A few from recent months, in and around NYC, Newark, and points north and south. Enjoy!
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1 World Trade Center enshrouded in thick
gray clouds, beneath an otherwise cerulean sky |
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Barbara Epler, New Directions' Editor in Chief and
Publisher, and my editor, receiving the Friedrich
Ulfers Preis from the Goethe Institute in New York |
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One of the conversations at Festival Neue Literatur
"Translation at the Margins" discussions,
featuring Mexican literary star Valeria Luiselli,
author John Freeman, and translator Tess Lewis |
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Resistance messages in the windows
of the Cooper Union's Great Hall |
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A strong wind that blew a trash can
off its moorings at the Exchange Place
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station |
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Someone crashed outside my office
at Rutgers-Newark (I never found
out if anyone was hurt, though I hope not) |
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Rutgers-Newark MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips
with Writers@Newark series guests and
my former colleagues Robyn Schiff and Eula Biss |
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Subway boxing match--it was choreographed,
thankfully, and not a real fight |
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| Floor merchant, MTA station |
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Erecting the outdoor Spring Market
at Bryant Park, NYC |
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The elevated floor for the Spring Market
in Bryant Park |
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| A lively restaurant in Brooklyn |
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Erica Hunt and Tonya Foster reading
and conversing about all kinds of fascinating things
at Adam Fitzgerald's East Village apartment |
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A group of Rice University students who came
to Newark via the Friends Service, and whom
I met with at the Newark Museum |
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| Downtown Providence, Rhode Island |
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During the northeastern blizzard, which
hit while I was visiting at Brown this spring |
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The 2017 Spring semester readers, Brown
Department of Literary Arts |
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On Carole Maso's door at Brown,
two departed but never forgotten literary
forces, C.D. Wright and Aishah Rahman |
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The Turkish contract for Counternarratives,
which apparently vanished in the mail
on its way to the publisher's agents there
(perhaps one of Erdogan's reps read "The Lions"....) |
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| Graffiti in Providence |
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| Plein air painter, Astor Place |
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Something about his hat made
me photograph him |
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Manhattan, still too cold
for outdoor dining |
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One of those incredibly filthy
New York City snow mountains |
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| "Can't Sleep?" |
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| A sculpture rising in Cooper Square |
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Before my event with Phil Harper and
Sonya Posmentier, at NYU Center
for the Humanities |
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| A little lost finger penguin |
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| Only in NYC (Bryant Park) |
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Daffodils peeping through the mulch,
Bryant Park (42nd Street just beyond the gate) |
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| Meatpacking District, Manhattan |
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The line outside the Whitney Museum to
see the 2017 Biennial (Frieda Kahlo
is looking askance at everyone) |
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| The image speaks for itself |
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Ernest Montgomery's newest volume
of photos (i.e., Beauty), Hermoso |
