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  • Light in the desert articulates things very strongly . . . [by Susan Brind Morrow]

    September 20, 2022

    LightThere is a clarity of light in the desert that articulates things very strongly. It changes from moment to moment, and with it the colors change, the colors and tones of the shadows and…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Five): Catherine Pierce [by Angela Ball]

    September 20, 2022

      The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes        And then we woke up. And our uncleswere still missing, our azaleas yanked and gone, our dogs dashed against oaks.But before we woke, we…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Five): Catherine Pierce [by Angela Ball]

    September 20, 2022

      The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes        And then we woke up. And our uncleswere still missing, our azaleas yanked and gone, our dogs dashed against oaks.But before we woke, we…

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  • Diane Burns’s “Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question” [ chosen by Terence Winch]

    September 19, 2022

      I can't remember when I first encountered this poem.  I know I stumbled on it accidently, I think while doing some on-line research during my days as an employee of the Smithsonian's National…

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  • Diane Burns’s “Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question” [ chosen by Terence Winch]

    September 19, 2022

      I can't remember when I first encountered this poem.  I know I stumbled on it accidently, I think while doing some on-line research during my days as an employee of the Smithsonian's National…

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  • “Everything falls apart, but poetry lasts . . .” [by Susan Brind Morrow]

    September 19, 2022

    1. Water I realized in my teens that the only thing I was really interested in was poetry, and everything I did had to do with that. My mother had a reverence for poetry…

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