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Life, friends, is either difficult or boring. Right now, mine isn’t boring. On Dickinson. [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Miserable? Feel like you are falling out of a plane? I know I am. The parachute is empathy. Let’s take a moment and feel for Emily Dickinson, who was weeping long before you were…
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Wednesday Wanderings [by H. L. Hix]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and I have long suspected that we are twins separated at birth. I take the suspicion as now conclusively confirmed by her identifying as the lines that haunt her the last…
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ Answers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of Red Clay Suite. She teaches at the University of Oklahoma. Here are her answers to our twenty questions. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and…
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Danielle Pafunda’s Answers
Danielle Pafunda is the author of My Zorba and Pretty Young Thing. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? Mina Loy, secretary of Corpses and Geniuses. There is, at…
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“Westward” [by Tom Disch]
Westward As deep into the cave of sleep as he could crawl he crawled, among the thingsthat hadn’t skin nor legs, eyes but no lids;but even at that depth he felt exposed.His neighbors might…
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Tuesday Trifles [by H. L. Hix]
Moira Egan has added a question to the list: What do you read in bed? My own reading in bed tends to be simply whatever I’m reading generally; in other words, I don’t usually…
