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Horace’s Epode IX [translated by Ron Horning]
Epode IX When, under your high roof so pleasing to Jupiter, shall we praise Caesar’s victory,blesséd Maecenas, by drinking the Caecuban wine you cellar for holiday feastsand by hearing without listening to flutes and…
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Wrapping Up Loose Ends [by Jason Schneiderman]
OK, a few final thoughts to wrap up my week of blogging. Thank you everyone for reading these posts! I’ll see you back up on BAPBlog in the Fall when my book Striking…
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Happy birthday yesterday, Elvis Presley!
Elvis Presley was born 75 years ago yesterday. As the terrific musician Patterson Hood wrote yesterday, his birth is the date the celebrate, not the anniversary of his death, since, among other reasons, "Pat…
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“Life of the Mind (Night)” [by Stephanie Bolster]
Yes, this vessel outstreams fate. This might be the Nile or another mouth. We gather on the deck between above and under. All the unimagined constellations. The steamer forges. Blue goes the owl and…
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Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon [by Jason Schneiderman]
My friend Linda Neiberg was a close friend of Rachel Wetzsteon, and I asked her to write something about Rachel. Linda is a Renaissance scholar and a Renaissance woman, someone I admire greatly. Thank…
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Notes on James Cameron’s Avatar: Let’s Relive What’s Wrong, But Rightly [by Jason Schneiderman]
A few years ago, I was working at an arts center for an afternoon. I’d been infuriated by a slew of editorials coming out against special high schools for Queer youth. One had been…
