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  • “Sure, I Was Loved. . .” [by Anne Carson]

    July 27, 2021

    for Dimitris Papaioannou I tame you.(No you don’t).You were nude.You were intangible.You were unconvincing.You were vague.You claimed you were born from angels.You stank of the horrors of war.You blazed with ruthless pride.Your full, loose mouth…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Eleven): Paul Hoover [by Angela Ball]

    July 27, 2021

    Written (after Szymborska) The written stone restsin the unwritten river; unwritten rain is fallingover the written town. Nothing written today,but tomorrow you’ll be writtenas you sit in your room not writing. Lo, it is…

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  • What is “The Longest Pleasure”? Lord Byron Knows

    July 27, 2021

    And is there not religion, and reform,             Peace, war, the taxes, and what's call'd the "Nation"? The struggle to be pilots in a storm?             The landed…

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  • The Poet’s Notebook [by Andrew McCarron]

    July 26, 2021

    In one of his notebooks, Pablo Picasso wrote “je suis le cahier” (I am the notebook), which conveys the important role that keeping notebooks/sketchbooks played in his creative process. Picasso is hardly alone. From…

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  • Andrew McCarron, Guest Author July 26-30

    July 25, 2021

    This week we welcome Andrew McCarron as our guest author. Andrew is a teacher and writer born and raised in the Hudson River Valley. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, chairs the Religion, Philosophy…

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  • Matthew Zapruder: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 25, 2021

                                        ________________________________________________ Ceasing to Be   The idea is simple. Lucretius wanted to rid  the world of death fear…

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