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The Death Cross (and Other News) [by David Lehman]
They asked me to write "poetry in real time," and I said I would do it if I could do it in prison. "Even better," they said. So I sat and waited, waited and…
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Fragments 157-168 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
Gorky wrote in My Universities: “I do not like the moon.” As for me, I adore the moon, in all its phases. I spent a year building a boat that could take you back…
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Epigraph of the Month (1st place)
This is the epigraph that Edgar Allan Poe chose for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling…
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Barbra Streisand sings Avinu Malkeinu
On the eve of Yom Kippur listen to Barbra Streisand
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“Did I Miss Anything?” [by Tom Wayman]
The one time this question is OK to ask is when you are chastised by your department chairperson because you have missed a faculty meeting devoted to bitching about the athletes in the class…
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Mixed media artist Emilie Chaix: expressing creativity and living creatively
The mixed-media painter and sculpteur Emilie Chaix will probably be surprised to learn that a chat with her nearly two years ago shook my verities, showing that my modest hopes for personal evolution were…
