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  • At twilight the locusts begin [by Emma Trelles]

    July 13, 2009

                                                                  The moment you put the blah-blah-blah on it, it destroys the whole thing.    I am currently fixated with the late painter Joan Mitchell. My obsessions with artists usually come courtesy…

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  • “The Menu” [by Terence Winch]

    July 13, 2009

    The Menu Watched some videos of you singing about thefamine, which made me really hungry. I orderedthe worst food on the menu, the most powerfuldrinks.  I sat below a giant screen on which thegolf…

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  • Biceps, Rodin, The Humble Pen, and Ballet [by Emma Trelles]

    July 12, 2009

         A few nights ago I attended a bodybuilding-meets-visual art event at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Yes, there were micro-bikinis and oiled muscles, but there was also a panel of humanities professors…

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  • Emma Trelles, Guest Blogger July 12-18

    July 12, 2009

    This week we welcome Emma Trelles as our guest blogger.  Emma is the author of Little Spells (GOSS183). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and an arts and culture journalist. Her writing…

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  • The Fast Flying Vestibule: I’m Glad I’m Prepared for the Recession (Terence Winch)

    July 11, 2009

      terry winch, jesse winch, alan oresky, joe stork, pete adland, doug pell ca.1973. Once upon a time (actually, late 1971), the strangest old-time string-band in American musical history was formed, and I was…

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  • “Supernatural Love” [by Gjertrude Schnackenberg]

    July 11, 2009

    Supernatural Love My father at the dictionary standTouches the page to fully understandThe lamplit answer, tilting in his hand His slowly scanning magnifying lens,A blurry, glistening circle he suspendsAbove the word 'Carnation'. Then he…

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