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Sports Desk: Letter to Tiger [Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
Dear Tiger, Good morning from Los Angeles. All week long I’ve been watching the Olympics and thinking what to write about for my Sports Desk column. Truth be told I’m a little late. I’m…
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Robert Hershon Presents a Poem by Tony Towle
This poem by Tony Towle first appeared in Hanging Loose 82 (Fall, 2002) and also appears in his latest collection, Winter Journey. THE DINNER PARTY Ah, life is a reassuring dream that is vivid…
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Malachi Black, Guest Blogger February 21 – 27
This week we welcome Malachi Black as our guest blogger. Malachi is literary editor of The New York Quarterly and a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center…
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Why Auden is an Aquarius [by Jill Baron]
Wystan Hugh Auden, born February 21, 1905 When I read Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times (the Phi Beta Kappa Poem he read at Harvard in 1946) for the first time,…
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“Casting Call” [by Patricia Carlin]
after Jon Woodward There were glass blowers, and backbiters,and glass-growers; and there were back-boners; and waste-makers; and the usualwoman in the back room, whoseold bones tolled, whose soulhad dimly and…
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The Imaginary Burning Car by Jerry Williams
Since we are still huddled together in the toxic shadow of Valentine's Day, I suppose it's appropriate to write about breaking up. Surely, thousands of VD survivors waited until after the holiday to move…
