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Wayfinding John Ashbery: Remarks from an Evening with AshLab [By Nora Brooks]
Last fall, I enrolled in a literature seminar in the New School writing program unlike any literature class I’ve ever taken: the AshLab. The project of the class involved contributing to creative and scholarly…
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The Moorman Symposium: A New Tradition: New York School Poetry and the South
Frank O'Hara exits the Museum of Modern Art in NYC Why bring New York School poetry to the University of Southern Mississippi? Because, in a sense, it’s already here. Named for the New York…
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Day Three of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Sestina)”
The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Sestina) Reader,you hatesestinas?Readthese. Take a chance:show up, see the show.Gentle reader,give them a chance,redress your hatreds:readno more sestinas if these sestinasfail to showhow rewarding a readthey are. Reluctant reader,although you…
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Sesame Seed Lamps, The Wasteland’s Worth, and Your Mom [by Nick Courtright]
A cursory news media analysis of positive stories versus negative ones makes it no wonder we consistently feel a sense of doom about the state of the world, even though telling metrics like air…
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“Because I Said So”: Review of Alan Ziegler at The New School Poetry Forum with David Lehman [By Nora Brooks]
Since 1978, when Mark Strand was denied a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book The Monument on the grounds that the poems were not in verse, prose poetry has fought a battle—which it…
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Archie Rand at Rhombus Space
Archie Rand, “July” from “The Months” series by Archie Rand 2011. Acrylic, enamel, chalk, charcoal, appliqué on fabric, 26 x 70” Rhombus Space is pleased to present Thought Bubbles, an exhibition featuring Archie Rand’s…
