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Tulsas billionaire philanthropist talks about his teen years of the late 1950s Tulsa and other favorite things.

Border Crossings presents issue 164 on Art & Poetics.

UNIVERSALIZING HISTORIANS have given the newspaper comic strip a distinguished pedigree as the twentieth-century descendant of sacred Egyptian hieroglyphics. True or not, no classic strip was better suited to embellish the inner sanctum of Pharaoh Tut’s tomb than Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running tot saga Nancy. 

Martha Diamond, a painter’s painter who captured the endlessly changing face of New York’s buildings, streets and light-filled vistas with d

Martha Diamond, a painter of New York skyscrapers as filtered through her own subjective lens, has died at 79.

Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, cast a strong influence over younger painters but did not gain broad public recognition until late in her life.

“Katz has always been fascinated by poetry, and especially by the work that came out of the New York School in the fifties and sixties.”

We haven't finished the first 100 days of President Trump, but the Arts & Style section of Sunday's Washington Post publicized the mourning of sensitive liberal poets for the last president. The headline was "An ode to Obama: Haiku from writers working in pairs forges links in a chain of celebratory poetry." The Harvard Review, a literary journal, is publishing a chain of over 200 poets (working in pairs) working in a traditional Japanese form of poetry called a renga.

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The a href= http://themorgan.org target= _blank Morgan Library & Museum /a is currently presenting Blaise Cendrars (1887– 1961): Poetry Is Ev