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“My son’s illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others.” read more
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Blog New York
In Play and Four Women
April 29, 2013
Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim exhibit of post-war Japanese art from the Gutai group that closes May 8th, includes TANAKA Atsuko’s “Electric Dress”, 1956, read more
Tags: Atsuko Tanaka, Brenda Hillman, Fun, Guggenheim, Gutai Art, Lucille Clifton, Play, Sarah Sarai, serious fun
Caught
April 17, 2013
Street, at the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibit that features an hour-long video by James Nares edited from 16 hours read more
Tags: Berenice Abbott, experience, Giacometti, James Nares, looking, NC, New York, Southern Pines, Spring
Klee & Montale at year’s end
December 28, 2012
Paul Klee’s Old Man Counting is on view at the Met through read more
Tags: art, countdown, creativity, Inner Forces, Klee, Montale, New Year, Old Man Counting
“All those stories looking down on me”
October 30, 2012
Waking the Morning After Sandy — with Bonnie Raitt’s lyrics and Denise Levertov’s poem. read more
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Denise Levertov, Hurricane Sandy, local heroes, morning, New York
As if your life depended on it
October 15, 2012
I am afraid Iran will launch nuclear weapons and Israel will in response — this from a doctor on the UWS, read more
Tags: Adrienne Rich, Argo, Ben Affleck, Charles Baxter, Clifford Garstang, death, Dodge Poetry Festival, entertainment, Felice Aull, John Brehm, John Lane, movies, Natasha Tretheway, politics, Rilke, Ron Rash, Thomas Lux, Thomas Lynch, writing
There I was told:
August 23, 20121 comment
In a bookstore on Broadway, behind towering stacks that bring to mind bookstores past (and some present) and in front of a large clear window, read more
Tags: Carol Peters, Catallus, Cecil Day Lewis, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Harryette Mullen, James Wright, John Ashbery, John Donne, Laura Riding, Lisa Robertson, Marianne Moore, Maureen McLane, poetry, Wallace Stevens, William Wordsworth
David Rakoff
August 10, 2012
We were just beginning our 10 a.m. workshop here in Lake Lure, NC, opening our web browsers to download the morning’s submissions, when the email came from the friend who had been keeping me posted on David Rakoff’s battle with cancer. read more
Tags: David Rakoff, friends, inspiration, intelligence, kindness, mentors, remembering, wit, writers, writing
A morning’s walk
July 30, 2012
It’s a warm Monday, the last Monday in July. The relative cool, a surge of energy — perhaps caffeine — sends me read more
Tags: coffee shops, ferris wheel, Manhattan, neighborhood, New York City, Upper West Side, urban living, whetstone