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  • It’s Round About Midnight and Happy Birthday to You, Thelonious Monk

    October 10, 2022

    "Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy."  T.M. — sdh  

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  • Elisa Gabbert: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    October 9, 2022

                                      photo by Adalena Kavanagh _________________________________________________ Bright & Distant Objects   I read a headline that said, “Human…

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  • The Cartel Acadamy [by Armin Rosen]

    October 8, 2022

    <<<One key difference between now and the 1920s, when the last largescale movement to exclude Jews from American campus life happened, is that Jews now lead and hold prestigious tenured chairs at major American…

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  • In the new “Southern Review”: Poems by Terence Winch

    October 7, 2022

    Fallen World  You never cry anymore. The trees don’t makeyou weep. The baseball season has almostgone missing, but you aren’t really concerned.You can’t go anywhere. There is a world of freelove, grocery stores, off-track…

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  • Ron Charles in the Washington Post on BAP 2022

    October 7, 2022

    <<<Want to read more contemporary poetry but don’t know where to begin? For expert curation and variety, you can’t do better than “The Best American Poetry 2022,” edited this year by Matthew Zapruder. These…

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  • from “Duke Rhino,” a work in progress [by Mitch Sisskind]

    October 7, 2022

        This was the first day of a new school year. I would be starting seventh grade. My mother and I were in the breakfast nook. The Chicago Tribune was on the table with…

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