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“Borges and the Camels” [by Bruce F. Kawin]
for John Ashbery Two stories from the mid-1960s. (1) When I was an English major at Columbia, I took a creative writing course from Kenneth Koch, who changed my life. Actually it was a…
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“STOP Window” [by Susan Gunter]
Susan E. Gunter is a professor, Henry James scholar, poet, and watercolor artist. She began painting eight years ago, working from her own photographs and using just three colors: Windsor blue, alizarin crimson,…
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“We just do what we have to do.” When tedious work is pleasurable [by Stacey Lehman]
Face masks, ready to be washed before inserting ties. This was supposed to be the season of sewing my summer wardrobe. I'd picked the patterns and purchased the fabric to make breezy cotton dresses,…
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On Lawrence Fixel’s “Flight Patterns” [by Peter Johnson]
In the history of the American prose poem from 1965 onward, I would argue that one writer and one collection stands above the others. The writer is Lawrence Fixel, and the collection is Truth, War, and the Dream-Game: Selected Prose…
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“Two Portraits of the Poet” [by Ricky Mujica]
Paintings c 2020 Ricky Mujica.Click here for more information: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ricky-mujica-poet-david-lehman