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Listen to George Plimpton
“Paul Tavilla”
SummerStage, 2003
Paul Tavilla does this as a hobby; he catches grapes dropped from high buildings. Indeed, he is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the champion in this rather specialized field, having in 1988 caught a grape in his mouth from the top of the John Hancock Tower in Boston...
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Agha Shahid Ali
Salon, April 2001
Black Pacific. 'Shahid, come here, quick.' A ship,
giant lantern held in its own light, the dark
left untouched, a phantom-ship with birds, no, moths…
Sarah Arvio
Salon, November 2002
Why was a sole an only and a foot?
Why was soul not solar, not solid?
Paul Auster
SummerStage, August 2003
It was the spring of my senior year, just weeks before I was supposed to graduate. Out of nowhere, a man turned up on the Columbia campus and started causing a stir…
Priscilla Becker
Salon, December 2000
I forgot to tell you my husband
died. He was in Spain and something
strange happened with alcohol or water. He loved them
both so much…
Nathaniel Bellows
Salon, November 2002
They carried the lamps out as if they were children.
Rugs were laid out on the grass, or beaten
with a shovel on the clothesline…
Jim Carroll
Salon, April 2001
Sat for three days in a white room
A tiny truck of white flowers
was driving through the empty window…
Billy Collins
Cipriani, October 2003
I evolved like many people from a gatecrasher at 72nd Street to an invited guest. That took about fifteen years, but I was finally accepted…
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