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Monthly Archives: April 2012
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOAN LARKIN
AFTERLIFE By Joan Larkin I’m older than my father when he turned bright gold and left his body with its used-up liver in the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain. I don’t believe in the afterlife, don’t know where he is now … Continue reading
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre loom over twentieth-century thought. It is hard to imagine feminism, leftist politics, literature, philosophy, or queer studies in the twentieth century without these two giants. Their work has been the topic for hundreds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Okla Elliott, Simone de Beauvoir
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HANNAH FRIES
By Hannah Fries: BUT SEE how an orchid is made to look like sex, or specifically, like the tachinid fly who has landed on a leaf to flash her private parts in the sun, opening and closing so the light … Continue reading
A Crisis in Bahrain
Leave it to the people to make the news and try to spread it. When it’s left to the big newsmakers, the news is nothing more than a short report about the “situation” somewhere. The world paid attention to … Continue reading
From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich
From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich by Chase Dimock How do we account for and preserve a writer’s power after she dies? At the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, any researcher who wants to access … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, feminism, Marie Curie, Nuclear Power, Poetry, Queer Studies
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RYAN ZWENG
“Birth” by Ryan Zweng. THE DEATH OF POP by Ryan Zweng The world is ending, or at least the Old World is. Let’s assume that history will paint this epoch as a crucial moment in social formation; a time when … Continue reading
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SUSANNA LANG
REMEMBERING By Susanna Lang What has kept the world safe . . . [has] been memory. — John Hersey But we forget, don’t we? Not what happened, but the thickness of it. The rough edges of the table on the … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOHN MCKERNAN
By John McKernan: MY GREATEST CRIMES Were at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Near Huntington Long Island Where I walked impudently across the lawn With its large sign DO NOT WALK ON THE GRASS Where I ignored the small warning DO … Continue reading
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