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Loss, Hope, and Gift-Giving: Teaching Iep Jāltok During the Pandemic

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We are hopeful not because what is lost can be recovered, but because an irrecoverable loss does not determine one’s sense of self and future.

Yi-Ting Chang November 3, 2020 Asian and Pacific Islander History, Cold War, poetry, teaching, The Pacific

Out of the Blue, Into the Black

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The Good Place’s finale reminds us of things we never knew — like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.

Alex Sayf Cummings February 1, 2020 philosophy, poetry, television

Like We’re in a Fistfight with a Fog

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“There is war, but always elsewhere,” poet Jillian Weise says of reading The Economist. Americans have been watching […]

Casey Baskin November 23, 2019 Aneurysms, media, social capital, television

Ungrateful Black People I Have Heard Of

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A poem by Donald John Trump

Guest September 9, 2019 African American history, Donald Trump, poetry

The Master Class Is Just Not That Into You

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It’s been a slow news week here in Batavia, Ohio, the taint of America. Apparently the Mueller report (kind of, sort of) came out, and liberals everywhere achieved an unbelievable tantric orgasm nearly two years in the making.

Casey Baskin March 24, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, feminism, gender, poetry, politics, the South, transgender

Joseph Rios Shadowboxes with Himself

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In Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations, Joseph Rios evokes the image of an imposing Rocky Balboa as he opens […]

Guest October 18, 2017 book reviews, Fresno, poetry

Gary Soto, Oranges, Politics, and the World of Fresno

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The Gary Soto Literary Museum is, unarguably, the “smallest, cutest, cleanest museum in the country.” In Fresno, California, […]

Guest August 24, 2017 Fresno, poetry

Poem: In the Redaction of the Fake 45th

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Reading the April 23, 2017 interview transcript between the Associated Press and the fake 45th President of the […]

Guest May 8, 2017 Donald Trump, poetry

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