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Heather Christle, Guest Blogger January 14-18
This week we welcome Heather Christle as our guest blogger. Heather is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan, 2012) The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009), and The Trees The Trees (Octopus, 2011) which…
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A Few of My Favorite 2012 Things (by Cara Benson)
(Ed note: We're almost at the point where it's too late to say "Happy New Year" but I couldn't resist asking Cara Benson for permission to post her favorite memories of 2012, which originally…
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Chuck Hagel and the Hegelian Dialectic [by David Lehman]
The controversy surrounding Chuck Hagel's proposed appointment as US Secretary of Defense has not been well understood. The Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska senator is a Republican, and yet the Republican establishment has raised…
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“Harvest Song” [by Chelsea Whitton]
The world is wide, we say, and this is comfortingthough perhaps it shouldn’t be. We lie downat day’s end beneath this apple tree, or that one. We try hard to love our families a…
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Do Not Go Gentle… (by Sharon Preiss)
I first fell in love with Cy Twombly’s paintings when I saw Fifty Days at Iliam at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about 15 years ago. The ten large starkly white canvases flame with…
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Secrets of the Editing Trade, Part 1: The Rejection Slip
If the subscription list of this magazine approximated the yearly inflow of manuscripts – the editors would hire a long string…
