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“Last Song” [by Terence Winch]
Last Song Mother! Where have you been? Yourchildren are drinking beer and playingthe piano. Every single thing you everowned has long ago disappeared. We’renot even sure when exactly you were bornor what ship…
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“Angelic Autism: The Boy Who Could Fly” [by Joe Lehman]
With the exception of Dustin Hoffman’s role in 1988’s Rain Man, a great many representations of autism in fiction, particularly in Hollywood movies, focus on autistic children and young adults. The inevitability that…
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Born Today: Keats — as well as this master of light
Born today was he who painted this portrait of a young woman with a water jug. The blue is rich, the geometry superb, and light flowing in from the window a miracle of air…
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“Strike into it Unasked” [poem by Gjertrud Schnackenberg]
"Strike Into It Unasked" [by Gjertrud Schnackenberg above and below left; below right, Gerard Manley Hopkins] Poetry’s “impulse, like electricity, crossing the space, leaves its signature.” …
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Valencia Robin: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________________________ Milwaukee, 1968Say it loud! I’m black and I’m proud —James Brown I was there the day…
