I'm listening to Pet Sounds right now. If I didn't hate the beach so much I'd be on a surf board right now.

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I can't wait to watch Miranda July's "The Future."

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Philip Levine is the new poet laureate of the United States. Cool portrait by Robert Vasquez at Letras Latinas.

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"His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom." O the Catholics!

from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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I remember digging this poem so much by Carolina Ebeid I read it every day for a couple of weeks, then periodically thereafter. It turns out Carolina was at CantoMundo this summer and I didn't put 2 & 2 together, as they say.