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Perne in a Gyre [by Mitch Sisskind]
1.Think about it for a minute and you'll seeHow nothing is further in the past than Anything else. Either it's in the past or It's not. Boom, bang. Case closed. You may think the pyramids…
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“Perhaps a Sentence”: The Rationale for Creative Writing [by Irwin Shaw]
<<<It is generally believed in literary cricles that everybody has at least one novel in him. I doubt that. I have found a few men and women who do have one novel in them,…
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Molly Arden writes a poem [by Molly Arden]
I started writing this poem some years ago when I spent a semester at Magdalen College in Oxford. It turned up today when I took out my Magdalen College folder and remembered having lunch…
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Out of Reach [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Music Paper © Lera Auerbach When something is out of reach – sometimes it is just out of reach by a tiny bit, not close enough to grasp, but almost there.…
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“On the Day of Atonement” [poem by Yehuda Amichai]
On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put onmy dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem.For a long time I stood in front of an Arab’s hole-in-the-wall shop,not…
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The New York School Diaspora, Part One (Denise Duhamel) [by Angela Ball]
DEAR AMERICAN AMNESIA, I know you are only trying to make white people feel better— and some of us might even appreciate it, but maybe it’s good you sometimes let us remember certain things,…
