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Sonnet Xbox [by Laura Orem]
Shallow compare thee to a summer's day? Thou are more lovely and more temperature. You winds do shake the far buds of May, And summer's lead hath all too shot a day. Something too…
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IV. To China: Possession Point [by Sarah Howe]
…The sour tear-like orange was there like a clove of…
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Late Summer Reading (part 2): Rosie Schaap’s Drinking with Men [by Moira Egan]
I first “met” Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men, in a most unusual and literary way. Damiano and I had just finished up our “Poetry & Translation Song & Dance Routine,” as we…
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Happy Birthday Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920-March 9, 1994) by David Lehman
Many artists and writers gather their strength by opposing the established order, but sooner or later the successful ones are assimilated into the culture (Allen Ginsberg, the Beats, Black Mountain, San Francisco). Usually it…
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III. To China: The Library Cave [by Sarah Howe]
[My apologies – after a gruelling flight from London to Beijing yesterday (a journey I’d made in the opposite direction a few days before, coming home for a dear friend’s wedding), I found myself…
