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Poetry, Art, Music, Performance—wherever the various arts intersect/collide

 Ann Arbor, MI
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Joined March 2009
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Thank you to @parisreview for letting me think about Joshua through my elegy for him: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…
Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light” by Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light” by Geoffrey G. O’Brien

October 16, 2026 – “I didn’t intend to write a poem, and if you’d asked me if I wanted to, I would have said no.”

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Amazing piece! You'll find an in-depth discussion of it here on Essay Daily: essaydaily.org/2015/07/
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I have a friendly disposition but am forgetful, though I tend to forget only important things. —John Ashbery, from “A Nice Presentation”
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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/…
Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 (Gift Article)

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 (Gift Article)

Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. —G.K. Chesterton, from "A Piece of Chalk"
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New neighbors living under the back door awning
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Wallace Stevens’s poem “Of Mere Being” contemplates the great unknown. . . Commentary by A O Scott: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts. (Gift Article)

What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts. (Gift Article)

A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.”

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Ha! Many years ago, I lived above a yoga/dance studio, where a folk dance group met every Sunday evening. For 3 long hours, they stomped and clapped in odd time signatures, taking my "sunday scaries" to another level!
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address— source of "of the people, by the people, for the people"—is 272 words long and took a skinny 2 minutes to deliver.
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"At the Movies with John Ashbery" An essay by John Yau: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…
At the Movies with John Ashbery by John Yau

At the Movies with John Ashbery by John Yau

February 10, 2026 – “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”

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Froggy begs for belly rubs while I'm doing yoga
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“Then I just stopped listening to everybody, and everybody stopped talking to me,” she said. “I was getting very little feedback.” nytimes.com/2026/01/01/arts/…
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When a flood damaged years’ worth of artworks kept in storage, Sophie Calle decided to embrace the decay. Art21 goes underground to attend the funeral for Calle's pieces.
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Brueghel the painter concerned with it all has chosen a winter-struck bush for his foreground to complete the picture —William Carlos Williams share.google/tida1CKRM3rbDP1…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) The Hunters in the Snow, 1565
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William Carlos Williams on this painting
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Robert Louis Stevenson with a thoughtful New Year's resolution:
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More wisdom from Stevenson's New Year's/Christmas essay: "There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself."
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"Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much":—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed."
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"We are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well. Here is a pleasant thought for the year’s end or for the end of life. Only self-deception will be satisfied…"
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RLS's New Year's Eve reflections on the difficulty of being human: "Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others."
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