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The Meaning of “It”
All poetry is personal. All poetry is experimental poetry. All experiments are failed experiments. The experiment was a success but the surgeon died. All confessional poetry is admissible, the doctor said. The lawyer said…
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“We Gather Together”
Here’s a lovely version of the old Dutch Thanksgiving hymn, played by the North Guildford Congregational Church Bell Choir.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Guess the year. (How about those hats!) — sdh
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Poem for Thanksgiving
HUNGER(by Samik) Eskimo You, stranger, who only see us happy and free of care,If you knew the horrors we often have to live throughyou would understand our love of eating and singing and…
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Happy Thanksgiving [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sorry I've missed a few weeks posts. I'd explain how sometimes even just a once a week blog can be too challenging to manage without some breaks, but…
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The Best Line in the Book
I've just finished reading P. D. James's Talking About Detective Fiction (Knopf). The best sentence in the book is the one in which she defines the England in which she grew up, "an ordered…
