Where mathematics meets God,
where the cacophony of every human voice is harnessed
into an ordered and purposeful whole —
that’s where you reside. Yet
how unlikely, how perverse even,
that your name should sound like someone
clearing his throat,
preparing to expectorate in a most unmelodic way.
The quadrennial Olympic Games are often visually spectacular, emotionally stirring and wonderfully sexy. A civic virtue they are not.
In September, Los Angeles will be “awarded” the right to host the Games in either 2024 or 2028. Great, right? A wonderful boon for our city, right? Ask the people of Rio de Janiero what they think.
And the people of Rome, Hamburg, Budapest, Krakow, Stockholm and even sports-mad Boston — all cities that have withdrawn…
Writer, poet, artist, improviser, lyricist, former television personality, and generally decent person.
While the wheels of popular culture churn onward in a cynical race to the bottom, America’s literary journals continue to showcase stirring, innovative, utterly necessary work in the realms of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, essays and impossible-to-categorize hybrid forms. So multifarious and numerous are these excellent journals, many of them affiliated with universities, you could...
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