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THE LISTENERS By Walter de la Mare ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second […]

Joan Mitchell, quoted by Patti Smith: “The solitude that I find in my studio is one of plenitude. I am enough. I live fully there.” From “The Garden” by Jack Gilbert, a poem of 29 lines; below are the first four and the final five. We come from a deep forest of years into a

MR. PRODUCTIVITY Band of maroon at sunset Beautiful view Someone at La Galette Where they have happy hour practically all day Called it “the actual ocean.” What I’m saying is It was like weird. This other service that I work with, One of the guys I worked with On that project A sales guy, 31.2

WALKING TOURS I was in Maputo, Beijing and Caracas Zagreb, Nairobi, Vancouver, Cairo, Florence (Loggia della Signoria) Seoul, Dhaka, Tokyo (Shinjuku) Algiers, Beirut, Damascus, Tashkent Lagos Nigeria AND Lagos Portugal Reykjavik the same as Asunción the same as Jerusalem Kigali (cleaner than Dubai?) London’s Chinatown Medellin, New York City (Bushwick) Oslo, Banjul, Mexico City, Toronto

If you’re like me you guessed Gertrude Stein, and like me you’d be wrong. It’s Edgar Allan Poe. But let’s take the guesswork out of the rest of this combo Choice Bits/Shop Talk summertime post. Julia Kristeva: “In terms of their attitude toward life, cultivated and cultivating people are vegetarian wolves,lying in wait for the

Vicky Chow performs Steve Reich. Wm. Blake: “the cistern contains, the fountain overflows.” Glory, by Noviolet Bulawayo The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood Iep Jaltok, poems of a Marshallese daughter, by Kathy JetNil-Kijiner (opening poem, “Hooked,” will send chills.) ING, by Clark Coolidge (Illustrations by Philip Guston) (And be sure to add how much fun it