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‘Be wary of windows’
"Young women, be wary of windows
as you sit shuttling needle through a full
white moon of cloth. ...”
So opens the poem “The Fall” in a...
Charles Bukowski uncovered
Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game...
Eyes on the prize
It was a run-of-the-mill Tuesday morning in Boulder for author and longtime University of Colorado professor Marcia Douglas — until it wasn’t. After ignoring...
Mapping our history of violence
Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps.
“Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...