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Angela Ball, Guest Author
Today we welcome Angela Ball as a guest author. Angela teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. The author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Talking Pillow (University of…
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Great Songs of Cinema [by Elizabeth Samet]
What do you think of first? “Over the Rainbow,” “As Time Goes By,” “Singin’ in the Rain”? Win, place, and show on the AFI’s “Top Movie Songs of All Time” list. My pick, Judy…
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Harryette Mullen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo of Harryette Mullen by Hank Lazer, Venice, CA, 2007 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We Are Not Responsible We are not responsible for your lost…
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“Why ‘Nixonland’ Matters” [by Joe Lehman]
When I was twenty-five, backpacking through Australia, I carried with me my hardcover copy of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. It absorbed me for all seven…
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A Lie [by Lera Auerbach]
Finek My dogwhimperedquietlyin his sleep.His legswere twitching –he had a nightmare. I woke him upgentlywith a lie:“It’s all right,I will neverleave youalone.”
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“Five One-Minute Eggs” [by Andrei Codrescu]
THE ECONOMY We used to make things we didn’t understand (Marx), consumed by people who didn’t understand us, and now we don’t even understand the people who are making them, that is us. Our…
