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Somerset Maugham: on Art, with Heart
“I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed. On taking thought it…
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May Swenson’s Four-word Lines
To welcome the new year, I turn to May Swenson and her poem “Four-Word Lines” for a prompt that I enjoy doing. Swenson’s poem explains itself and its procedures better than a paraphrase: Your…
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Chris Banks: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ The Garden of Human Delights Not that I ogle Rubens’ nudes any more than the…
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Lovesick [poem by Major Jackson]
December 23, 2023 First, you will need to cross some dark threshold.I suggest lying on your backin a pasture of cut ryegrass or in a city park.I suggest planting an arm behind your head.You…
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“The Trout Quintet,” my answer of the day [by David Lehman]
The Answer The Trout Quintet is my answer to everything today which beginswith snow on the ground and latheron my face. I will shave with my fatherin the mirror and then go downtown,get a…
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Performance revealed: movement, un-narrative and the silent beginnings of Imagination [by Tracy Danison]
“Où allons-nous? #15”, 80x280cm. Gérald Foltête. India ink, acrylic, oil and collage on canvas. Photo © Gérald Foltête “The important thing is to move.” – Resident of Kiev explaining why he took his girls…
