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February 20: It’s the Shape of a Tulip [by Julia Cohen]
“What I have been thinking about, lately, is bewilderment as a way of entering the day as much as the work. Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics…. It cracks open the dialectic and…
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February 19th: The Transpersonal Warrior [Julia Cohen]
In a house of so many first-floor windows, I was afraid someone was outside looking in. When I went upstairs at night, I would run past the foyer windows as fast as I could.…
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Posing Questions to the Universe by Tony Leuzzi in The Brooklyn Rail
From the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail comes this review of David Lehman's New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013): In his redoubtable essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot wrote, “No…
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The Tarot Master Read My Book. Now I just Need to Write it! by Amy Glynn
Look, I’m a multi-generational Northern California native. I have taken a ten year old to see a shaman. (She wanted to know more about her past lives. What was I supposed to do, say…
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“A Dream of Archie Ammons” (whose birthday this is) [by Jim Cummins]
Last night I read “Part Ten” of Archie Ammons’s Garbage out loud, twice, in an empty room. Then listened in embarrassment to hear if anyone was listening. I’d bought the book so…
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Rusty Water & Interrupture [by Julia Cohen]
Hi. It’s Tuesday as you read this but I’m writing on Monday. I’ve eaten 1.5 English muffins and drank countless cups of ginger tea. Rusty water sputtered out of my kitchen tap on Thursday…