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Susan Howe in “Middle Air”

November 22, 2013 is when Susan Howe and David Grubbs sit in Woolworth Hall. Susan Howe and David Grubbs are at Princeton to perform their fourth collaboration, WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER. There is no light in the room. A sun is outside, near … Read More

by Joel Newberger on November 30, 2013December 1, 2013

For the Superior Wiper

Said a pseudo-American prophet, “p— is sooooo crucial!” I am really American, so I believe in this very hard. And, as really important things must happen in cool places (the defenestration of Prague was in the castle, births and deaths … Read More

by Joel Newberger on November 10, 2010March 22, 2013

On a Fast

My stomach is parched from having just peed into the muddled ground. And it hurts from having nothing to eat, no ring pops, no soda, no sunflower seeds. It’s an empty hole, a cosmic hole— it could collapse now into … Read More

by Joel Newberger on May 4, 2011March 22, 2013

Just a Tiny God

Last Sunday, I spoke with one of my dear friends about God. We were walking down some path strewn with magnolia petals, as the sun finally shone through the trees, talking about the trees, the breeze, the news.

by Joel Newberger on April 20, 2011March 22, 2013

Peer Review

Perfecting the college essay.

by Joel Newberger on November 9, 2011March 22, 2013

in the morning, in the light

Breath-poem.

by Joel Newberger on November 7, 2012March 22, 2013

Polis Is This

I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, a quiet settlement eight miles from Copley Square. The Marathon’s route follows Commonwealth Avenue through Newton into Boston. My house is a block from the Marathon’s 20-mile marker, in the middle of Heartbreak Hill, the most notorious of a series of four steep ascents that runners must endure as they pass through the city.

by Joel Newberger on May 9, 2013September 28, 2013

From the Editors

You are so thirsty. You may even be dehydrated. Scorching was the summer that just past, and wet classes and wet friendships are not yet arrived. But relief is near. For if you are reading the Nassau Weekly—and we surmise that you are reading the Nassau Weekly—you are about to become rather damp.

by Joel Newberger, Will Pinke on September 8, 2013September 8, 2013

Peaches and Penumbras

Independent life and the lesson of Ginsberg.

by Joel Newberger on October 12, 2012March 22, 2013

Levinski Park: Abroad, Alone, and Adrift

My friend James is soft-spoken; he talks instead of screaming and whispers instead of talking.

by Joel Newberger on October 12, 2011March 22, 2013

Beauty Decontextualized

The Program in Dance’s Spring Dance Festival: expertly choreographed works performed by accomplished student dancers at the Berlind Theater. There, I sat and stared at the stage. There, danced young men and women, their figures silhouetted against the backdrop, their motion passionate and firm. I sat next to my dear friend, who is herself an accomplished dancer.

by Joel Newberger on February 23, 2011March 22, 2013

The Divergence, Live

Somatiç sensations at a Terrace show.

by Joel Newberger on September 26, 2012March 22, 2013


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