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Tag Archives: Brown University
Age, Relatives, Lo-Lee-Ta
My dad used to say, at age 65, I still haven’t decided what I want to be when I grow up. My daughter used to say, around age 5, I miss my childhood. Traveling in their heads, forward, backward, time moving … Continue reading
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Tagged age is relative, Brown University, childhood, Imagination, Lolita, moving in, Nabokov, new semester, nostalgia, September
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RITES OF MAY
The RITES OF MAY to Don DeLillo The tail end of a violent semester parents rush in with their Suburbans a mixed bag of doubled emotions Living next to Brown I see the flying styrofoam pitched by mother in a … Continue reading
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Tacos, Baskets, Emanuel Ax
To stage a happening, you put unfamiliar elements together and see what happens. Put a classical superstar pianist like Emanuel Ax in a taqueria like La Lupita, in the Spanish Olneyville neighborhood of Providence. Let it rip. In he walks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ax Residency, Brown University, classical pianist, Community MusicWorks, Emanuel Ax, La Lupita, Sebastian Ruth, Westside Community Center
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This poem came about after hearing Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident who spent nine years in jail, and Michael Douglas, the American movie star, speak recently about their Jewish pasts. Anti-Israel students were shouting outside the hall at Brown … Continue reading
SAFE HOUSE FOR POETRY
Two men are fighting a duel, or a knife fight. A third person, a woman, sees the men about to kill each other and rushes in to save her lover. She wraps her loving arms around her man. But now … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown University, Claudia Rankine, contemporary poetry, Joshua Mehigan, Kahlil Gibran, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman
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The Artist’s I becomes YOU
Artist Orly Genger must have had fun with the word play of her large-scale site-specific sculpture at Brown University. It is a U shape, and she calls it YOU. If you’re a college student passing by, you might not recognize … Continue reading
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