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Oh Yes, He Did
I confess I am one of those people who never took Truman Capote seriously. Or, maybe, I am just the only person who failed to do so. Either way, those days are now over. “A Diamond Guitar” might...
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Seen and Felt
Poetry bears witness to events that surround it, sure. But it is not the news. It is not an opinion column either. It dips its slippery toe into telling, showing, and expressing so as to permit each...
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May’s Poet of the Month
Every couple of months I like to feature a poem by a gifted emerging writer. This month, I would like to feature a poet and several of his poems. His name is G.M. Melvin and here is his bio, in his...
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Un-adult-ered
I recently began reading my first parenting book and it’s blowing my mind. Granted this one is more of a spiritual guide, and what sold me is that its introduction is by the Dalai Lama. The book...
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Domingo 3 and/or Sunday 3
A few of the poems from my book “Entre domingo y domingo” were published last month in “Jai-Alai Magazine.” Since “Jai Alai” is a multi-lingual literary review based in Miami, they were interested in...
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Another Poem by May’s Poet of the Month
THERE’S FOG There’s fog. Then, there’s people landing planes at all hours. There’s dogs chasing birds on runways. And one way those people in those towers can plan to, and see to, land planes is the...
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The Parable of Mom, the Dork
After reading several YA novels and a mystery novel with a cross-dressing detective, my pregnant brain felt ready for something more serious. So I tried reading an experimental postmodern Russian...
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Final Poem by May’s Poet of the Month
It Amazes Me How I Heart the Hazy Art I tried to maintain straightfacedness “Photography.. Is taking paintings’ places At our public art palaces.” Said a sad man in line, up ahead, “Imaginably.....
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Ayatollah Didn’t See It Coming
From Roula Khalaf’s stupendously interesting article “Iran’s ‘Generation Normal,'” in this weekend’s Financial Times.
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The Way of Smallness
I never had a crush on any of my high school or college professors. There is no writer that I’ve dreamt of stalking. Deep down, J.M. Coetzee’s thin, tragic eyes give me the chills, and Jeffrey Sachs’s...
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A Happy, and Clean, Home
According to this week’s Economist, men who help out around the house have a higher chance of not being dumped by increasingly picky and independent women. Also according to the magazine, a home...
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At Every Wedding
Not many young adult authors launch their novels with a poem, much less a two-page piece that transcends their target demographic. So I was surprised to find the poem below on the very first page of...
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The World as Habit
From the now-classic “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaardner, a novel about the history of philosophy disguised as a peaceable mystery read.
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The Natural Condition
Wise men have been prescribing the same medicine for centuries… From Jostein Gardner’s book “Sophie’s World.”
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An Idle Parent Is
An alert friend and reader recently sent me this terrific excerpt from British author Tom Hodgkinson’s book “The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids.” It summarizes the...
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Worst Writing of the Year
Lately, I read little else other than a GRE test-prep book. So no, I don’t have incredible literary passages to share. But today I read a question so terribly written that it may be the poorest...
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Stay Inside
The other day, I read a poem whose beginning I didn’t quite like. But, it was weird enough to keep me hooked to its very last line, which made me laugh out loud and reread the poem several times,...
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Credit Where Credit Is Due
Just read the above book review on Milan Kundera’s latest novel “The Festival of Insignificance” and felt like chucking the paper itself across the room. Maybe Kundera’s last oeuvre isn’t up to par...
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Yellow Tomatoes
Thrilled that VerseWrights published my poem “Yellow Tomatoes” this month! I once thought I could know anything The death knowledge of the Buddha The clarifying call of Gabriel Former lives and...
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