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  • Tis the Season for Resolutions [by Nin Andrews]

    January 13, 2024

    Or is it already the season of forgoing resolutions?  On my way to the swimming pool this morning I heard on the radio that people are already forsaking their best laid plans. The reason:…

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  • Napoleon Times Two [by Mitch Sisskind]

    January 12, 2024

    Sam Feldman When Napoleon wanted a woman he said Bring me a woman and they brought him one, Poof poof no nonsense and the whole thing Was over in half an hour. Yet Napoleon's…

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  • How Do I See Myself? [by Molly Arden]

    January 11, 2024

    How do I see myself? Molly gets asked this a lot. She looks in the mirror and sees Picasso's understanding of her distorted self. In the chat room that served as her a senior…

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  • Blast from the Past: Rigoberto González tells his truth about BAP 2007

    January 10, 2024

    <<<’Fess up. You bought a copy. I did this year, anyway. I actually buy the essay and short story anthologies in the Scribner Best of series year after year without fail because I tend to…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 10, 2024

    January 10, 2024

    Lately I have been with obsessed with the sonnet—all it can hold within those 14 lines. So many variations of the sonnet (Coleman, Hayes, Hamby, just to name a few!)…Enter Aaron Smith who uses…

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  • “Passing Through Chicago” by Petra White [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    January 10, 2024

    Petra White has published five collections of poetry, including her most recent Cities (Vagabond Press, 2021). Here debut collection, Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press, 2007) was shortlisted for both the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the…

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