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  • “If I had to choose. . .” [by E. M. Forster]

    December 16, 2024

        “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”   — E. M. Forster Do you agree? Is…

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  • Ariel Francisco: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 15, 2024

          _____________________________________________________ Seeing a UFO and Singing Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”  into the Night at the Top of My Lungs   How many poems does a guy have to…

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  • A. E. Stallings on BAP 2024

    December 13, 2024

    Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 3) 'The Best American Poetry 2024', edited by Mary Jo Salter and David Lehman (series editor). 13 December 2025   In this new series, A.E. Stallings,…

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  • Adam Bellow on his dad’s “Mr. Sammler’s Planet”

    December 13, 2024

    Adam Bellow [in SAPIR]His Barbed Behind:  Mr. Sammler’s Planet and Its CriticsWhat my father’s 1970 novel tells us about today “I am not a revolutionary. I have little respect for American revolutionaries as I…

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  • “Chroniques d’une exploratrice”: Web experience on stage (and about time, too) [By Tracy Danison]

    December 13, 2024

    “Chroniques d’une exploratrice” by Alice Gozlan and Zacharie Lorent. “@RabbitHowl: Go see Osaka, there’s a box full of straw”. Photo Courtesy L’Etoile du nord © Alice Gozlan Until Alice Gozlan and Zacharie Lorent’s theater…

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  • Drive-by Animals [by Nin Andrews]

    December 12, 2024

    Drive-by animals, we called them when I was a girl—the dogs and cats dumped off on our farm by passing cars. The cats took up residence in the barns. One year our farm had…

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