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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
In his wonderful book, State of the Art, David Lehman writes: After observing that "every revolution in poetry" is at base "a return to common speech," T.S. Eliot in "The Music of Poetry" (1942) goes on…
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Anna Cypra Oliver, Guest Author July 20-14
This week we welcome Anna Cypra Oliver as our guest author. Anna is the author of the acclaimed memoir Assembling My Father (Houghton Mifflin, 2004; Mariner Books, 2006). Her essays have appeared in The Inquisitive…
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Right and Left [by Lera Auerbach]
I started playing piano before I learned which was my right hand and which the left. To remember my hands correctly, I would associate the right hand with the high notes of the keyboard…
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MadHat Press: the Plume, Cardinal Points, In Like Company journals/anthologies [by Alex Cigale]
Continuing, and closing out my week today, with news from my corner of the publishing world. What I'd like to tell you is a very personal story, that owes its existence to the late…
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National Translation Month: An Appeal to Readers of Poetry
Since its inception three years ago, annually, I have been a regular contributor to the National Translation Month initiative. I’ve used this as a platform to bring to readers’ attention the recent centennials of…
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Who Was Herzl? (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
I’m currently writing a book on the origins of Zionism, the political movement to re-establish a Jewish nation in the Land of Israel. One of the great pleasures of writing the book is learning…
