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Santa, St. Nicholas, and a Barrel of Brine (by Laura Orem)
Clement Clarke Moore The cover of an early edition of the poem The modern version of Santa is, as most people know, the creation of Clement Clarke Moore, a 19th-century American poet whose…
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“Modern Love”: XXX [by George Meredith]
# 30 What are we first? First, animals; and nextIintelligences at a leap; on whomPale lies the distant shadow of the tomb,And all that draweth on the tomb for text.Into which state comes Love,…
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Crystal [by Rachel Barenblat]
Another ice storm poem. Because, as Jason Shinder (of blessed memory) used to say, "whatever gets in the way of the work is the work." CRYSTAL The ice forest rattles and rings as though…
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Emily Dickinson Called Back: She’s in a Band
By Joy Katz My favorite piece in "Lightning at our feet," a multimedia performance based on Emily Dickinson's work as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, didn't have any words at all. …
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“ho Skoteinos” [by Felix Singer]
ὁ Σκοτεινός [ho Skoteinos] The weeping philosopher weepingin profilefor the cameo-makerwhose little flame casts his shadowshivering against the stucco wall: I am the shadow, Herakleitos sighs, …
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Film Still Series – Intimacies #3 [by Bill Hayward]
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.
