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  • Great photo from Vivienne Maier [chosen by the late Robert Harbison]

    May 31, 2025

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  • Two Sonnets [Mitch Sisskind’s Latest from “The Bonus Round”]

    May 30, 2025

        Kant Means Can’t Kenneth Koch said that if something isn'tWorking in a poem then do it more, likeIf the word subtrahend isn't workingThen keep using the word subtrahendAnd naturally the word minuend…

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  • Zoltan Farkas: The Baltimore Poems [Terence Winch]

    May 30, 2025

      ONCE LOST, BUT FOUND AGAIN On February 22, 2018, I got an email from the poet Zoltan Farkas, someone I hadn’t heard from in more than 40 years. Here’s what he wrote:    …

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  • June Events 2025: diverse singularity in cultural continuity [By Tracy Danison]

    May 30, 2025

    “Electrotap", music to look at, dance to listen to by Candice Martel. Photo © Marc Plantec What can dance do? It’s hard to say. But as, even in his precociously Victorian stiffness, Mr. Darcy knew…

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  • Flaubert’s Maxims

    May 29, 2025

    “[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows;…

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  • The Argument [by Aaron Belz]

    May 27, 2025

    The Argument I came at you like an off-duty sanitation worker.“Where the hell is that stack of prescriptions I left on the counter?”You replied not unlike a colloquium of professorshedging their bets. “It’s in…

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