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Chief Dull Knife College is small--only 141 full-time students, although a few hundred more attend workshops or study part time. The median age is in the upper 20s; some students have worked to raise money for college, while others needed time to deal with addiction and, in some cases...
...immune to those ailments as the decade of the '20s reached its operatic climax, and it suffered from some others that were peculiarly its own. A stubborn agricultural depression had blighted the American countryside since the conclusion of World War I, crimping the incomes of the 20% of the workforce who were farm laborers and significantly limiting domestic purchasing power. Meanwhile, a notoriously ramshackle, poorly regulated banking system had managed to wobble its dysfunctional way into the modern era. Some 25,000 banks--most of them highly fragile "unitary" institutions with tiny service areas, little or no diversification of clients...
...Hunger” (1979), strove to allow the reader to create a personalized experience through verse. Even though her poetry addresses different topics now, many of the more recent poems shared at the reading had this same element. “I now have a son in his 20s, but when he was younger I ended up watching cartoons with him, so my poems were filled with cartoon imagery,” Armantrout said after the reading. “I certainly don’t spend my time watching cartoons now, but an author’s poetry deals...
...despite Williams’ crucial involvement, this complex light show—which mimicked tripping on hallucinogenic drugs and accompanied a concert performed by The Velvet Underground and Nico—was attributed to Williams’ lover, Warhol. “Imagine you’re in your 20s, the sexiest, youngest, most creative, most productive, and most vibrant you’ll ever be,” Robinson says. “You move to New York to make art. You’re at the Factory, at the center of everything. And from then on everything...
...Diamonds Cabaret, a gentlemen's club, where we would tip the entertainers 5,000 $1 bills that we had brought in a leather satchel. I got in the Bentley while Flo lay down in the backseat and began one of those phone discussions I knew too well from my 20s; it started out about nothing but escalated, with a lot about "your tone" and "Why you gotta be like that?" and "Stop playing me," followed by "I wrote you a poem." When the phone call ended, I said, "Flo, you've got 100 problems." He said, "Why's that...