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Bring on the cozy days of curling up on the couch with a book. Booksellers from Woodstock...

“Imagine you must survive without running,” Ada Limón writes in one of The Carrying’s (Milkweed) early poems, and for a while I can imagine nothing but that. But then, a few pages later, she writes, “Perhaps we are always hurtling our bodies toward/ the thing that will obliterate us . . .” and I think, yes, I imagine that is also true. On and on this book goes, making me imagine the world in one way and then another. Consider her poem “American Pharoah,” in which the speaker is ...

Living Rubble by Sarah Walker With how chilly it was last week, it’s hard to believe we’re almost through with April. Here’s to the increasingly warmer spring temps—and these excellent events and attractions to go along with them. “Selective Logic” Group Art Show in Newburgh | through May 23 Currently on view at Holland Tunnel Gallery in Newburgh is “Selective Logic,” an exhibition of works by Sarah Walker, Mark Gibian, and Joel Carreir...