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“The Professionals” [by Laura Cronk]
Who decorates movie sets, sitcom stages,the kitchens used to advertise paper towels?Who decorates doctor’s offices, the suiteof offices of a university president, ofa Wall Street accounting firm? Who chosethe paint color for the…
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Emerson on Compensation
<<< And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends,…
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“Cats” [by James Cummins]
When Eliot wrote his thesis at Harvard,He said philosophers doing philosophy was “ridiculous”—That two thousand years of this insanity had gone onBecause they tried to explain existenceFrom the point-of-view of a platform outside it,Which…
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An Interview with A. E. Stallings [by Aspen Matis]
A. E. Stallings is the author of four books of poetry: Archaic Smile, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax, which won the Poet’s Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin…
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“Dutch Interior” — in Dutch [trans. Marcel Vanslembrouck]
from Ambrozijn 39ste jaargang nummer 1 2021-2022.
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More Words that Marked Me [by John Foy]
Earlier this year I was put to thinking about lines of poetry that meant a lot to me. This began when the poet Gerry Cambridge, who edits a fine, international literary journal in Scotland…
