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Cynthia Macdonald (1928-2015) [by Moira Egan]
Cynthia Macdonald died last month at the age of 87. Typical for our Social Media Age, I found out about her death on Facebook. This sad news was often relayed with a comment along…
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These Days We Measure By [by Vincent Katz]
I am excited to be starting a new season, Fall, my favorite season. It is said that every poet has a favorite month. October was Jack Kerouac’s. For me, it is the season. Even…
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Vincent Katz, Guest Author September 14-18
Vincent Katz with Alain Kirili's Sculpture (c) Ariane Lopez-Huici This week we welcome Vincent Katz as our guest author. Vincent is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Home (Nightboat, 2015). He edited…
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Michael Roth on “the end of higher ed as we know it”
Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan Universities, writes frequently on the fate of higher education, with particular attention to the changes wrought the technological revolution. From a recent piece in The Atlantic: <<< Given…
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For what is found there [by Julia Shipley]
In graduate school, my professor assigned us the task of reading the newspaper and responding to something found there, an assignment I found maddeningly difficult, but appreciable for its exercise of palpating that place…
