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Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Lawrence Raab
Last week’s posting of Kevin Prufer's “A Giant Bird” put me in mind of “Little Bird” by Lawrence Raab, which first appeared in New Ohio Review 4, Fall 2008. “Little Bird” has a deceptively straightforward movement,…
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Melissa Broder: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Ahoy! By the gates of the walled lung we stand circled in the dark. We’ve come through his…
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“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. . .”
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention,A kingdom for a stage, princes to actAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene!Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,Assume the port of…
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Virginia Woolf explains why the English would rather live in ancient Greece
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must sharpen…
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From Frank Sinatra’s Amazing Playboy Interview (1963)
Playboy: All right, let's start with the most basic question there is: Are you a religious man? Do you believe in God? Sinatra: Well, that'll do for openers. I think I can sum up my religious…
