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Satire, Stars, and Protest: A Conversation with Paul Fericano [by Emma Trelles]
Paul Fericano is a working class poet, satirist and social activist. He is the author of The Hollywood Catechism (Silver Birch Press) and several more poetry and prose books and chapbooks, including Interview with the Scalia, Commercial…
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“Did You Once See Shelley Plain?” [by Jeffrey Meyers]
During the last sixty years I have taken every opportunity to see and hear famous writers. I took notes on their appearance and performance, and their readings have always helped me to understand their…
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Thomas Devaney interviews the late Bill Berkson for the “Brooklyn Rail”
Devaney/Rail: Earlier today you said “something something, baby” and were kind of charting a geography of a tone: connecting a sound in Virgil Thomson’s voice, which you said Frank O’Hara was picking up on. Did…
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Matthew Zapruder on Ashbery’s “The One Thing That Can Save America”
<<< On the cover of this pocket-sized edition of John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, the poet stands in a doorway. He wears the somehow simultaneously ill-advised and completely stylish ensemble of a half-unbuttoned…
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The Beautiful One Has Arrived (by Mitch Sisskind)
The seeming impossibility of the Great PyramidEngendered in him such contempt for peopleThat he chose isolation lest he start screamingHow petty and foolish were their vaingloriousAccomplishments compared to even a single Miraculous fact about the…
