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Posted on November 6, 2019November 6, 2019

A Kiss Risks a Prince: Recent Reading

Known by Salt: Tina Mozelle BrazielA fantastic debut by an Alabama writer. I won’t say much here as I’m in the process of getting my thoughts in order for an…

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Posted on September 26, 2019

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Party Zone: Recent Viewing

When Kanopy sent an email celebrating their Joel Potrykus collection it didn’t mean anything to me until I scrolled down far enough to see that he had made a favorite…

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Posted on September 24, 2019

My Earliest Poetry Experiences + An Exercise + A Poem

Shel Silverstein wrote the first poems I remember reading and they were frequently silly, but it was a silliness that kept me reading all of his work, some of which,…

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Posted on September 19, 2019

Verbing Nicias and Other Sundry from Plutarch’s Lives

In the ancient world, being a fierce warrior wasn’t enough. Nicias was known as a strong soldier, but a careful general, which was not smiled upon at the time. In…

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Posted on September 14, 2019

Little Billboards #6

Sometimes I can’t tellif she’s eating yogurt ortubes of clown makeup.

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Posted on September 8, 2019

Little Billboards #9

Her hand cups the rain,while my ears cup her laughter.Then–daylight thunder.

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Posted on September 6, 2019September 6, 2019

Omit Heedless Words: The Elements of Style According to Emma Woodhouse

Pride and Prejudice has been a favorite novel since college. I found it a difficult, rewarding book. I found the prose difficult initially, but I kept reading because I enjoyed…

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Posted on September 3, 2019

The Shilling of a Sacred Deer: Plutarch’s Sertorius and The White Fawn

I’ve mentioned my current long-term reading project is Plutarch’s Parallel Lives and how enjoyable the passages on Archimedes were. Another favorite sequence is on Quintus Sertorius. If you’ve read Shakespeare’s…

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