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Crow
Crow laughs atop the scorching back of Summer, as all earth’s creatures seek the shadow’s cool. As sunlight makes the cornstalk writhe and shimmer, he shouts derision from a burning hill. And when the cooling fingertips of Autumn rebuff the sun and bring an early dark, he…
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Switchgrass
When I no longer exist, the field will still be blossom in spring, all gorged on green. It is difficult but necessary to be happy about this, to hope the word blossom will survive. I was born with the right set of bones for the wrong kind of yearning. The sky is wide […]
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Eating Our Words: Everything AI Is Missing Out On
When I can’t type, I read; when I can’t read, I cook. —M. F. K. Fisher A friend in the hospitality industry asked if I would lead a poetry workshop at a conference in Durham, North Carolina. The organizers wanted to offer the participants a creative interlude—a lighter approach…
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Civilizational Collapse
What cineaste wasn’t exhausted by the avalanche of discourse surrounding Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? In the weeks before and after the film’s mid-July release, I sometimes felt that most of my waking hours were spent reading, discussing, and thinking about what quickly…
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Dancing in New York: In Search of a Style
Since Susan Jaffe took the reins at American Ballet Theatre at the end of 2022, people have been wondering what direction the company would take under her leadership. It was not an easy time to step into this position. The company, like all of the performing arts, was just…
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From Xanthus: A Hippiad
A. Zoonotic Zoonotic—the first word of the unwritten epic starts with Z. It begins very small, with a bacterium inside a flea. A flea on a mouse, the rodents drawn to the stables in the camp first, with their spillage of grain, and to the heaps of garbage beyond the slave…
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The Marabout and the King
We ragtag men still see ourselves as part of the army, but it has been years since we had any contact with home. We have been wandering town to town all this time. Home may not even exist anymore. Who is to say that Urubash, the city of our longings, hasn’t already been…
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The Crystal Shop on Gouraud Street
There used to be a crystal shop in Beirut, on Gouraud Street, near the beginning more or less, after the lone gemmayz tree in the middle of the road, whose roots cracked and bumped up the asphalt and which someone was always saying the municipality should uproot (and someone…
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Jefferson Agonistes
Of the many intellectual sins of our time, one of the deadliest is what historians call “presentism”: the act of judging past attitudes and actions by modern-day standards. The most blatant example of this is the twenty-first-century outrage, richly justified of course, at the…
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“With people, sublimity never sticks”
I do not know whether there is any crossover between the poetry audience and the summer blockbuster movie-going crowd; but if there is, David Lehman’s new collection of poems should do very well, with Odysseus and Penelope currently reigning supreme at the box office and…