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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The airplane mechanic's father
Monday, March 17, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
On hearing of the demise of the Wilson Center in Washington, DC
I had an internship with _The Wilson Quarterly_ for a summer after college. Hardly a site of radical activity, it was a place where people gathered to think and do journalism. I ended up writing an essay on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, which was published in 1989, a year before I moved to Hawai`i. Here: https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/undefined/marianne-moore-and-elizabeth-bishop
This archive is likely to disappear, as the current administration just announced the elimination of the Wilson Center: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/
Today also brings news of websites being "scrubbed" that reflect on American diversity, including those devoted to African Americans, Asian Americans and Women (Americans) at Arlington Cemetery. And elsewhere.
So, I put this long ago essay of mine up to preserve something of my archive. But it, too, will likely disappear.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Lilith balks
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
My review of Deborah Meadows's BUMBLEBEES
Please find the review here. Deborah Meadows is a very fine, very smart, poet. https://www.ronslate.com/on-bumblebees-poems-by-deborah-meadows/
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Social Security checks for the dead
Saturday, March 8, 2025
The death of the cemetery walker
https://www.valley-of-the-temples.com/obituaries/rand-berkline/obituary