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  • A.E. Stallings: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 22, 2025

    ______________________________________________________________________ Empathy My love, I’m grateful tonight Our listing bed isn’t a raft Precariously adrift As we dodge the coast guard light, And clasp hold of a girl and a boy. I’m glad we…

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  • “Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise”: David Lehman on Thomas Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”

    June 20, 2025

    from SLATE  JAN. 22 2013 9:19 AM “Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise”

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  • Baseball-Music Quiz [by Alan Ziegler]

    June 20, 2025

    Which one does not belong with the others?

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  • How does a human fly? Dilo Paulo knows [By Tracy Danison]

    June 20, 2025

    Dilo Paulo dances his solo piece, “Ekesa Sanko”. Photo courtesy June Events 2025 © Dilo Paulo Dilo Paulo, born in Angola but now working from Brazil, did a solo dance show called Ekesa Sanko…

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  • Expect, suppose or avoid: the novel’s universal gambit? [By Sean Ashton]

    June 20, 2025

    Cover, "Massive Massive Oil Slick". Courtesy Sean Ashton To anyone who has never tried to write one, novels might seem like they are conceived whole: a glittering prize that the author just had to…

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  • NYSP::IOU – Elinor Nauen / David Beaudouin

    June 19, 2025

    NYSP :: IOU is a series devoted to exploring a single question: how has the New York School of Poetry (NYSP)—its aesthetics and shenanigans—influenced contemporary poetics in general and certain poets in particular?  …

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