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“If you’re going to be a writer, you need to know everything.” – An interview with poet, art critic, and professor Bill Berkson on the occasion of the publication of his new book of poetry, ‘Expect Delays,’ (his 21st).
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‘Matted Grass’
Whiskey sour breath,
a vermillion trance
borne of carbon molecules and
plywood backbones.
In “The Least Silent of Men,” Souto uses his hindsight on a 30 day vow of silence to fashion an engrossing and enjoyable meditation on speech’s relationship to our consciousness.
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The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night to a packed audience with an evening of provocative and stirring talks by world famous authors, including Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky and Sofi Oksanen. Held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the same venue Lincoln gave his famous “right makes might” anti-slavery address, one could sense some of the same momentous urgency in the air.
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