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Flavor of Words: Brian Selznick and Paul O. Zelinsky in Correspondence
And how do you understand the meaning of “work”? The term has rankled me ever since I was an undergraduate art major, standing in awed incomprehension of my professors’… More
Another Writer Receives A Lengthy Prison Term
Dissident writer Chen Xi was sentenced to 10 years in prison on December 26, 2011, for “inciting subversion of state power” in essays published on overseas web sites. More
Selected Poems
Even the wind wants / to become a cart / pulled by butterflies. More
The Torture Report
Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 pages of government documents relating to the abuse of prisoners by U.S.… More
Breathlessness
I was so crazy tired that I said the word ‘slumberland’ under my breath & it took on the charge of invective while it also made a hoop which… More
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
Samuel Morris Steward was born July 23, 1909, in Woodsfield, the seat of Monroe County in southeastern Ohio, a county bordering on Appalachia, and in many ways just as… More
Signs indicate that more political prisoners in Myanmar may be released
During U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's historic visit to Myanmar last month, she said that even one political prisoner was one too many. Now, there are signs that… More
dance of the holy ghosts
It’s so hard for me to keep track of you—your coming and going, moon and half moon. When you please, how you ‘apparition.’ It’s hard on a man’s mind… More
Burma’s Key Dissidents
Myanmar marks the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain this week. The leaders of the country, also known as Burma, used the occasion to announce a prisoner amnesty—reduced… More
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Your / Kisses / Your / Sky / Your / Darkness / Your / Sky More