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  • Emerson on the poor and “the wicked dollar”

    October 17, 2011

    A powerful and perhaps surprising moment in Emerson's great "Self-Reliance":<<<Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they…

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  • Committed to Memory — by Amy Glynn Greacen

    October 16, 2011

    Writers: how many poems do you have memorized? Did you set out to memorize them? Was it demanded of you by a teacher? Did you just read them so many times they became imprinted…

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  • Arthur Mitchell by Marianne Moore

    October 16, 2011

    Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine   Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly        too rapid for the eye               to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels…

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  • Amy Glynn Greacen, Guest Blogger October 16 – 22

    October 16, 2011

    This week we welcome back Amy Glynn Greacen as our guest blogger.  Amy grew up outside San Francisco. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Lancaster University, England. Her work has appeared in…

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  • Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]

    October 15, 2011

    Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening. Gertrude Stein

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  • Politics by Ralph Waldo Emerson [by Michael Schiavo]

    October 14, 2011

    Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold; All earth’s fleece and food For their like are sold. Boded Merlin wise, Proved Napoleon great, — Nor kind nor coinage buys Aught above…

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