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Amy Gerstler: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________ Lost in the Forest I'd given up hope. Hadn't eaten in three days. Resigned to…
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“Estelle” [by Molly Arden]
Mom was somewhere north of the kitchen watching the new girl, Estelle,sashaying in her crisp apron with a dust-mop.The bed posts trembled when her poofpassed over them as if they were living men. Molly…
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Between the Lines [by James Cummins]
after A Moveable Feast We only have Papa’s account of this,That Scott Fitzgerald asked him to weigh inWith ‘absolute honesty’ on the questionThat filled…
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Introducing Emily Dickinson, part 1 [by David Lehman]
Emily Dickinson is one of the chief glories of American poetry because, in her poems, she weds originality of vision with an idiosyncratic style raised to a rhetorical ideal. Her characteristic utterance is the…
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The Importance of Martin Guerre, part two [by Joe Lehman]
Ed. note: Part one of this discussion of "Martin Guerre" was posted here on February 12. I have been poring through the lyrics of the various songs from Martin Guerre the musical. The moment…
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Making of an Opening [by Lera Auerbach]
"Opening" by Lera Auerbach The Absence of Trees You knowyou're getting closer to the North when trees disappear. The world without trees. At first, you don't notice that the trees are missing. Then you…
