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A blue butterfly to go home with [Katy Evans-Bush]
Poetry International 2010: Imagining Peace ALAS! No picture of Waterloo Bridge with which to round off this week. But take it from me: earth has not anything to show more fair, not even Westminster…
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Why George Soros Votes Yes on Proposition 19
George Soros has a cogent column in the Wall Street Journal on why he favors legalizing marijuana. Here is how the piece opens:<<<Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization…
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Into London [by Katy Evans-Bush]
Old Street, October 2010 Just on my way to the Southbank Centre to the second night of this year's Poetry International Festival there. A lovely, sunny autumn day in London when I mostly slept,…
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Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Irremovable Soul [by Stephanie Paterik]
Jennifer Michael Hecht is “a minor famous atheist,” as she puts it. Her bestselling book Doubt: A History made her a cult figure among skeptics and catapulted her into the public speaking circuit. At…
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Bob Dylan, DJ
From Sean Wilentz's new book, Bob Dylan in America, on Bob Dylan's radio show, which ran from May 2006 through April 2009 and is still available in reruns (on satellite radio) and accessible on…
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October [by Lera Auerbach]
I opened the windows on a dark orchard. Trees were guarding the movement of branches. And with the bitterness of October rennet apples I opened the windows on a dark orchard. The funeral…
