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Quote of the Day: Bright Blue Mailboxes [by John Updike]
"The place where my personal hopes and dreams and the intentions and provisions of the state intersected was the postal system. Its workers, whom in my small town I knew all by name, brought…
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Lawrence Welsh: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo 2019 by Bruce Berman ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Birds Are Flying Over the birds are the dead or the ghosts of…
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Our love affair was meant to be. . .
Happy anniversary to us! Photo by B. A. Van Sise.
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Poetry Challenge: A Prompt [by David Lehman]
Prompt: Write a poem sparked by the deliberately unidentified portrait above. Imagine that it is the portrait of either (a) a celebrated modern poet or (b) a wounded World War I veteran war or…
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Squib 445: Envisioning the Web [by Alan Ziegler]
445: The following document was unearthed during the Great Pandemic Dig of 2020, which is still taking place in millions of closets, attics, basements, and garages. In 1983—seven years before the first web browser and…
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“Coward, Take My Coward’s Hand” [by David Lehman]
David Lehman's "Talking Pictures" column for The American Scholar is devoted this month to "Home of the Brave," Mark Robson's 1949 movie. Here is the opening paragraph: <<<Much of my early education in film…
