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Shadow Patrol: Thoughts on the NYC Sandy Blackout, Plus a Poem by Elaine Equi [by Jerome Sala]
Like millions of other people in the NYC area, Elaine (my wife) and I spent most of last week in the cold dark, without light or heat. We did have cold running water, and…
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On Robert Frost, “Bereft” (by Jenny Factor)
Forgive me, those of you in “weather”. Under weather. Riding out weather. Here is a poem much on my mind. It has traveled beside me for over a week…leashed (or perhaps, unleashed and dislodged…
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The Year in Review: That Is Not What I Meant at All by Michael Robbins (February 13, 2012)
As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I had to take a seminar to learn how to be a “writing intern” in the Humanities Core. This involved writing fake comments on fake…
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A Poem for President Obama [By Sholeh Wolpé]
I was up late last night watching the elections. I knew Obama would win. He had to. The alternative was unthinkable. I watched the election results at my desk while I worked…
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The Year in Review: On “Whitman’s Cavalry Crossing a Fjord” by Caroline Malone (January 22, 2012)
Only in the past five or so years have I become a fan of Walt Whitman’s poetry. I’ve never disliked his work, but I also never could generate an enthusiasm for it either. I…
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I Have Sinned…. [by Sholeh Wolpé]
At a time when literature and the arts, and just about everything else in Iran were dominated by men, when very few women were respected as poets, a young woman by the name of…
