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  • Hybrids Are Not Evil

    October 14, 2016

                  You might be forgiven for thinking they are – hybrids have been blamed for everything from the lack of diversity our food system to the fall of civilization (I jest). Specifically, they…

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  • Nobel Prize, but famous long ago…. (by Mitch Sisskind)

    October 13, 2016

     Everything about this album cover was so exquisitely congruent with the historical  moment! I recall seeing it for the first time: the slush, the girl, her boots, and most  especially the VW van. Bob as a specific identity…

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  • For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Alexandra Lytton Regalado

    October 13, 2016

    Guadalupe, acrylic on wood, by Sylvia Ji                                       she broods in her pen:      LA GALLINA…

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  • Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature (by Lawrence J. Epstein)

    October 13, 2016

    The day after Jack Kerouac’s funeral, I was sitting around a table of Beat writers. Allen Ginsberg was across from me. Gregory Corso and I were discussing the merits of various writers. I then…

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  • The Growing Season [by Sonja Johanson]

    October 13, 2016

      From a drought, a year that has died, Gone down into deadness.                              — William Everson             Everson’s writing is lush and provocative, but he got autumn wrong.  Far from being a season…

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  • Take a look: “Decals of Desire” New Online Magazine of Art and Poetry

    October 12, 2016

    Concert (2015) collage (c) John Ashbery We're excited to announce the first issue of a new online magazine of art and poetry: Decals of Desire. The founding editor is British artist and poet Rupert…

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