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A Lucky Death: My Struggle with Beginnings and Ends (by Nin Andrews)
Above is a recent self-portrait after a day of writing — or of writing frustration. So I want to ask…
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Igor Stravinsky: “I surround myself with obstacles . . . “
Albert Gleizes, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1914, Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 114.3 cm. Muséum of Modern Art Collection "My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have…
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Whispering Poems in Beds All Over the World: The Poetry Brothel on Tour [by Nora Brooks]
It’s early in the evening at the Poetry Brothel, and the Madame, aka the poet Stephanie Berger, is introducing the line-up of poetry whores: writers dressed in corsets and fishnets, or waistcoats that could…
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Lera Auerbach and David Lehman reading at KGB Bar 7:00 PM. Free
KGB Bar: 85 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003 Renowned Russian-American composer, writer, visual artist and concert pianist Lera Auerbach will be reading from Excess of Being,…
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Art’s Lessons, Filtered Through Verse [by David Lehman]
‘Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1560s), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder—the focus of Auden’s final stanza. PHOTO: ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM Of the many memorable poems about paintings and…
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Mystification, mystery & Mystery: Who is Sequana, who whacked her and why I am forever ruined [by Paul Tracy Danison]
A brother of mine once had a striking dream in which we were both dancing a Waltz in a Viennese ballroom. As my partner and I whirled past, my brother told me, he cried…
