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  • Introducing Emily Dickinson, part 1 [by David Lehman]

    February 19, 2021

    Emily Dickinson is one of the chief glories of American poetry because, in her poems, she weds originality of vision with an idiosyncratic style raised to a rhetorical ideal. Her characteristic utterance is the…

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  • The Importance of Martin Guerre, part two [by Joe Lehman]

    February 19, 2021

    Ed. note: Part one of this discussion of "Martin Guerre" was posted here on February 12. I have been poring through the lyrics of the various songs from Martin Guerre the musical. The moment…

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  • Making of an Opening [by Lera Auerbach]

    February 19, 2021

    "Opening" by Lera Auerbach   The Absence of Trees You knowyou're getting closer to the North when trees disappear. The world without trees. At first, you don't notice that the trees are missing. Then you…

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  • Checking up on my baseball card collection [by Greg Pattenaude]

    February 18, 2021

    The Super Bowl is over and it's almost time for baseball. Spring training is starting; pitchers and catchers reported today. You wouldn’t know that looking out my window seeing at least a foot of…

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  • An Interview with Grace Schulman [by Aspen Matis]

    February 18, 2021

    Grace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement awarded by the Poetry Society of America. One of the country’s most distinguished living poets, she was inducted as member of the American…

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  • Time For A Snack! Body Movement with Melissa Canter [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]

    February 17, 2021

    It's time to push away from your desk, or get out of bed, or get off the couch, and take four (just four!) minutes to clear your head and get the oxygen flowing. This…

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