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Auden on Vanity
<< A vain woman realizes that vanity is a sin, and in order not to succumb to temptation, has all the mirrors removed from her house. Consequently, in a short while she canot remember…
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Video: John Ashbery Reads From ‘Illuminations’
In May, Norton will release John Ashbery's translation of French poet Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem sequence, Illuminations, originally published in 1886. Click to see Ashbery read and discuss the poem "Promontory" at The New School on February 7,…
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LIT Magazine #19 Release Party
Click on it for the full details! Should be awesome!
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Belated Happy Birthday BAP Blog (How could I forget?) by Stacey Harwood
(Stacey (l) and David celebrating this blog's first year) We launched roughly three years ago (on January 17, 2008, to be exact), with this post. OK, so we haven't kept up with the monthly…
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Stevie Smith and Coleridge’s “Person from Porlock”
Stevie Smith [left] has a wonderful poem about the "person from Porlock" who came knocking on the door to sell Coleridge an insurance policy or something, and though he was in the middle of…
