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Met Percent: Week Twenty [by Alec Bernstein]
Bellini, Raw Pork and Opium Left: Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, Giovanni Bellini, 1460s, not on view.Top: The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches, Henry Fuseli, 1796, gallery 633.Bottom: The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781, Detroit Institute…
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Soundtrack for “The Daily Mirror” [by Joshua Michael Stewart]
Joshua Michael Stewart has created a Spotify soundtrack for The Daily Mirror by David Lehman (Scribner, 2000). It includes Ella and Louis singing "Can't We Be Friends," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters accentuating…
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Dispatch From A Distance – Enter Geese [by Cara Benson]
There is a pond at the heart of the woods down multiple hills, over more ridges than I care to count, from the church where I now live. When I think of it, the…
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The “How To” of Eros [by Catherine Bowman]
Instructions. Audre Lorde in her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” writes “This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone,…
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“Sheltering at Home” [by John Koethe]
SHELTERING AT HOME But sometimes standing still is also life. John Ashbery I hate it—but then homeWas always a place to depart fromOr come back to, not a state of being in…
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Failing at Love 2.0 [by Nin Andrews]
I love this Sappho poem of pure jealousy. I love the “kindled the flesh along my arms/ and smothered me in its smoke-blind rush.” I’m just realizing that many of my favorite poems celebrate…
