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  • The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Three: Joseph Richie [by Angela Ball]

    June 24, 2025

    Dewpoint Hold this that has grown It takes to your hand As if learning in the ways of tension Through the acolytes of water But since the sodden beams Can for you resume Overwhelm…

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  • “Silence” [by Marianne Moore]

    June 23, 2025

    Silence My father used to say,“Superior people never make long visits,have to be shown Longfellow’s graveor the glass flowers at Harvard.Self-reliant like the cat—that takes its prey to privacy,the mouse’s limp tail hanging like…

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  • Questions of Travel with John Kenney and Elizabeth Bishop [by Nin Andrews]

    June 22, 2025

    There are two kinds of folks in this world, my father used to say.  Those who like to travel—they like to move fast, the faster the better, like your mother, and those who want…

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  • A.E. Stallings: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 22, 2025

    ______________________________________________________________________ Empathy My love, I’m grateful tonight Our listing bed isn’t a raft Precariously adrift As we dodge the coast guard light, And clasp hold of a girl and a boy. I’m glad we…

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  • “Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise”: David Lehman on Thomas Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”

    June 20, 2025

    from SLATE  JAN. 22 2013 9:19 AM “Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise”

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  • Baseball-Music Quiz [by Alan Ziegler]

    June 20, 2025

    Which one does not belong with the others?

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