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A Day in the Life of Wintry Mongolia: a Trip to the Kazakh Eagle Festival [by Ming Holden]
Mongolia, often referred to as Asia’s last unexplored frontier, is also described as the land of Asia’s cowboys. Indeed, the rugged culture of “felt tents” embodied by the nomadic family of Genghis Khan is…
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Coconut Milk in the Palm of Your Hand
Editor’s note: We have asked Bruce Covey, editor of Coconut, to post a poem here from his virtual pages every Sunday from now through the end of October. Bruce, who teaches at Emory University…
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Two Poems by Bruce Covey
Reveal: Shapes Point: Massage chairs; mortgages; Los Angeles collocationSegment: I’’m mailing my vote from anywhere to anyoneLine: Are you a native speaker of Estonian or Lithuanian?Circle: Introducing a very special being straight from the…
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Journal Excerpts: Notes Toward the Formation of a Mongolian PEN Center [by Ming Holden]
Natsagdorj, Mongolia’s touchstone poet October 15, 2007 The Arts Council of Mongolia occupies the fourth floor of a large office building in central UB. I was there to tell Ariunaa, the director, about my…
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This Is the Week That Will Be (Will Be, though The Future’s Not Ours to See)
When we travelled in Mongolia in June, we had the good fortune to meet several young American ex-Pats who generously agreed to post for us about their lives and work. Each will post for…
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Film Still Series #94
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.
