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What we Learned in the Philosophy of Happiness Class (by Leslie McGrath)
This is the second part of a post I wrote last week about being asked to talk about poetry in a philosophy of happiness summer class at Yale. I have to…
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Bye to a dear friend and friend of poetry and poets everywhere, Ronni Leopold. [By Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I've been busy (good hard) writing and (good hard) living, truly sorry I haven't been posting, I'll start again when things lighten up elsewhere. Here now I just need to place a…
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A. M. Klein
When, back in the early 1970s, when Harold Bloom published his essay on "The Sorrows of Jewish American Poetry," a spate of letters protested that the Yale professor had underrated various contenders. Here is…
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I Apologize for My Dreams by Jerry Williams
Some twenty years ago, I was living alone in an East Hollywood apartment (directly across the street from the world headquarters of the Church of Scientology). One night as I tried to sleep, somebody’s…
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Alister’s Riddle Sonnets by Jerry Williams
My friend and colleague, Alister Sanderson—professor, experimental filmmaker, and former creative director and senior producer at the A & E Network—has embarked upon an interesting little project. Well, maybe not so little. “In the…
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The Odyssey Project, Books I – III [by Emma Trelles]
"Cayuga Lake, Ithaca NY," watercolor by Nari Mistry Dear Stacey, I am in receipt of your letter and will say I was pretty tickled when I saw the first mention of Ithaka in…
