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  • L’ Shana Tova: “For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly” [poem by David Lehman]

    September 6, 2021

      Molly with Stick, Cayuga Lake, 1981 (c) Glen Hartley For I will Consider Your Dog Molly    For it was the first day of Rosh Ha’shanah, New Year’s Day, day of remembrance, of…

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  • “Days of Penitence and Awe” [by David Lehman]

    September 6, 2021

    The haiku form, whose virtues begin with enforced concision, can function well as a stanza in a poem that tells a story or makes an argument, or so I found in 2007 when, for…

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  • “Days of Penitence and Awe” [by David Lehman]

    September 6, 2021

    The haiku form, whose virtues begin with enforced concision, can function well as a stanza in a poem that tells a story or makes an argument, or so I found in 2007 when, for…

    Continue reading…

  • Indran Amirthanayagam: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    September 5, 2021

                                          ________________________________________________   Last Dance   I was setting aside a room in my mind to…

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  • Indran Amirthanayagam: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    September 5, 2021

                                          ________________________________________________   Last Dance   I was setting aside a room in my mind to…

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  • Perfection Wasted [by John Updike]

    September 4, 2021

    And another regrettable thing about deathis the ceasing of your own brand of magic,which took a whole life to develop and market β€”the quips, the witticisms, the slantadjusted to a few, those loved ones…

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