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Squib 456: Tales of the Sixties; The Hippies [by Alan Ziegler]
(Excerpted from The Incomplete, an unpublished novel based on real events.) The Common College student arts organization, Wastelanders, had a budgetary crisis. We’d had a great run of poetry readings, art shows, and…
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“Flesh 78” [by Herbert Engelhardt, 1925-2021]
Flesh 78 Brancusi hinted itGiacometti stinted it Miró laughed at itDegas choreographed it Bosch hated itBruegel skated it Watteau crêpe de chine covered itManet gape to dine uncovered it Botticelli virgin Spring emergedTitian love-in…
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On James Schuyler’s “Arches” [by Edward Hirsch]
James Schuyler is often celebrated as a poet who celebrated the everyday and ordinary, what he called “the pure pleasure of / Simply looking.” He took a…
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David McAleavey: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ This time tomorrow this time tomorrow where do you think you will be in a car, a room on a road, a floor of a building with…
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Squib 455: Tales of the Sixties; The People’s Brigade [by Alan Ziegler]
(Excerpted from The Incomplete, an unpublished novel based on real events.) Students received academic credit for living communally at The House in the woods of northern Vermont at the end of the Sixties.…
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Squibs 453-454: For Robert Hershon [by Alan Ziegler]
453: I was required to observe Bob Hershon teaching junior high school students for a Teachers & Writers program I was running. It felt strange, since Bob was one of my heroes as a poet…
