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  • “Modern Love”: XVII [by George Meredith]

    April 8, 2022

    At dinner, she is hostess, I am host.Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keepsThe Topic over intellectual deepsIn buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost.With sparkling surface-eyes we ply the ball:It is in truth a…

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  • Is Mom Dead, too? [by Charles (Bud) Dillon]

    April 8, 2022

    In the 1960s, the United States of America was home to a hundred million monarchies, lorded over by moms and dads who wielded absolute power over their children, ruling as if by divine right.…

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  • Tube Station (1932) [by Cyril E. Power]

    April 7, 2022

    Tube Station (1932) by Cyril E. Power (Metropolitan Museum, NYC)

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  • from Ten Questions for Dara Barrois / Dixon [formerly Dara Wier]

    April 6, 2022

    from Poets & Writers, 4.5.22 This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier), whose poetry collection Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina is out today from Wave Books. She is the author of numerous collections…

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  • The Respectable Burgher on “The Higher Criticism” [by Thomas Hardy]

    April 6, 2022

    The Respectable Burgher on “The Higher Criticism” by Thomas Hardy [pictured above] Since Reverend Doctors now declare That clerks and people must prepare To doubt if Adam ever were; To hold the flood a…

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  • Anselm Hollo: Posthumous Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    April 5, 2022

    _________________________________________ Parting             after Hugo Ball don’t go is what I want you to tell me the rainless wind from the south will make me long for you   tell me these are beautiful…

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