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Seamus Heaney, “Sloe Gin” 23 Aug 2013 | 02:05 pm
With thanks to Tom Farris Sloe Gin Seamus Heaney The clear weather of juniper darkened into winter. She fed gin to sloes and sealed the glass container. When I unscrewed it I smelled the distur...
Links, 8/17/13 18 Aug 2013 | 05:02 am
Some very good links, but it’s all really depressing. I hope to have some good news for us all soon: Matt Taibbi makes a powerful case that the federal government is getting a nice bit of profit from...
Want a literary magazine you can hold? Check out the Grub Street Grackle 18 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
Some grad student friends are doing a wonderful job of putting together stories and poetry. You can see some of their efforts at the website, but it’s the Kickstarter which really needs attention – pu...
Theodore Enslin, “Letzte Traum” 17 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am
for Margaret Nash and C. L. Letzte Traum (from Poetry) Theodore Enslin Comment: I was asked about slam poetry recently. I remember being blown away by several slam poets who had complete command of...
David Orr, “Busker with Harp” 15 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
Busker with Harp (from Poetry) David Orr For a birth The fact of the harp swells into the air, Alien and familiar and entirely too large, An elephant lost in the suburbs, And opens with its cry a...
I’ve Got Mail! 14 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
From a letter sent me on or around August 4th: The way you parse texts just amazes me. I was hoping you could provide a little advice, what direction I should be going in to hone my interpretive facu...
Emily Dickinson, “Winter is good – his Hoar Delights” (1316) 14 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Winter is good – his Hoar Delights (1316) Emily Dickinson Winter is good — his Hoar Delights Italic flavor yield To Intellects inebriate With Summer, or the World — Generic as a Quarry And heart...
William Stafford, “Across Kansas” 14 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
Across Kansas (from Poetry) William Stafford My family slept those level miles but like a bell rung deep till dawn I drove down an aisle of sound, nothing real but in the bell, past the town wher...
Links, 8/13/13 13 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
Sorry for the lack of updates. Thinking a lot about dissertation chapters and writing slowly. Irritated at myself for not getting more done. The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia (h/t Amanda Ball): a lot of you...
On Philosophy and Religion 3 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
1. On the one hand, philosophy has nothing to do with religion. One can speculate about the cosmos without coming anywhere near a moral teaching. One can have radical political views from what might b...
