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  • Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley leave the Ballet de Lorraine: how to say goodbye good [By Tracy Danison]

    November 15, 2024

    “CRWDSPCR” by Merce Cunningham, v. Jacobsson/Caley 2024. Photo © Ronan Muller, CCN-Ballet de Lorraine Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley are leaving the Ballet de Lorraine at the end of 2024, so on 6 November…

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  • An Interview with Grace Cavalieri [by Nin Andrews]

    November 14, 2024

    NA: As you know, I’m a huge fan of your work—your poems, paintings, interviews, memoir, plays. Sometimes, when I can’t remember how to write or what to ask in an interview, I will google…

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  • “Ulysses” and The Gettysburg Address — Great Poems of the World, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind

    November 12, 2024

    Ulyssesby Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race,…

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  • Rick Barot: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    November 10, 2024

          _______________________________________________________ A Poem as Long as California    This is my pastoral: the used car lot where someone read Song of Myself over the loudspeaker   all that afternoon, to customers…

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  • What a swell party this is!

    November 9, 2024

     

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  • “Zaftig” [by David Lehman]

    November 8, 2024

    Zaftig The word means fleshy in a sensual, feminine way though sometimes it just means extra-large. It’s a word you may not know if you’re not from New York but from the heartland,  the prairie,…

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