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Poet’s Sampler: Ann Marie Thornburg

Owen Barfield wrote of the “felt change of consciousness” that occurs when a reader encounters a true poem. I read poems every day longing to experience that, and when I read Ann Marie Thornburg’s, I do.

  • Ann Marie Thornburg
  • Laura Kasischke
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Lollipop

  • Daniel Coudriet
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Breath

  • Daniel Coudriet
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By Some Miracle a Year Lousy With Meteors

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King
  • Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
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Frog and Toe

  • Caitlin Dube
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Hate Mail

  • Carol Muske-Dukes

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High Church

  • Timothy Liu
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His Legacy

  • Timothy Liu
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It Was a Rat That Carried Your Heart to the Sea

  • Kyle McCord
Class & Inequality Science

Apocalypse

There are no natural disasters, only social ones.

  • Junot Díaz
Philosophy Politics

Run For Office

Voting is important, but American democracy depends on another form of civic participation: running for office.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Law Politics Race

Qaddafi’s Dream

The man who imagines himself king of kings.

  • Robert P. Baird
Science

Vanishing Point

Few people have heard of Baird’s tapir, and fewer still know anything about them.

  • Niall McCann
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The Novel Is Not Dead

Despite critics’ best attempts to kill it.

  • Jess Row
Class & Inequality Science

Feast and Famine

India is growing, but Indians are still starving.

  • Siddhartha Deb
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The Shunting Trains Trace Iron Labyrinths

  • Ana Menéndez
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Hello, Columbus

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) Directed by Icíar Bollaín

  • Alan A. Stone
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Rational Rational

  • Joel Craig
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Prose, Thinly Disguised as an IKEA Superstore

  • Vincent Czyz
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Seed Vault (Corrupted Haibun)

  • Kerri Webster
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A Refutation of Common Sense

An Interview With John Ashbery

 

  • Adam Fitzgerald
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Metropolis, Restored Edition

Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, September 14, 2010

  • A. Van Jordan
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apoplectic birds

  • Julie Carr
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The Anatomy of Influence

An Interview With Harold Bloom

 

  • Adam Fitzgerald
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