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Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Lera Auerbach and David Lehman reading at KGB Bar 7:00 PM. Free
KGB Bar: 85 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003 Renowned Russian-American composer, writer, visual artist and concert pianist Lera Auerbach will be reading from Excess of Being,…
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Art’s Lessons, Filtered Through Verse [by David Lehman]
‘Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1560s), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder—the focus of Auden’s final stanza. PHOTO: ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM Of the many memorable poems about paintings and…
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Mystification, mystery & Mystery: Who is Sequana, who whacked her and why I am forever ruined [by Paul Tracy Danison]
A brother of mine once had a striking dream in which we were both dancing a Waltz in a Viennese ballroom. As my partner and I whirled past, my brother told me, he cried…
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Friday the 13th [by David Lehman]
It’s Friday the 13th and I wonder how the superstition got started. I’d always thought it was because there were thirteen diners at the Last Supper but I recently saw a documentary about the…
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Snake Handling and Confessional Poetry [by Nin Andrews]
In my last post, I compared confessional writing to snake handling and taxidermy, pointing out that taxidermy is like writing about the dead, while snake handling is like writing about the living. I left the…
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Propagation of the Species (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Dearest Bleaders, So, yeah. As I keep sort of explaining. There's this photographer Reuben Radding whom I only know online, through our dear mutual friend Yvany Peery. He posted one of his photos, an…
