A poem worth pondering, chosen in a time bearing witness to the invasion and destruction of our institutions. In the essay collection The Witness of Poetry (1983), Milosz stresses the importance of Poland's cultural heritage and history in shaping his work. “My corner...

Into my seventh decade as a published author/editor/critic. Books and little magazines and manuscripts and photographs and ephemera on the 3rd floor have been building up, containing multitudes. It feels like forever that I've been talking to friends and family about...

Friday afternoon, February 21 2025 - In the 11th floor rehearsal studio, inundated by Hunter Johnson's invasive score, bearing witness to the Martha Graham ensemble unspooling this episodic quasi-narrative under the impeccable guidance of Blakeley White-McGuire and...

Tuesday evening, January 27th, 2025 - in the Studio at 115 Wooster Street - I was invited by Samantha Geracht to sit quietly (as always) and lend "another pair of eyes" to a rehearsal for Charles Weidman's seven-minute epic, the 1936 Lynchtown to be presented on...

Half a century ago, when I was living in Buffalo, N.Y., having labored for a PhD in Modern American Poetry, I launched a "little magazine" (as we called them back then) The Niagara Magazine, that I edited and published for eight years. The Premier Issue, Summer 1974,...

Reading Paul Auster's obituary this morning in The New York Times, I recall him as a gifted, elegant, cosmopolitan comrade and writer in the late 1970s, when my wife and I were starting a new life in Brooklyn Heights and Paul came over to our place for Roberta's...

Wednesday evening, April 17th - Martha Graham - When Dance Became Modern front and center at the Company's merchandise stand in City Center lobby.

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