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Barcelona, Catalan, and a Contemporary Catalan Poet [by Sharon Dolin]
Gemma Gorga I have been in Barcelona about two weeks, have watched spring transform from cool, sometimes rainy days, into warm days of bright sun and light past 9 each evening. I cam here…
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Secrets [by Kate Angus]
In my workshop, I often use a prompt where I pass out blank index cards and ask my students to–as quickly as possible–write down one of their secrets. The secret can be mundane (I…
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Judy Gemini could go on singing [by David Lehman]
Judy Garland: The Road Gets Rougher As a boy in Minnesota, Bob Dylan listened to a Minnesota girl sing the ballads of Harold Arlen and thought he could travel down the road taken…
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Two Telephones: Translation Projects [by Kate Angus]
Translation Lately I have been thinking about translation and how it exists under everything. Everything we write, everything we speak is a kind of translation–an attempt to bring forth into words what we…
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“Possession in Jordan, MN” [by G. Andrew Collins]
You’re still real, still a gorgeous mess of flesh.You’re a businessman in the bathroom mirror.You’re a barrier reef, an echo, an atom splicer& debutante. You let off spurts of steam& crazy-person laughter.You spill liquor…
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