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“Self-Portrait as Girl, Becoming” [by Raven Jackson]
I wait for signs of it, my body in drought, pulled teethhoused inside drawers. Gates, empty.Yesterday, another girldead. Her plantainsleft on the lips of a balcony—flies digging inside the cupboards.A red pepper is hemmedbeneath…
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SPOTLIGHT: Coldfront’s John Deming in Conversation with David Lehman Part I
John Deming, editor in chief of the important on-line journal Coldfront, has posted Part I of a 3-part interview with David Lehman. Author Photo: Brian Adams I interviewed David Lehman for about three hours…
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“If I die in a combat zone, box me up and send me home.” On the anniversary of D-Day [by Stacey Harwood]
collage by Star Black My dad landed on Utah Beach, not as part of the first wave, thank god, or I probably wouldn't be here, but days later, to clean up. He went on…
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A Taxi to Antiquity [by Mindy Aloff]
Nancy James in Charles James Swan Gown, 1955 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's What about a 3-D printer? The thought kind…
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D-Day, 70 Years On. . . [by David Lehman]
The general thought about prayer.He lit a cigarette and thought about it.If he was a praying man he would pray for a break in the weather,But prayer was an act of futility, or of…
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Lloyd Schwartz on “Showboat” (1936 version)
Click on this link to read Lloyd Schwartz on the 1936 screen adaptation of the classic 1927 musical (words by Oscar Hammerstein, music by Jerome Kern). There's a new DVD of this picture…
