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“I nominated Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize. You’re welcome” [by Gordon Ball]
People may not realize that Nobel Prizes, like other awards, are actively campaigned for. It is as if lobbyists, albeit unpaid ones, were out there petitioning the committee in Stockholm. Here is Gordon Ball's…
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Highway 61 (Revisited) [by David Lehman]
In the name of Abe – biblical predecessorof honest Abe, who freed the slaves,and also Bobby’s dad — I stand at your gatewith faith equal to doubt, and I say,look out kid, no matter…
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“Joy in Mudville” [by Peter Ferry]
We are disoriented. Cubs fans are used to moving on to football by October. Our association with baseball in the fall has usually been looking over someone’s shoulder at a TV in a bar…
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Hybrids Are Not Evil
You might be forgiven for thinking they are – hybrids have been blamed for everything from the lack of diversity our food system to the fall of civilization (I jest). Specifically, they…
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Nobel Prize, but famous long ago…. (by Mitch Sisskind)
Everything about this album cover was so exquisitely congruent with the historical moment! I recall seeing it for the first time: the slush, the girl, her boots, and most especially the VW van. Bob as a specific identity…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Guadalupe, acrylic on wood, by Sylvia Ji she broods in her pen: LA GALLINA…
