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Why the English love to live in ancient Greece? [by Virginia Woolf]
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must sharpen…
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Sweltering in Paris: Going to ground with Michel Onfray, Greta Thunberg & the death of Descartes [by Tracy Danison]
Catherine Diverrès, “Jour et nuit”NicholasJoubert Paris is surely a bit above the best when it comes to fostering and presenting creative, innovative, art-quality, live dance and performance, including circus. But, what with Paris lately…
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell, Guest Author August 5-9
This week we welcome Elizabeth A.I. Powell as our guest author. Elizabeth's forthcoming poetry book "Atomizer" is due out in Fall of 2020 from Louisiana State University Press. She is also the author of…
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Don’t “Keep This to Yourself”: Dispatches from Vermont [by Elizabeth Powell]
The Poetry of Kerrin McCadden and the Opioid Crisis This week I will be reporting from my beloved home state of Vermont. Summertime is short here, but it is filled with literary and music…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Goes Boating [by David Lehman]
Shelley was a classic Leo with Taurus rising. Born on this day (4 August) in 1792, he was the middle man in the greatest double-play combination of all time, Keats to Shelley to Byron.…
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Met Percent: Week Three [by Alec Bernstein]
Almost Gods Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.” – Montaigne Entering the galleries of Greece and Rome was startling, coming as…
