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Are You Smarter than an Eighth Grader? by Stacey Harwood
Reading Amy Glynn Greacen's post yesterday about memorization reminded me of the pamphlet I picked up at a book sale a few years ago. If you went to public school in New York City…
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BAP Comics continued (The Editors) . . . by Nin Andrews
Here they are in a casual mood . . . And here they're more formal: Which do you prefer? Read Guest Editor Kevin Young's introduction and Series Editor David Lehman's foreword here. — sdh
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Emerson on the poor and “the wicked dollar”
A powerful and perhaps surprising moment in Emerson's great "Self-Reliance":<<<Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they…
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Committed to Memory — by Amy Glynn Greacen
Writers: how many poems do you have memorized? Did you set out to memorize them? Was it demanded of you by a teacher? Did you just read them so many times they became imprinted…
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Arthur Mitchell by Marianne Moore
Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly too rapid for the eye to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels…
