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“How like a winter hath my absence been. . .”
Sonnet 97 How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!What old December's bareness everywhere!And yet this time removed was…
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“The Power of the Fragile”: When Jocasta says “no” quid Oedipus? [By Tracy Danison]
“The Power of the Fragile” by Mohamed Toukabri. Photo © Christian Tandberg The last time I saw my mother she was in a hospice bed, barely alive; I can’t remember the year. I grabbed…
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“Social Security” [by Terence Winch]
Social Security No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.Even in the safety zones, it’s not safe.Even safe sex is not safe.Even things you lock in a safeare not safe. Never deposit anythingin a…
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On Schubert’s Birthday
On Schubert's Birthday Even the dog is asleepon the last day of January,Franz Schubert’s birthday.The classical stationwill surely play his string quartetsand songs, and if I have to drive,the electrons of my mind canescape…
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Cassandra Atherton: Why Prose Poetry? [Nin Andrews]
I was listening to the New Yorker Fiction podcast the other day, to Teju Cole reading and commenting on Anne Carson’s beautiful story 1=1 when I heard, early in the podcast, Deborah Treisman point…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 31, 2024
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 31, 2024 with graphic Yesterday Scribner released Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures following her 2018 debut book Ghost Of. Diana once again uses her skills as a visual artist—this time her…
