Tom Orange is back in the blog saddle again, with a new set of spurs and boots to match, responding in detail to my questions about the contemporary condition of the notion of the avant garde. Well worth reading.
"AOC. What's that?"
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Two guys, one covered in tatts, talked loudly next to the tourist vans they
drive, while their tourists were at the temple. Something about taxes, then
"n...
SUPERMANIFESTO 2026.
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Fortunately, I never feel *quite *this rusty.
We offer 2025 our best wishes for the future and at the same time, it can
just as well go F*** off. A new...
The Year in Poetry, 2025
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A thanks to the poets whose work I got to hear in Portland in *2025*:
*Abel, David*
*Ainsworth, Maudie*
*Beaver, Ella*
*Berg, Eryn*
*Bettridge, Joel*
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Philip Lamantia Day -- 2025
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Today’s the 98th anniversary of the birth of Philip Lamantia, born in 1927,
on Sanchez Street in San Francisco. And yes I said yes let’s celebrate!...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
Permacultures and Pollinator Pathways of Mind
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Westchester, NY Pollinator Pathway Garden Tour Sunday June 13! The suburban
backyard I inherited when I moved into this house was sculpted with
ornamental ...
For a Commonplace Book 9
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W. got talking of Emerson again: “The world does not know what our
relations really were—they think of our friendship always as a literary
friendship: it w...
The Next Big Thing: Divya Victor
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*What is the working title of the book?*
*Things To Do With Your Mouth* is the title. Les Figues is the publisher.
*Who or what inspired you to write...
Norwich
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Ah, it's good to be back in Norwich, must run now, captions later.
My favorite fish and chips shop.
And where I usually went for "a traditional cuppa."
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Indeed. It won't be Avant Nashville until cowboys there ride camels.
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