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Jim Henson Memorial – Jim’s Favorite Songs

I’M NOT CRYING

Posted byaidarendsNovember 27, 2022Posted inLit Review, Music BlogLeave a comment on Jim Henson Memorial – Jim’s Favorite Songs

play pretend

i have a fun game we can playpretend you love me, i’ll pretend tooand we can pretend we’re gonna livelove forever and forever just pretend the older i get the more farce i recognize but i know that’s what between us is realso let’s pretend we love each otherand just keep on pretending

Posted byaidarendsNovember 25, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on play pretend

Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)

Sad news to have to impart, the death of a beloved poet, word-master and word-mistress, Bernadette Mayer, who, at aged 77,  passed away peacefully in her home last night.   A huge loss. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family (who were there with her) and to her many many friends. — Read on allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/

Posted byaidarendsNovember 23, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)

tonight

i will wear my dancing shoesput on my rose quartzbecause i’m not afraidof the heaviness of love

Posted byaidarendsNovember 19, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on tonight

joke

my favorite author wrote a book about the metaphysiology of writing, i haven’t read it yet but i have a feeling it’s gonna be good

Posted byaidarendsNovember 19, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on joke

Under the Hood

A sanitized Philip Guston retrospective tries so hard not to offend that it skirts around the most interesting aspect of Guston’s work: his meditations on the American Jewish relationship to anti-Black violence. — Read on jewishcurrents.org/under-the-hood

Posted byaidarendsNovember 19, 2022Posted inLit Review, Newsletter and UpdatesLeave a comment on Under the Hood

like fishing

this is the mind of a woman on the edge of her seat this is the mind of a woman reeling and waiting like fishing this is the mind of a woman on the edge of her seat going slowly, going slowly, going slowly this is the mind of a woman on the edge ofContinue reading “like fishing”

Posted byaidarendsNovember 17, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on like fishing

There Is No “Migrant Crisis” – Boston Review

The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/there-is-no-migrant-crisis/

Posted byaidarendsNovember 17, 2022Posted inLit Review, Newsletter and UpdatesLeave a comment on There Is No “Migrant Crisis” – Boston Review

A New Theory Of The Entourage (Part I) – by Harmony Holiday

The group becomes its own entity, inseparable and separate from the coherence of each individual member, like a bastard mafia always ready to perform its ethic of collective anonymity. — Read on harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/a-new-theory-of-the-entourage-part

Posted byaidarendsNovember 16, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on A New Theory Of The Entourage (Part I) – by Harmony Holiday

we kissed the possible

and the laws changed and you couldn’t leave as muchif you didn’t have the right color passportand i had to go visit my friend in londonthey had a green passportand mine was blue and we was blueand mines was bluesand yours was tooand we laughed at itwe had to laugh kept us from dyingand weContinue reading “we kissed the possible”

Posted byaidarendsNovember 15, 2022Posted inLit ReviewLeave a comment on we kissed the possible

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