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Video from the Dean Young Benefit [by Amy Lawless]
Dude, did you go to the Dean Young Benefit? I didn't either. So put down your self-flagellation devices and click this link that will transport you over to Coldfront where D.J. Dolack had the…
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Sneak Peek: Augury Books is co-curating an evening of poetry at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. 150 W. 17 St., NYC 10011 @ 7:00 PM
Indiana power plant after flood, 1913. Photograph by DJ Angus. Poets Kimiko Hahn, Saskia Hamilton, Noelle Kocot, David Lehman, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Stacy Szymaszek read poems by themselves and others on the themes of absence, emptiness, and…nothing. Here’s a poem…
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The Evening Got a Bit Fuzzy . . .
after our host, the Robert Burns scholar and The Balvenie Distillery ambassador Andrew Weir (below left) declaimed Burns' "Address to a Haggis": What I do remember is this: The outside temp was in the…
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Things Ben Mirov Thinks are Rad: Post 2 of ???
I feel like there are always "best albums of the summer," or a "best track of the summer". I like to have a best album of the winter. Mainly because I stay indoors, huddled…
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A Longing for World Culture: On “Joseph Brodsky, A Literary Life” by Lev Loseff (review by Andrey Gritsman)
The Joseph Brodsky “story” is still close to us. It feels he died just yesterday, and we remain in contact with him not through six degrees of separation but through one handshake. Every more…
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Sick of Winter (by Laura Orem)
January Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derision outside my window: Play louder. You will not succeed. I am bound more to my sentences the more you batter…
