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The Trouble Clef – Findings | 6 January 2010 [by Lera Auerbach]
This New Year, I am starting a notebook in which I will write my daily findings. These could be a phrase from a conversation or a line from a poem or various Internet findings…
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On Choice and the Meaning of Life, with sidebar on cannoli [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Is life what it seems to be? If it is, it is a variegated mold on the surface of the third planet from the sun. It can be described as an understandable…
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In Praise of Jill McDonough’s Habeas Corpus [by Jason Schneiderman]
A few years ago, I was talking to a poet a few years older than me who was telling me about a conversation she’d had with a poet a full generation older than us. …
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You Say It’s Your Birthday – It’s My Birthday, Too (by Laura Orem)
Looking for something to write about today, I discovered that January 5 marks many interesting birthdays. (Thank you, Wikipedia.) Here are just a few: On this day in 1885, the Italian-British poet Humbert Wolfe…
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Actually, You Can Keep Your Inspiration [by Jason Schneiderman]
I owe a debt to Cher. It’s quite possible that every gay man owes a debt to Cher, but I’ll only speak of mine, since it’s the one I know best. In 1999, I…
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Starting to Assess/ Happy New Decade [by Jason Schneiderman]
When I was 16, I read “13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?”—mostly because it promised to be about me, and since there was no sociology class in my high school, I thought I should…
