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Tales of the Nineties: Down and Out and Up in Paris [by Alan Ziegler]
1995: On the day before turning 47, I am weak from a bout with knockwursts, but Erin and I stick to our plan to leave Freiburg so we can spend my birthday in Paris. Knowing…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
I had to laugh out loud when I was reading State of the Art by David Lehman, and I came across this quote from Nicholoson Baker's The Anthologist.
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Hand Dance [by Don Freas]
It’s blueberry season, two weeks early this year. I’m on an orchard ladder, with a small red bucket hung from my belt, near the top of one of the old, eight foot tall blueberry…
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Don Freas Guest Author July 27-31
This week we welcome Don Freas as our guest author. Don is a poet and sculptor, and was a furniture designer-craftsman for forty years. Raised in Pennsylvania, he migrated in 1972 to the Pacific…
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Apocalyptic Vision: Yeats’s “The Second Coming” [by David Lehman]
PHOTO: YAO XIAO If our age is apocalyptic in mood—and rife with doomsday scenarios, nuclear nightmares, religious fanatics and suicidal terrorists—there may be no more chilling statement of our condition than William Butler Yeats’s poem “The…
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Criticism Continued/Painting and Writing [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: this is the final post in Anna Cypra Oliver's series about writing and painting. Find yesterday's post here. sdh.) CRITICISM CONTINUED A family legend grew up around my grandfather, which told of…
