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Thank you to @parisreview for letting me think about Joshua through my elegy for him: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…

Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light” by Geoffrey G. O’Brien

October 16, 2026 – “I didn’t intend to write a poem, and if you’d asked me if I wanted to, I would have said no.”

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I have a friendly disposition but am forgetful, though I tend to forget only important things. —John Ashbery, from “A Nice Presentation”
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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/…

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 (Gift Article)

Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. —G.K. Chesterton, from "A Piece of Chalk"
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New neighbors living under the back door awning
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Wallace Stevens’s poem “Of Mere Being” contemplates the great unknown. . . Commentary by A O Scott: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts. (Gift Article)

A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.”

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address— source of "of the people, by the people, for the people"—is 272 words long and took a skinny 2 minutes to deliver.
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"At the Movies with John Ashbery" An essay by John Yau: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…

At the Movies with John Ashbery by John Yau

February 10, 2026 – “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”

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Froggy begs for belly rubs while I'm doing yoga
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“Then I just stopped listening to everybody, and everybody stopped talking to me,” she said. “I was getting very little feedback.” nytimes.com/2026/01/01/arts/…
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When a flood damaged years’ worth of artworks kept in storage, Sophie Calle decided to embrace the decay. Art21 goes underground to attend the funeral for Calle's pieces.
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Brueghel the painter concerned with it all has chosen a winter-struck bush for his foreground to complete the picture —William Carlos Williams share.google/tida1CKRM3rbDP1…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) The Hunters in the Snow, 1565
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Robert Louis Stevenson with a thoughtful New Year's resolution:
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More wisdom from Stevenson's New Year's/Christmas essay: "There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself."
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Robert Louis Stevenson's end-of-year refections, from "A Christmas Sermon":
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"We are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well. Here is a pleasant thought for the year’s end or for the end of life. Only self-deception will be satisfied…"
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"Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much":—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed."
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"All contradictions are to be found in me in some shape or manner....[W]hoever studies himself very attentively finds in himself, even in his judgment, a mutability and discord. I have nothing to say about myself absolutely, simply or solidly." — Montaigne, Inconsistency (1588)
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"Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait, Light and Shadow (1945)." From: news.artnet.com/art-world/sh…
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