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  • Be Transformed By the Renewing of Your Mind: Monica Hand, Nina Simone, Kalup Lindzy and Imaginary Social Worlds: R. Erica Doyle

    August 18, 2011

    I spent much of my early years in a neo-colonial, proto-feminist interior world, managing my various traumas by pretending I was a plucky, white British girl in a secret garden or boarding school lorded…

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  • Roadside Stand by Charles Simic

    August 18, 2011

    In the watermelon and corn season, The earth is a paradise, the morning Is a ripe plum or a plump tomato We bite into as if it were the mouth of a lover. Despite…

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  • But where are the postcards of summer?

    August 18, 2011

    In June, the Academy of American Poets mailed out blank postcards to poets asking them to fill out the space — in any manner they wished — at some time during the summer. The…

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  • Will Sinatra sue Frank McCourt the Bum?

    August 18, 2011

    According to the Los Angeles Times's Dodgers Blog, the Frank Sinatra estate, holders of five season tickets to Dodger games, may be among the ardent Dodger fans joining the legal dispute between putative owner…

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  • Sin Fronteras, I Share With You the Sky: R. Erica Doyle

    August 18, 2011

    Today I will share with you the sky, because I can.  In case you haven't noticed, I've got what someone in one of the many random books I've read called "lighthouse" focus.  I am…

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  • Dwelling in possibility with Bill Hayward at Apple/SoHo by Justin Taylor

    August 17, 2011

    bill hayward © saman giraud   Did you know that there’s a theater on the second floor of the Apple Store in Soho? I confess that I did not. In fact, I’m not sure…

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