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  • Figuring liberation: Margaux Amoros’ “À Cru” [By Tracy Danison]

    October 26, 2023

    “À Cru” dance performance by Margaux Amoros. Photo © Isabelle Chemin … Ton message à la Grande Ourse/Et la trajectoire de la course/Un instantané de velours…     - Noir Désir, “Le Vent Nous Portera” I’m…

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  • Comparing Poets to Dogs [by Nin Andrews]

    October 25, 2023

    Last week I mentioned that I often compare poets to dogs. I received a few emails asking me to elaborate. So I want to ask, Am I the only one who thinks this way?…

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  • Wednesdays with Denise: Richard Blanco’s “Homeland of My Body”

    October 25, 2023

    Richard Blanco’s Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems was published yesterday by Beacon Press. The book includes a generous sampling of his four previous collections bookended, so to speak, by two sections…

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  • In Memory of Kent Johnson, poet and crazy activist of the imagination (1955 – Oct. 25, 2022)

    October 25, 2023

    8 / 29 / 20 From “Because of Poetry” / by  John Bradley A review in Sulfur of Kent Johnson’s rambunctious and defiant new book, Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House (Shearsman Books,…

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  • “Like a Monkey” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    October 24, 2023

    I had not written a poem for decades. Then at a re-union of old poets of Columbia University I was mysteriously inspired. In my alter ego of the AK-47 carrying Kalashnikover Rebbe, I had…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-One): Chris Nealon [by Angela Ball]

    October 24, 2023

    WAIT A MINUTE Clear pink sky at 7 a.m.—or mostly clear— You can’t rush spring but your body has big plans Hey now, get back in here! All your senses mobbing their gates like…

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