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“I don’t do summer.”
I was tired and grumpy, and even the cool of my favorite around-the-corner-from-work-with-a-faculty-discount bistro was not up to the task of lifting my spirits. read more
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Blog New York
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
“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
A Garden of Inspiration
May 25, 2012
“While Socrates is pronouncing his subtle and solemn words, our eyes remain fastened on Athikte, while she read more
Tags: Andrew Seguin, Baudelaire, French Symbolists, Mallarme, Memorial Day, Monet, New York, New York Botanical Gardens, Paul Valery, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Rimbaud, summertime, Verlaine, Wallace Stevens
An Island in the City
May 14, 2012
Though it meant plenty of city driving to reach it, City Island fulfilled read more
Tags: Best American Poetry blog, boats, Bronx, City Island, Frost Lecture, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Nelson, May, Mother's Day, New York, Orchard Beach, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Sunday, Wanda Coleman
Negotiating Other Territories
May 6, 2012
PrayWay, by the artists Kraupa-Tuskany, Berlin, and The Third Line, Dubai, was part of the New Museum’s Triennial. read more
Tags: art, comment, commentary, evocation, hospitality, Koran, New Museum, New York, Perspective, PrayWay, provocation, religion, Samarkand, Tashkent, Triennial, Uzbekistan
On going
May 1, 2012
A highlight of blogging for Best American Poetry last week (see “This Be the Poet”) on the Poetry Society of America’s Larkin event at Cooper Union was the quick read more
Tags: Aaron Poochigian, Best American Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, food, Inquisitive Eater, John Berryman, New School, New York, Philip Larkin, poetry, Poetry Society of America, shared meals, tiny apartment, Vijay Seshadri
With Merwin in Mind
April 12, 2012
I am eating scrambled eggs Easter morning at the Waverly Diner on 6th avenue, when read more
Tags: Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, Easter, eggs, Galway Kinnell, New York, Oatmeal, Paris Review, poems, Shakespeare Garden, The New Museum, W.S. Merwin, Waverly Diner
Another reason to love NYC, and it involves the MTA
March 28, 2012
Also, of course, the Poetry Society of America. Terrific news read more
Tags: Alice Quinn, Dorothea Tanning, Jean Valentine, motion, MTA, New York, poetry, Poetry In Motion, Poetry Society of America, Sandra Bloodworth, subway riders, subways