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Happy new year, everyone! L'shanah Tovah!

on The Best American Poetry

L' Shana Tova: "For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly" [poem by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

Molly with Stick, Cayuga Lake, 1981 (c) Glen Hartley For I will Consider Your Dog Molly For it was the first day of Rosh Ha'shanah, New Year's Day, day of remembrance, of ancient sacrifices and averted calamities. For I started... Read more

"Days of Penitence and Awe" [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

The haiku form, whose virtues begin with enforced concision, can function well as a stanza in a poem that tells a story or makes an argument, or so I found in 2007 when, for a month and a half in... Read more

A Tour of the Throrgrmir Citadel

on Stephen Wendell

As it is the dragon’s ingress to the subterranean domain he wishes to subjugate, the Throrgrmir Citadel is the focus of the Valormr Campaign. The campaign begins with the dragon’s raid on the citadel’s ramparts. The Chaos Armies invest its... Read more

Perfection Wasted [by John Updike]

on The Best American Poetry

And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market — the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the... Read more

Letters and Comments from All Over: an End of Summer Special

on The Best American Poetry

<<< On August 10, 2021, Barbara Lemon said: I was very interested and studied "New Trilling Essay the Talk of the Town" at my leisure. To be honest, I really liked it. In fact it displays a high level of... Read more

"Picnic" on Labor Day [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

<< Hal Carter (William Holden), a football star in college and a failure at everything since, hops off a freight train with nothing but the ragged shirt on his back. He arrives at a last resort: the small town in... Read more

Valormr: Rules for Strategic Map Campaigns

on Stephen Wendell

When I set out, at the beginning of the summer, to describe strategic-level play in the Valormr Campaign, I hadn’t the idea to write a set of rules. Tony Bath’s prose is completely coherent, and the rules he outlines in... Read more

"When Charles Bukowski Met Bob Dylan": A Contest

on The Best American Poetry

As we head into Labor Day weekend, we announce a new contest: "When Charles Bukowski Met Bob Dylan" With this as your title, write a maximum of 14 lines (verse) or 140 words (prose). Post your entry in the comments... Read more

September .. Terry Pratchett, The Human Condition and Fantasy, Jack Zipes Discoveries.

on Robert McCarty

"Fantasy is a different approach to reality, an alternative technique for apprehending and coping with existence. It is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. . . . Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe." Ursula K. Le Guin Read more

The Essay Project: Sharon Olds' Little Memoirs

on Cher Scholar

More memoir as essays. What works and what doesn't. Read more

Valormr Orders of Battle

on Stephen Wendell

In a wargame, one normally begins with a number of army points, with which to buy figures, respecting general proportions defined by the historical or fantastical context. In a campaign, the points are allotted for the duration, augmented by a... Read more

'Maris & Mantle' Author-Signed Books Now Available

on Tony Castro

With the Covid Delta variant now making public book store signings so iffy, here's a no-contact safe way of getting your author-signed copy of the soon-to-be-released MARIS & MANTLE dual biography. @TriumphBooks #MarisMantle http://tonycastrobooks.com Read more

Rare Document Announcing the Retrieval of Fallen Soldiers of the Bataan Death March 1945/6

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Overall Post 5140 This short announcement1--a carbon copy of a press release from the US Army Forces Western Pacific, Public Relations Office--while only reaching 150 words or so, establishes a very compelling and passionate statement on... Read more

Deployment

on Stephen Wendell

“All these rules can lead to some interesting and unusual battles and will make a change from the stereotyped affairs of both forces deploying on the baseline” (Bath, 84). In the strategic rules, we endeavor to limit interference with tactical... Read more

Throrgrmir Citadel Under Construction

on Stephen Wendell

“As they mined the ore, the dwarves dug tunnels and built dormitories, treasure vaults, and workshops. Soon they caroused in a drinking hall, and a citadel enclosed the surface entrance to their underground domain.” —from “Throrgrmir’s Golden Age” Having friends... Read more

Avoid, Evade, Delay, and Withdraw

on Stephen Wendell

Contact and Deployment “Avoid, Evade, Delay, and Withdraw” is the fifth of six parts of “Contact and Deployment” in the Valormr Campaign. A disengagement operation is conducted when a commander wishes to avoid map contact, evade an engagement, delay an... Read more

Engage or Evade

on Stephen Wendell

Contact and Deployment “Engage or Evade” is the fourth of six parts of “Contact and Deployment” in the Valormr Campaign. Once the opponent’s force size and composition are estimated and the terrain upon which a battle may take place has... Read more

Conspicuous Poetry Products: Poems in Valentino Ads

on Cher Scholar

Product placement in poems ending up in advertisements. Read more

New Chapter Published on Inkitt: Rise of a Heroine: Resurgence YA Superhero Novel

on Catherine GV

Hello, folks! Are you missing Miranda Kane like me? Well, I've got good news: there's a new chapter of Rise of a Heroine: Resurgence up on Inkitt for you to read for free! In this chapter, Miranda, overwhelmed by remorse at her supposedly incapacity to save her best friend during the assault by Thomas Lance, goes to visit Amy, her bestie, at the hospital. As the chapter progresses, the two friends exchange strong emotions and tears as well as hard truths. Miranda's also starting to get into her head that something needs to change... and maybe she'll be the one to bring it about. Read more

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