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Ashley Chen gives performance a dramatic rush [by Tracy Danison ]
Photo: ©PatrickBerger Three minutes into the performance of Ashley Chen’s dance performance piece Rush, he’s got you very pleasurably scrambling to make sense of it – wanting to rush along with him, wanting to…
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Welcome to Ashberyland!
Welcome to Ashberyland! a digital theme park of exclamatory pedagogy where YOU get to read the poems and judge them and pick out the ones you like the most while the ghost of Ashbery…
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Next Line, Please: The Trope of a Nation [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's prompt involved a game of "reverse scrabble," in which players found as many words as they could from the main word, "operation," and then used these words in a poem. Now one…
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Poet Spotlight: Brenna Womer [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Brenna Womer is a prose writer and poet in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and an MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition as well as serves as an…
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Poet Spotlight: Laurie Sheck [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Born and raised in the Bronx, poet Laurie Sheck was educated at the University of Iowa. She has published several collections of poetry, including Captivity (2007); The Willow Grove (1996), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Amaranth (1981). Her…
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Aurélien Bory’s “Ash” mixes cutting edge performance, fine esthetics [by Tracy Danison]
undefined With dancer Shantala Shivalingappa and musician Loïc Schild’s fascinating performance of choreographer and scenographer Aurélien Bory’s Ash, La Scala-Paris continues developing a trademark tone and style, mixing cutting edge contemporary performance with a…
