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If you like Central Park, being on a rooftop in Manhattan, drinking wine, and looking out over the seal habitat in the nearby zoo while listening to: Aracelis Girmay, A. Van Jordan & Tom SleighThursday, August 9, 20126:30 p.m. Arsenal Building, Central Park, NY, NY Then join us?

If you like Central Park, being on a rooftop in Manhattan, drinking wine, and looking out over the seal habitat in the nearby zoo while listening to:

Aracelis Girmay, A. Van Jordan & Tom Sleigh
Thursday, August 9, 2012
6:30 p.m.

Arsenal Building, Central Park, NY, NY

Then join us?

“After Sappho” by Hoa Nguyen, from her upcoming book, As Long as Trees Last

“After Sappho” by Hoa Nguyen, from her upcoming book, As Long as Trees Last

poetrysociety: Dear August babies, my self included, happy birthday. Happy birthdaying, Brett.

poetrysociety:

Dear August babies, my self included, happy birthday.

Happy birthdaying, Brett.

Quiz: Who are your favorite Tumblr-ing poets?

Quiz: Who are your favorite Tumblr-ing poets?

The Millions : The Great Taxonomy of Literary Tumblrs: Round Two

“Six months ago, I rounded up a list of my favorite literary Tumblr accounts. Alas, six months in the real world is different from six months online, and Tumblr now has grown by a few million blogs. So with that in mind, I’ve decided it’s time for another list — a better list, a bigger list.”

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rdng: The Dancers Inherit the Party by Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1960

rdng:

The Dancers Inherit the Party by Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1960

When I got you I Thought I had an angel-chile. When I got you Thought I had an angel-chile. from “Love Again Blues”
When I got you I
Thought I had an angel-chile.
When I got you
Thought I had an angel-chile.

from “Love Again Blues”

(Source: ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu)

Paul Foster Johnson: If experimental poetry were a Prince song it would be this one. This ballad has no verse and no chorus, but uses a meandering vocal line to tell the fragmented story of an affair with a witty waitress called “Dorothy Parker.” The vocals and the drums propel the track forward and push the watery keyboards and synth bass into the background. It’s a pared-down sound for a song about nerds flirting awkwardly. Dorothy makes fun of Prince for ordering fruit cocktail, insists on taking communal baths with their pants on, and sings along with Joni Mitchell on the radio. For his part, Prince thinks of his encounter with Dorothy as an escape from his purple rainy baggage, and learns to self-sooth by re-enacting the bathing-with-pants-on scene until “all the fighting stopped.” Their quirky romance is embalmed in the coolness of Prince’s minimal funk. 

(Source: coldfrontmag.com)

Jack Kerouac’s suggested/hand-drawn cover of On the Road.

Jack Kerouac’s suggested/hand-drawn cover of On the Road.

(Source: beatbookcovers.com)

Elizabeth Barret Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese — translated into Portuguese.

Elizabeth Barret Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese — translated into Portuguese.