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Lost Poem For Another Princess

Amadeo Modigliani. Nude on a Blue Cushion. 1917. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ms. Modigliani ransacked her archive in search of a poem we could remember but couldn’t recite. She found this one instead. I won’t forget it now. … Continue reading






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Ransacking The Archive: Sobruquet

My mother asked me once why I didn’t invite her to my poetry readings. “My poems talk about sex and drugs and things I’d be embarrassed to say in front of my mother,” I said sheepishly. She nailed me with … Continue reading






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Fashionista Street: Arachnophilia 1

[Photo by Bill Cunningham/NYT] Bill Cunningham’s latest On The Street photo essay returns to Paris. “Many members of the fashion world at the recent Paris shows,” he says, “seemed to pay homage to the look of a Louise Bourgeois spider … Continue reading






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Ransacking The Archive: San Francisco 1990

Every poem asks the question, what is a poem? A prose poem seeks the boundary between the modes. I don’t have an answer, but this one pointed me in the direction I wanted to go. San Francisco 1990 On the … Continue reading






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Ransacking The Archive: Letter to Tom Roberts

This was written for Tom on the August night in 1975 when the world learned of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich. Letter to Tom Roberts I stopped reading books. Is that possible? My eyes hurt. My doctor says there are … Continue reading






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