Monthly Archives: October 2013

Emily Yoffe: Don’t Empower My Rapist

Emily Yoffe: Don’t Empower My Rapist by Kirsten Clodfelter Last week, Emily Yoffe wrote an article urging young women, especially those on college campuses, to stop getting so drunk if they’d like to reduce their risk of being sexually assaulted … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOANNA CHEN

I WILL ALWAYS GO BACK By Joanna Chen I will always go back to my brother’s voice, not yet fully broken, counting to ten, the leaves crackling underfoot, the snag of an oak branch on my old red coat as … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ORIT GIDALI

KOHELET By Orit Gidali, Translated by Marcela Sulak I, Kohelet, was king of Jerusalem, I really was. Treading over a thousand flowers on my way to the white bed where my wives waited to remove the crown from my head– … Continue reading

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A Marvelous Mosaic: A Review of Budget Travel Through Space and Time

  A Marvelous Mosaic: A Review of Budget Travel Through Space and Time by Vincent Czyz Albert Goldbarth has been regaling us with his unique experiments in verse for more than 30 years and has twice won the National Book … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MARCELA SULAK

By Marcela Sulak: THE CASTING OF LOTS 1. Dear Ahasuerus, it is eleven-thirty am and my number is one hundred and eighty-six. I feel the lack of communion striving for a higher purpose in this government assistance office, and it … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOHN BREHM

TIME OUT By John Brehm I cannot save her, she will be broken, is broken, will be broken again and again, this little girl, five or six, in a grubby pink dress, black hair, fat cheeks, hard black eyes on … Continue reading

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