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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
Today's comic is inspired by Chapter 2013 in David Lehman's The State of the Art, which features Shelley's poem, "The Dreariest Journey. " David points out that the poem "is a remarkable statement even for…
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Halie Theoharides on “Native of Heaven” by Emily Hunt
Before coming to the MFA program at UMASS Amherst, I worked at a rural public library. One of my tasks was to periodically weed through books in the children's room that no longer circulated.…
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Dylan, The Escape Artist (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
A Facebook friend posed a question online asking people to identify two men he described without naming. I answered that he was referring to “Houdini and that other escape artist Bobby Dylan.” I had…
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Introducing jubilat
Beginning today and continuing on Sundays for roughly 12 weeks, Halie Theoharides will select poems from the pages of jubilat and present them here with commentary. Halie is a poet, librarian and visual artist and the Managing Editor…
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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler on Mad Men Season 7 Episode 11
Dear Amy, Pete’s Turn to Shine? He was due. After humiliations at the hands of his father-in-law, a Metro North railway conductor, the late Lane Pryce, Detroit auto executives, irate husbands, and wounded wives,…
