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“I knew a guy once . . . ” The Bill Hayward / Marinov Dance / Redress Films “The Intimacies Project” [by Stacey Harwood]
©billhayward Is the audience for dance engaged in a kind of group voyeurism? What is really going on when we watch young and highly trained thoroughbreds push their bodies to unnatural extremes for our…
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Rick Moody, David Lehman on Bob Dylan, and . . . Cher? Wednesday, January 19, 7-9 PM. 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street New York, NY 2011
The back story: Once upon a time William G. Scheele, photographer and equipment/stage manager for The Band and Bob Dylan from 1969 to 1976, snapped a red-tinted picture of Dylan and The Band jamming with,…
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Three Interesting Things Happening in Poetryland (by Leslie McGrath)
I’m coming to the end of my guest blogging here and realize, despite some verrrrry long posts, that I’ve still got a list of ideas, trends and influences on poetry that I’ve not yet…
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Quote of the Day: Mary McCarthy
I heartily recommend Mary McCarthy's "Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man," one of the stories in The Company She Keeps. It's not nearly as well known as her "Man in the Brooks…
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“Nowhere” [by Herbert Engelhardt]
I woke upInto the beginningOf nowhere I walked outThrough the middleOf nowhere. I kept movingTo the endOf nowhere. — Herbert Engelhardt
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Battersea, Atheism, Russell, and Me [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I’ve missed you! It’s been almost a month since I last posted, I guess I needed a rest from even my pleasures. But here I am, back and ready to exhaust myself…
