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The Sunday Poem: Peter Balakian

        World Trade Center / Mail Runner / 73   There was no languor, no drowsy trade winds, or stoned-out stupor of lapping waves, only news, the big board of crime, corporate raiding, selling short and long. It didn'’t matter, I was no Ishmael. I just hovered there [...]

By |2021-04-06T16:26:16-04:0009.10.11|The Sunday Poem, Words|Comments Off on The Sunday Poem: Peter Balakian
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Where Art Fears to Tread

As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, there is no shortage of news stories, official ceremonies, and tributes. But this weekend I've been contemplating how the arts community fits into all of this speechifying and memorializing. What is the artistic legacy of 9/11 now that it is a decade behind [...]

By |2016-11-11T21:55:35-05:0009.05.11|Art, News, Sounds|Comments Off on Where Art Fears to Tread
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