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Still Time to Watch NYCB Digital Spring Season: BALLO DELLA REGINA & AFTER THE RAIN PAS DE DEUX [by Stacey Lehman]
In an ordinary year, my sister Amy and I would have been poring over the New York City Ballet catalogue in March to select which ballets to see in the coming month. We've been…
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J. Chester Johnson, Guest Author May 4-8
This week we welcome back poet and writer J. Chester Johnson as our guest author. Chester rew up one county removed from the Elaine Race Massacre site in southeast Arkansas along the Mississippi River…
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“Genuine Fakes” [by Rosalind Kolnikov]
Word reaches us of a competition organized by the editors of "Rococo Theory." Contestants need to complete the following sentence using exactly fifty-nine words: << The move from a structuralist account in which capital…
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Meet the Press: Free-Grace Press—A Conversation with Clifford Jackman
Dante Di Stefano: How did Free-Grace Press come into being? Clifford Jackman: Free-Grace Press was created because we wanted to publish books that are about using the readers imagination. Our books are sculpted art…
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Three Poems by Loren Goodman
from "The Common" (September 2016) Bear Safety If you see a bear: 1. Remain clam and avoid sudden movements.2. Back away slovenly. Avoid eye contact, and speak to the bear in a calm, high-pitched…
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“Black, Brown, and Beige”: Happy birthday, Duke Ellington
1.The horns say yes proceedAnd the sea delivers Nine waves of applauseBlack, brown, and beigeOr red, white, and blueAt Carnegie Hall in World War II 2.A couple of windsSing back and forth like birdsAs…
