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I first met Dennis Cooper in the late 1970s when he visited Philadelphia. He had heard the poetry scene in Philly was hopping and had come to check it out. He read at the Painted Bride if I remember. … Continue reading
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Wanda Phipps with Virlana Tkacz translated a timely play by the Ukrainian poet, Lesia Ukrainka, called Forest Song. Over the summer, a version of the play using other sources as well, A Thousand Suns, was performed by the Yara … Continue reading
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Arup Datta during the month of August did a lot of drawings of bicycles, but he began the month with rickshaws. So I’ll start there. Enjoy. “There are still some hand-pulled rickshaws in central … Continue reading
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Earlier this summer, just as the pandemic was easing up, and we could gather in crowds, out in the open air again, there was a poetry reading in Gowanus that I went to, right by the canal, a beautiful … Continue reading
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I just got to look at some art that I hadn’t seen before by Dan Freeman and am quite taken by it. I thought that I would share some here. Yellow and Purple Flowers; Apple pencil June 2021 … Continue reading