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Music Review: Robert Paterson and American Modern Ensemble - The Four Seasons Sign In Jon Sobel, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail As one of the most celebrated present-day American composers, Robert Paterson does not fear the shadow of a luminous predecessor like Antonio Vivaldi. Patersons new album The Four Seasons is the culmination of a 20-year project comprising four song cycles, one for each of our earthly seasons. The prolific composer set texts by well-known poets - Edna St. Vincen...

Basalt creeks the volcanic province builds difference into silence buzzing the ravines with the Great Wall of thought so that even the currents of air sculpt the shape the water makes holds all its early information in stones and sound of water over creekstone lava done the way flow talks that little hidden fender of itself to measure whatever’s in the way not a mistake just a fissure an isolated vent where the water will find around the rocks intentional waves an invert floor of floating ...

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from...

A grandson of a man who survived the Holocaust takes up his fight to reclaim a family building in Poland. The journey is arduous, vexing, poignant — and bizarre.

Menachem Kaiser writes about his efforts to reclaim an apartment building in Poland that his family owned before the war.

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Jagjaguwar Celebrates 25th Anniversary with JAG25, Year-Long Campaign of Collaboration & Community Jag Quarterly Begins with Dilate Your Heart, New Album Featuring Poetry by Ross Gay & Music by Bon Iver, Mary Lattimore, Angel Bat Dawid, Gia Margaret, Sam Gendel JAG25 Four-Part Series Continues Through 2021 with Contributions From Lonnie Holley, Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten, Many More to Be Announced OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Shore Fire Media ...

** Lannie Stabile  (she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry; the winning chapbook, Strange Furniture, is out with Neon Hemlock Press. She is also a back-to-back finalist for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Glass Chapbook Series and back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 and 2019 Chapbook Contests. Lannie currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. Find her on Twitte...

Share: Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper Diarmuid Hester The idea of a transgressive writer is a bit hard to fathom in the current moment, but that’s precisely what Dennis Cooper was. In the 1980s and ’90s, he rose to counterculture fame with his brilliant, d...

The title of Chris Hutchinson’s fourth book of poetry, In the Vicinity of Riches, suggests that, though the riches of late capitalism may seem to be within reach, we are irrevocably distanced from them. To be alive during the Anthropocene is to suffer like Tantalus, the Greek mythological figure for whom food and drink were placed just beyond grasp––except as a species, our dilemma isn’t so much lacking access to abundance, but rather how to manage our riches in a way that would ensure...