Saturday, November 26th

sounds of Christchurch*

Roy Montgomery, “Five Bears,” 2016

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lagniappe

reading table

The way “The Tennessee Waltz”
is about having heard

“The Tennessee Waltz”
before:

an almost floral
nostalgia,

is what we call
beautiful.

—Rae Armantrout (1947-), “Overhearing,” fragment (Veil: New and Selected Poems)

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the beat goes on

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*New Zealand.