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Sholeh Wolpé, Guest Blogger November 5-9
This week we welcome Sholeh Wolpé as our guest blogger. Sholeh was born in Tehran, Iran, and has lived in Trinidad, the UK, and the United States. Her publications include Keeping Time With Blue…
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On the Tango and Buenos Aires [by Mong-Lan]
Borges' Tango Drawing from University of Notre Dame | Rare Books & Special Collections Stepping out onto Corrientes, you see the surge of lights, the waves of people, the blaring neon. Buenos Aires: wind-swept,…
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“On the Beautiful and Sublime” [by DL]
Immanuel Kant's essay on this subject is nowhere near as famous and infuential as those of Longinus and Edmund Burke, but it is a splendid piece of writing, showing an aptitude for dividing the…
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From the Archive: Fear and Beauty in July by Emma Trelles
South Florida is the coolest part of the country right now, which is kind of spooky but not so much that I won't take that news as a bizarro blessing. Outside the rain is delicate…
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Ron Padgett / Poetry Forum / Wednesday November 7, 2012 at 6:30 PM
The celebrated poet Ron Padgett — a mainstay of the "soi-disant Tulsa School of poetry" and a main source of inspiration for aspiring poets since he burst on the New York scene in the…
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Walter LaFeber on the Chicago Cubs
<<<< Anyone can have a bad century. — Walter LaFeber >>> The eminent historian Walter LaFeber — author of The American Age: U. S. Foreign Policy At Home and Abroad, from 1750 to the…
