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  • Silent Music [by Lera Auerbach]

    January 28, 2021

    Leitmotifs Photo by Lera Auerbach     At the Marlboro Music Festival, returning home at night – my door was covered by moths. I opened the door quickly as not to let them in,…

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  • An Interview with Terence Winch [by Aspen Matis]

    January 28, 2021

    January 21, 2021 You are the author of eight poetry collections, a short story collection, and a collection of non-fiction stories, and your first novel, Seeing-Eye Boy, was published in October of 2020. What inspired…

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  • Judith Hall Presents a Poem by Terrance Hayes

    January 28, 2021

    A Small Novel The protagonist spends the first twenty pagescrossing a bridge wearing nothing but redswimming trunks and sneakers with no socks. I can remember standing nakedoutside my neighbor’s window at fourteenwhen I read…

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  • “Platonic Love” [by Curt Anderson]

    January 27, 2021

    We dine at Adorno and return to my Beauvoir.She compliments me on my Bachelard pad.I pop in a Santayana CD and Saussure back to the couch.On my way, I pull out two fine Kristeva…

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  • Shema [poem by Primo Levi]

    January 27, 2021

    Shema You who live secureIn your warm housesWho return at evening to findHot food and friendly faces: Consider whether this is a man,Who labours in the mudWho knows no peaceWho fights for a crust…

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  • Dispatch From A Distance – Hunting Season [by Cara Benson]

    January 27, 2021

    Look closely “Rifle’s done.” This from a neighbor I crossed paths with when I was out for a walk and he to shovel out his mailbox. We spoke from opposite sides of the road,…

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