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  • For Summer: Florida Poets: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello [by Emma Trelles]

    August 30, 2019

                                        in the shadow, federico carosio iii Driving Down Old Cutler Road              for Guillermoby Marci Calabretta Cancio-BelloBanyans arch across the road,all…

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  • Squib 321: A Note on Memory in “On the Road with Phil Freshman” [by Alan Ziegler]

    August 27, 2019

              [click for On the Road with Phil Freshman]             Lauren Gravitz writes that autobiographical memories “begin to take lasting form in a part of the brain called the hippocampus…Neurons…

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  • The Mets Weekend Wasted Away [by Greg Pattenaude]

    August 27, 2019

    After the Mets completed a three game sweep of the Indians, I was excited for a huge series against the National League East's leading team, the Atlanta Braves.  The Mets were nine games back…

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  • Squib 320: On the Road with Phil Freshman [by Alan Ziegler]

    August 25, 2019

                August 1969, after my stint at the Riverside Press-Enterprise, I hook up with my cousin Ellen and her boyfriend Greg in Berkeley. We will drive to Oregon and stay at Greg’s mother’s ranch. Ellen…

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  • The Images of Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]

    August 25, 2019

    What image or images from noir films come to mind as particularly striking and memorable?  Suzanne Lummis: For irony and paradox—and pathos— I guess not much tops the pietà that closes Double Indemnity, where…

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  • For Summer: Florida Poets: Erica Dawson [by Emma Trelles]

    August 24, 2019

    carla, 2014, mickalene thomas from When Rap Spoke Straight to Godby Erica Dawson I’m covering my head, like KoolG. Rap said, in this red zone. Dead. This ain’t no motherland, though fek-uhndas fuck.   …

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