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Jean Cocteau liked cats.

Jean Cocteau liked cats.

momalibrary:

Apollinaire (live! - on the left) and Andre Rouveyre at a Biofix studio which housed “une petite machine animee” in Paris in 1914 from a 1944 flip book reprint, Apollinaire: Filme en 1914.

poetrysociety:

Poetry Society of America Chapbook Contest


Judged by: 
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, John Yau, and Mary Ruefle.

$1,000 prize and publication.

Accepting submissions from now until December 22, 2012.

More information here.
 

Patti Smith & William Burroughs. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

Patti Smith & William Burroughs. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou 

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou 

Frank O’Hara & Grace Hartigan.

Frank O’Hara & Grace Hartigan.