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Cobbling Together Disparate Things [by Kate Angus]
It has been such a pleasure to guest-blog here at BAP and I’m a little sad to be hanging up my spurs when I hit “publish” on this entry. This last post is a…
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“His Birthday” [poem by Nin Andrews]
His Birthday After David Lehman’s “Lost Weekend” He was the all-American man in the novel she was writingOn the plane. He proved that a character can come to life.When she didn’t touch her…
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The Second Person [by Kate Angus]
Lately I’ve been thinking about the multiple ways writers use the second person; how, depending on the situation, the “you” functions as an address to a specific other, to the unknown reader or readers,…
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The Brick Wall [by Jina Song]
Today, sister and I visitedan apartment for viewing.Smaller than my lungs, itfelt like a fragment of a rockamong rocks scattered in the sand.I was unable to ask for moreof other kinds, and my sisterstood…
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Placa del Diamant and Catalan History [by Sharon Dolin]
La Colometa (The Little Dove) by Xavier Medina Campeny Taking a coffee in the Placa del Diamant in Gracia, a neighborhood of Barcelona that used to be a separate village, I am struck by…