• The multigenerational group show ‘Talisman’ is filled with magic

    In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviews group show “Talisman,” currently on view at YveYang in Manhattan. […]
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  • Maggie Queeney reflects on a decade building the Poetry Foundation’s adult education programs

    When Maggie Queeney began teaching a routine poetry workshop at a Chicago senior center, she had no idea one of her selected poems would facilitate a participant’s long-awaited catharsis. Partway through the workshop, a man nearing the end of his life found in the intricate verses of a villanelle a space to reckon with what […]
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