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Monday Cartoons by Nin Andrews
For more of Nin Andrews' cartoons and commentary, visit her blogs: Nin Andrews, Fracking Comics, and Physics Comics.
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Tanya Larkin on The Talking Heads, Her Roommate’s Notebook from Ninth Grade and Love Letters from Boys
I was writing this really serious comparison/contrast between Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, which is a very good book, especially the first fourth or so…
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All the Universe in Food: why food is so important in art (by Leslie McGrath)
Szymborska wrote in a poem that her soul was “as plain as the pit of a plum.” Such an apt self-description for a poet whose work, like stone fruit, is sweet flesh grown around…
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Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Alex Green
Alex Green’s poem “Blue Door Option” was first published in New Ohio Review 6, Fall 2009. It’s wonderfully paced and narrated with an authenticity of weirdness that I find terrifically appealing. When students ask…
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Leslie McGrath Guest Blogger June 24-30
This week we welcome back Leslie McGrath as our guest blogger. Leslie's first poetry collection, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage,won the 2009 Main St Rag poetry prize. Her poetry is widely published and has been…
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The Greek Tragedy: It’s Different This Time [by DL and friend]
A friend who plans to spend Christmas and New Year's in Greece files this report on that beleaguered and financially challenged nation, the ancient homeland of Periclean democracy, Sophoclean tragedy, Ariostophelian comedy, the Parthenon…
