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  • “Hear My Prayer, O Lord… ” [by Barbara Hamby]

    February 1, 2022

    Garrison Keillor chose Barbara Hamby's poem "Hear My Prayer, O Lord… " for "The Writer's Almanac" on January 10, 2022: Hear my prayer, O Lord, though all I do all day is watchold black-and-white…

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  • “Grand Illusion”: Why and How it Matters [by Bruce Kawin]

    January 31, 2022

    Ed note: The last time I taught a graduate literature seminar, only two of fifteen students had seen Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, one of the most celebrated of all American movies. To help remedy…

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  • Charlotte Boulay: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    January 30, 2022

                              ______________________________________________________ Pallikoodam   When it rained, even our shoes turned green. The fan whirred except when the power was out, then…

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  • “A Song to a Child at Night-time” [Poem by Dylan Thomas, an @Ednaschoice Selection]

    January 30, 2022

    For your Sunday night insomnia:            View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Edna (@ednaschoice)

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  • Sinatra at the Sands, January 1966 [by David Lehman]

    January 28, 2022

    Ed. note: Jack Daniel's produced a limited-batch sour-mash whiskey called "Sinatra Century" to mark the singer's 100th birthday, December 12, 2015. Lehman's book Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World was…

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  • “Dream of the Atlas Moth” [by Aspen Matis]

    January 28, 2022

    October. And the air earthy as the forearms of a folk hero.   Atlas moths cling to the window screen, freeze their wings into sleep unknowable as the mind of an opponent soldier —…

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