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Freud Quiz # 21
Freud Quiz # 21This is the first sentence of Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents:(a) “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – that they seek power,…
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Mark Eleveld, Guest Blogger March 29-April 4
This week we welcome Mark Eleveld as our guest blogger. Eleveld is the editor of the best-selling poetry anthologies, ‘The Spoken Word Revolution‘ & ‘Redux’ (Sourcebooks Publishing). He is a high school English teacher,…
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Hard Times, part eleven (by Mitch Sisskind)
When Annika got back into town, she and I had a serious talk about my backyard cemetery project. ed note: If you want to catch up on Mitch Sisskind's Hard Times project, you can…
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which anglican theologian are you? a facebook quiz [by Amy Lemmon]
Amy took Which Anglican Theologian are You? quiz and the result is R. S. ThomasScripture, tradition, and reason are best articulated poetically. Poetry, which you write in your free time, is bound up with…
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Taxi trivia (by David Yezzi)
Two mid-twentieth-century American poets died of heart attacks in New York City taxi cabs. The more recent was Robert Lowell in 1977, who expired en route from JFK. Having left his third wife, Caroline…
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On Dickens and Listening [Heather Christle]
Don't you love it when science echoes in confirmation of literature's observations? This week I've been reading A Tale of Two Cities, a copy my grandmother gave me when I was ten, and which…
