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  • “Episode of Hands” [by Hart Crane]

    March 2, 2018

    Episode of Hands The unexpected interest made him flush. Suddenly he seemed to forget the pain,– Consented, — and held out One finger from the others. The gash was bleeding, and a shaft of…

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Adam Clay and Meagan Cass of Shelterbelt Press

    March 2, 2018

    DD: How did Shelterbelt Press come into being? AC: Meagan and I were both teaching at the same university and we decided to form a press to be affiliated with the university so our…

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  • “Parlor Game for a Wet Afternoon” [by W. H. Auden]

    March 2, 2018

     “Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…

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  • Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Aracelis Girmay

    March 1, 2018

      Keeping Faith Alive, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2008-2009, Poli Marichal   & When We Woke by Aracelis Girmay It rained all night. It did not rain.I strapped my life to a buoy—&…

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  • Epigraph of the Month: Why Art? [by David Lehman]

    March 1, 2018

    <<                   We have Artin order that we may not perish from Truth.                                       — F. W.…

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  • Chattanooga Choo-Choo (All Aboard)

    March 1, 2018

    On March 1st were born the Broadway actress Monique Fowler, the late Richard Wilbur, the brilliant business executive Louis Gerstner, savior of IBM back when it was teetering on the brink of the abyss…

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