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In December 1989, I went to Town Hall for the ten-year reunion concert of Cecil Taylor and Max Roach, revisiting and renewing their historic live performance at Columbia University. That first concert was released as Historic Concerts in 1984 on the Soul Note label. The concert is one of those musical experiences permanently embedded in my memory, the shape and feeling of literally ducking down behind the seat in front of me because the torrent of onrushing ideas was overwhelming and seemed a little dangerous still vivid in my body.

The most intense recent experience I’ve had writing poetry was composing a piece called “People Without Names,” a long poem recently published in Eileen Myles’s Pathetic Literature anthology (Grove Press, 2023). I wrote it in January 2021, still living in Alphabet City during the endlessness of the global pause.

The Portuguese guitarist Rafael Toral first made his presence resonate around three decades ago, with a sequence of naked guitar extensions, durational pieces that suspended themselves somewhere across the ambient music spectrum.

Two musical works ask us to consider what sound hides and silence reveals.

Fictional and true-crime murders, past and present, and a journey into gourmet cooking come from three Minnesota authors who are reading this week.