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  • The Music Man [by Jamie Katz]

    May 12, 2017

    illustrations by Derek Heldenbergh There’s a delicious scene in the third season of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle in which Nico Muhly ’03, Juilliard’04, playing himself, introduces an aria he has composed expressly for…

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  • Emily Wore White [Collage by Bascove, poem by Emily Dickinson]

    May 12, 2017

    Emily Wore White: Dickinson’s A Spider sewed at Night, 2017, lace, thread, photographs, needles, drawing & collage, 20 1/2 x 54” (c) Bascove Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Loose sheets. A Spider sewed at Night.…

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  • Poem: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last evening [by David Lehman]

    May 8, 2017

    It was a first rate audiencein every sense. Jerome read first.His corporate sonnetsreflect years of labor that Marx would characterize asalienated in the tall tower of Time and Life on Sixth Avenue. There is…

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  • Sunday, May 7, 5-7 pm: Book Party for New Collections of Poems by David Lehman, Jerome Sala & David Shapiro

    May 5, 2017

    ZINC BARSunday, May 7th, 5-7PM82 W. 3rd StreetNYC Three poets read to celebrate their new books: David Lehman: Poems in the Manner of… (Scribner) David Lehman is the series editor of The Best American…

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Danny Rosen of Lithic Press and Adam Houle, Author of Stray

    May 5, 2017

    DD: How did Lithic Press come into being? DR: Before Lithic I was a geologist, an astronomer, and a teacher of earth and space science. Lithic means, pertaining to stone. Long before I became…

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  • Inconséquence in others, rebellionnessism, Macron, Le Pen, reasons, sentiments [by Paul Tracy Danison]

    May 5, 2017

    Too far from the Métro and with a diabolical entry code, this lawn, this house, are where the world gets remade Here’s an interesting French word: inconséquent. It means something like “frivolous” but implies…

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