Posts in Selections
The Sforzando Letters (a selection)

I write, as Roethke says, "to solve all the leaps of light." I write to do with letters what Thelonious Monk did with piano keys.

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Songs for the Sforzando Issue (a selection)

The songs our team has been spinning as we work to curate your—& our own—burning & cracking & aching into something beautiful for you.

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How to Survive Social Distancing (A Selection)

Now, I don’t know how to write about the spring without writing about the sickness. It’s a tricky and selfish thing.

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Singing While Rome Burns (A Selection of Music for the Apocalypse)

I’ve found a catharsis in musicians’ emotional responses to the strife in the world right now, and in their visions of what might spring from the ashes.

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