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National Poetry Month, Day 21: “Eat the Sinew’s Disbelief” by Amy King
Eat the Sinew’s Disbelief You will never be great, no shirt, no shoes, no servitude. Just a regular Joe, Josephine who walks around, has thoughts, and makes way for Whitman. You’re John the Baptist, a footnote, not your own story.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
See, I told you the answer was sugar. There are people who’s job it is to figure out what colors trees could be on planets with multiple suns. A look at the first fantasy magazine ever. Admittedly, this is pretty…
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National Poetry Month, Day 20: “Not light’s version” by Michael Klein
Not light’s version A child from the past: We always knew the world would crack open like this, in our lifetime.
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FUNNY WOMEN #51 (INAUGURAL AUDIO EDITION): Ayn Rand’s Headcheese
The Atlas Shrugged movie has opened–and we have the antidote. Rebecca Coffey recorded and musically scored (really!) “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese” recipe. Listen or download the podcast here.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Letters of Note on Einstein’s one great mistake. Iranian kids books are pretty great, can we agree on this? The internet exists so I can spend all day listening to whale sounds. Vaguely related: also you can listen to King…
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National Poetry Month, Day 19: “Deer between fallen branches” by Ely Shipley
Deer between fallen branches Snow fills the eyes of the winter animal. She’s like a photograph of himself as a child, feet dangling over the side of a boat, skimming
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/18-4/24
This week in San Francisco…it’s the 105th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, 4/20 is celebrated Dude style at the Red Vic, and Friends of the Public Library is having a book sale!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #83
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Unsolved Mysteries.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/18-4/24
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul reads with poet Nick Flynn at powerHouse Arena, spend Earth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news dudes, medicine doesn’t work in space. All your T.S. Eliot picture needs. Russian underwater creatures are even cooler Water towers of Ireland. (Because, really, why not?) Anthropomorphic koalas and endless pie.