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“My Orgasms: A Survey” [by Nin Andrews]
My Orgasmsa survey of surveys on the Sex Lives of Men and Women I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.— Robertson Davies The average couple is…
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Let’s Face the Music and Dance [by Ian Crouch]
from The New Yorker, January 28, 2010 <<< Last Wednesday night, I was fortunate enough to be at the Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall for "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues,"…
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The Ladies Lazarus: Feminist Poetry Renaissance in Kansas City [by Elizabeth Powell]
Just down the steep hill from where I teach at Northern Vermont University in quaint Johnson, Vermont is a precious artistic resource, Vermont Studio Center. Known for its artist residencies since it began in…
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For Summer: Florida Poets: Brian Turner [by Emma Trelles]
Aedes Aegypti by Brian Turner With the audio on mute, the televisionflickers over the bodies of loverstangled in dream, carbon dioxidepluming from their mouthsthe way factory smoke billowsfrom the industrial park outside of town.…
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Language Has Consequences: Carolyn Forche and the Poetry of Witness [by Elizabeth Powell]
“In the dark times. Will there be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.” These words by Berthold Brecht have been on my mind a lot lately even from my privileged…
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In My Unknowing: Vermont’s Poet Laureate Chard deNiord [by Elizabeth Powell]
Walking the lush, wooded trails near my home in northern Vermont, I have come to appreciate the beautiful, sometimes elegiac, liminal spaces between heaven and earth. I have grown to love that fuzzy line…
