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Fashion and Beauty with Poetess Vinny: The Professorial Look [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Dear Poetess Vinny, I just got my first job as an adjunct professor of English at a relatively small school with not much of a dress code. Most of the other professors wear a…
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A Speculation: On “The Shadow in the Garden” and “The Aspern Papers” [by David Lehman]
James Atlas’s The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale (Pantheon Books) is the writer’s effort to come to terms with his calling as a literary biographer. Atlas has written two noteworthy biographies, the…
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George Balanchine for President! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine (c) Martha Swope I'm relishing my time with Dance in America, Mindy Aloff's important new anthology from the Library of America. It's a volume that one can roam around in and I've…
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Maureen Owen & Barbara Henning on the Road (Terence Winch)
Watch out, Mobile, Austin, San Diego, and any number of other cities in the U.S.: Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning are on the road and heading your way, armed with the power of…
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Next Line, Please: Tributes to May in January and The Expanse of Spirit [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Isn't it strange how a set of rules, such as end words or repeated lines or four-word constraints, can actually be more liberating than working from scratch? Over 200 entries poured in, 4 words…
