NYC Readings Roundup :: May 6 – 12
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COMMUNITY :: LAUNCHPAD BK :: Mozzarella Making Class May 4th @ 1pm
May 4th @ 1pm Mozzarella Making Class The Campania Region in Italy is known for its beautiful water buffalo milk pasta filata cheese: mozzarella. Although the water buffalo is a rare entity in the U.S., we can make the most of
NYC Readings Roundup :: APRIL 23-28
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2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 22 :: MATT LONGABUCCO on RENÉ RICARD
I recently showed my students a few scenes from Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat, and while prepping the class the night before wound up watching the whole movie, for the amazing soundtrack and outfits, sure, but also for the endlessly appealing fable
2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 18 :: ELIZA SWANN ON BERNADETTE MAYER
Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Thoughts On Bernadette Mayer When I think about Bernadette Mayer I think about flowers, I think about fucking, I think about a good joke. I think about children. I think about words like propagate, roseate, generate,
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NYC Readings Roundup :: April 15-21
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2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 14 :: DONNA FLEISCHER on LORI DESROSIERS
And Never Look Back: On Lori Desrosiers’ “Three Vanities” Not since Edward Field’s 1964 book of poems Stand Up, Friend, With Me, have I read a narrative voice formidable, tender, and singular as that of Lori Desrosiers in Three Vanities. These
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 4 :: FARZANA MARIE ON MIKHAIL, CARPENTER, AZZIZADA and POETRY IN SOCIAL CONFLICT
How does poetry grapple with the conflicts and social issues of our time? What can a poem do in the face of rocket-thuds, choking smoke, a child’s pink sandal in a blood-pool on the street? Can it find meaning in
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 3 :: RYAN NOWLIN on NORMA COLE
Norma Cole, an experimental poet and visual artist who has lived in the Bay Area since 1977, has received great acclaim for, as she puts it, her “openness to traditions and practices, artists and writings, radically divergent from her own.”