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  • The Assignment [by Walter Carey]

    November 28, 2021

    “The only virtue in life is survival,” Sanders said with his typical swagger and thick irony. “There is nothing heroic about the ‘survival of the fittest,’ a blasphemous notion and not a democratic one.…

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  • Reuben Jackson: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    November 28, 2021

                                        ______________________________________________ November Poem   It’s the first cold November evening. I am out driving And there…

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  • Reuben Jackson: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    November 28, 2021

                                        ______________________________________________ November Poem   It’s the first cold November evening. I am out driving And there…

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  • Rest in Poetry and Peace, Robert Bly (1927-2021)

    November 27, 2021

    Robert Bly died last week. He was 94. I heard the news on November 22, 2021 and wrote: Yesterday was Robert Bly’s last morning.It was he who gave me the idea ofwriting a poem…

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  • Rest in Poetry and Peace, Robert Bly (1927-2021)

    November 27, 2021

    Robert Bly died last week. He was 94. I heard the news on November 22, 2021 and wrote: Yesterday was Robert Bly’s last morning.It was he who gave me the idea ofwriting a poem…

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  • “The Tempest” [by Alexander Lazarus Wolff]

    November 27, 2021

    Each shock and shudder pummels the shipas it cleaves through the waves. The updraughtbillows the sail, and combers floodthe storm-struck deck. Our crew, flayed by spray,squint ahead through the onslaught,making way to that island…

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