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Against Witless Orthodoxy
For more, visit the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. And watch Cheryl Eagan-Donovan‘s fine documentary, Nothing Is Truer than Truth, currently streaming for free.Read More
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Koala Tea
I stole the idea for this from the indefatigable John Latta and offer my own version of it here because I thought his set-up was too offhand. A traveler who prides himself on making “local discoveries” is touring Australia and happens to stop for breakfast in a dusty Queensland backwater by the name of Murcie. The café is small but crowded—a good omen, he tells himself—so he takes a stool at the long zinc counter and begins to study the menu mounted high on the wall.Read More
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Mr. Dinh Goes to Santa Cruz
I strongly recommend Linh Dinh‘s series of posts on his sojourn in Santa Cruz (he spent five days or so in town before giving a reading on Friday, November 14).Read More
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Duty and Delight
Thankfully, Bill Knott has resurrected his blog, where he has been posting links to those of his collections that he is making available through his storefront at Lulu.com (both as bound volumes and as free PDF downloads). He’s also reposting some good material from his old blog.Read More
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A Conversation in Progress II
This continues my conversation with Reginald Shepherd regarding his recent post on Harriet. Of course, there they are mixed in with all sorts of commentary from other readers, so I’m culling the latest installments of our conversation for presentation here. ++++ Dear Joseph, Thanks for your thoughtful and eloquent comment. I think that we do in fact disagree, but I will try to clarify my position.Read More
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A Conversation in Progress
Reginald Shepherd has put a thought-provoking post on his Harriet blog, which you should read here before going on. I thought I should aggregate the exchanges that followed between Reginald and me, if only because it’s fund (for some people) to experience writers thinking “out loud.” +++ Here’s my initial reply: Reginald writes: “Art emerges from and is conditioned by its social context, but it isn’t determined by it.Read More