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WE MUST BE ANIMALS Manifesto [by Andrei Codrescu]
We are becoming machines. Exquisite Corpse has resolved to throw its sabots in the cog wheels. It is incumbent to our poetic sensibilities and fleshly complexity that we become animals. Not MORE like the…
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Ida Lupino and “The Bigamist” [by David Lehman]
Here's to Ida Lupino on her birthday (February 4). The Bigamist I saw The Bigamist, maybe the best of the brilliant noir movies Ida Lupino directed, thoughThe Hitchhiker gives it a run for the money.…
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The Great Chins of Hollywood: A test with prize [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman
Have you ever noticed that some of our most beautiful and talented actors have a certain physical trait in common? See if you can match the chin to the actor, list below (put your…
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There is No Final Word [by Vincent Katz]
For my final Guest Author post (already!) I am going to do a survey of things I see around my desk that are inspiring me as I look out the windows at water dripping…
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Celebrating the Best American Poetry 2018 at Villanova University: February 6, 2019 5:00 PM
Connelly Center Cinema 6:15 (St. David’s Room) Reception and Book Signing to follow the reading This event is sponsored by the Honors Program, the Villanova Center for Liberal Education, the Department of English, and…
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Satire in the Offing? [by Vincent Katz]
I am thinking about satire. The literary genre, not the political kind, though that can be useful as well. In these times, comedy can be the thing that really helps us survive. And most…
