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  • Homage to Sextus Propertius — Wende Crow’s version

    December 4, 2011

    12 What is to end this crime, what Romannobility? Our love is dividedby the same miles dividing Venice from Hypanis.Our love is neglected. I no longer hear,Cynthia, that sweetest sound.You were gratified, for a…

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  • Brian Bouldrey, Guest Blogger December 4-10

    December 4, 2011

    This week we welcome Brian Bouldrey as our guest blogger.  Brian is the author, most recently, of The Sorrow of the Elves(GemmaMedia, 2010).  He has written three nonfiction books Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica…

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  • Meet the Press: Robert Miltner interviews New Rivers Press editors

    December 3, 2011

    Robert Miltner interviews Alan Davis and Suzzanne Kelley of New Rivers Press, University of Minnesota Moorhead, and Kaitlyn Moessner, Ryan Christiansen, and Whitney Walters, Students in the Certificate in Publishing program.  RM: I’ve read…

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  • Homage to Sextus Propertius — Peter Drake’s Version

    December 3, 2011

    A Song It’s Valentine’s Day, Horace, and I need an ode.It’s the day of lovers, Pindar, and Greekwould be even better than this cold Latin;but perhaps Catullus could warm my hearton this evening devoted…

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  • Yeats on Friendship

    December 3, 2011

    Last evening, when listening to Paul Violi's friends and colleagues and students and admirers read his poems, I thought of the last two lines of Yeats's "The Municipal Gallery Revisited." Here are the culminating…

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  • Homage to Sextus Propertius — Claire Fuqua’s Version

    December 2, 2011

    12 — From the Latin My desire won’t stop fingering its crimeAnd all those noble faces, my good Roman men, all dead?They divide themselves again and again, in their well-read multitudesWhere a tempered hysteria…

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