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Song of the Week: “Joe Harper Saturday Morning” by Van Morrison

Van Morrison was born with sixteen red hairs damply coiled on a chest already barrel-thick. His urine smelled of peat. His father said if he ran too fast, his soul would lag behind his body, exposing him to danger in the form of timber trucks and falcons. His mother read to him from the epics of Ossian while four winds …

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Just Saying

by Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press 2013
Reviewed by John Deming

“a metaphor / for sensation” 

When Roger Ebert died three weeks ago, I felt compelled to go back and read some of his old reviews of some of my favorite movies. In his review of Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters, Ebert has an insight about the Allen character, Mickey: “his constant complaint is that it’s all very well for these

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Snapshot: Amy Lawless

I first met  Amy Lawless in 2005. She had recently moved to New York City from Boston and I from Portland. We were both entering the MFA program at The New School. It was exciting and terrifying in all the best ways. Post-graduation…

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Lana Del Rey, Welcome to the Party by Alex Dimitrov

 

Keith Haring thought of his life as a party. Every person has their own. Who you invite allows for who you become. It doesn’t matter who you are before coming or what happens after you leave, after taking everything …

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