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“A History of Modern Poetry” [by David Lehman, chosen by George Bilgere]
Here’s a poem for today, September 17, 2025 A History of Modern Poetry by David Lehman The idea was to have a voice of your own, distinctive, sounding like nobody else’s The result was…
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Frank Kermode’s Library: The Sense of an Ending
From The New Yorker, November 7, 2011, this aside by James Wood in his meditation on personal libraries — his exploration of the notion that they are, at least in some cases, expressions of vanity: <<I…
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Their bright materials: cie Scuola della Crisi’s apex performance-theater work [By Tracy Danison]
“Materia Prima”. Photo © Diane Line Farré & Matthieu Baquey Materia Prima, a performance-theater piece fresh from creation-residence at Théâtre de l’Aquarium, left me profoundly shaken. Moved, I mean. Materia Prima works as performance. It…
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Phishing for Poets [by Nin Andrews]
Now that AI has taken over, I seem to be getting more and more of these phishing emails, and they are quite funny. I wouldn't think much of it, except for the sad fact…
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On the occasional pleasure of email: Prix Viviane Esders for photography [By Tracy Danison]
“Tageslichte 67” (Daylight 67), 2017 © Dörte Eissfeldt Opening the email, I am subjugué – good word, wrapping together “convinced”, “under the spell” – by the art in the photographic creation of the three…
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Greg Delanty: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ A Routine Cleaning So, I’m in with my Hindu dental nurse, Kavita. She puts on the surgical gloves and lines up the implements (I think Nazi dentist, Sir Laurence Olivier, about to take…
