Thursday, October 08, 2020

Poetry Matters: On the Occasion of the Canonization of Louise Glück

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  Louise Glück is the 2020 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.  When I read the news of the announcement, I rushed to my phone to s...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Poetry Matters: Bed Bug - Original

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Bed Bug 2018 You ensnare me in your web of silk sheets And crawl into my arms To mark me with your kisses And give me a rash of...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

TV Matters: Insatiable Reviews

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Insatiable, Netflix 2018 Insatiable, or rather the reviews of the show, exposes a leftist reactionary tendency toward a kind of...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Magazine Matters: Difference is Our Common Ground

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Why Autocrats Fear LGBT Rights  - New York Review of Books Masha Gessen In the penultimate paragraph of Masha Gessen's " Why ...

Poetry Matters: Lunar Lover Lesson: Original

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Lunar Lover Lesson A Moon shimmered at dusk over California Skies and I wanted to capture it for myself, Own it, but as I reached out...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Black Lives Matter: Judith Butler on the Necessity of Stating the Obvious

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Watch the full hour, but start here for a direct discussion on how people allow themselves to value one life and devalue another.  ...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

Poetry Matters: "In Response to Trees," by Lisa Hiton

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Cherry Blossoms 2013, Aaron Mosby Lisa Hiton , " In Response to Trees ,"  Two Poems , The Adroit Journal, Issue 12 For tw...