Poetry
Hold the Line
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Matt LongabuccoMATT LONGABUCCO is the author of the chapbooks Heroic Dose (Inpatient, 2019), Athens Notebook (Imp, 2017), and others. Poems and essays have appeared recently in Folder, Lana Turner, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He teaches at New York University and Bard College, and lives in Brooklyn.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Crossing the Line: Germaine Acogny's Somewhere at the Beginning
By Rennie McDougallNOV 2019 | Dance
In Germaine Acogny’s performance Somewhere at the Beginning—directed by Mikaël Serre and presented at La MaMa theater as part of the Crossing the Line Festival—Acogny does strike her forehead and mark the ground and curl her wrists over her head, but it is her presence within these actions that bring her performance to life, something not easily translated into neat sentences.
Gillian Wearing: Life
By Osman Can YerebakanNOV 2018 | ArtSeen
The word “life” is a fine title for any exhibition because, in the end, isn’t everything surrounding us simply life? But in the case of Gillian Wearing’s Life, which is the largest exhibition of the artist’s work by a U.S. institution, it proves to be a perfectly fitting title right from the beginning.
Five Poems from Pavilion
By Gabriel PalaciosNOV 2019 | Poetry
Gabriel Palacios lives and writes poems in Tucson, Arizona, where he recently received an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. Recent work can be found in West Branch, The Volta, Typo Magazine, Territory, Spoon River Poetry Review and Bayou Magazine.
A Life Defined by Political Engagement
By John GarveyDEC 19-JAN 20 | Field Notes
Noel Ignatiev, the author of the following essay on Frederick Douglass, died on November 9th of this year. Although he had been ill, he wasn’t expecting death in the immediate future. In fact, he was looking forward to the publication of the essay in The Brooklyn Rail. The brief period of time since his death has witnessed a good number of formal obituaries and less formal reminiscences in The New Yorker, Commune, and The New York Times, which provide both biographical facts and descriptions of his impact and influence on students, friends and political comrades. I will try not to repeat too much of what has already been written.
