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From Last Lullaby for My Son
“I was afraid I’d hurt him. Before he was born, I was afraid that I would hurt my son,” Kelle Groom writes of her infant child in her memoir, “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl.” read more
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Blog Tashkent
Melons
August 12, 2011
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
—Charles Simic read more
Keeping Cool in Tashkent
August 2, 2011
When it’s 107F/42C under a cloudless sky, shade is especially sweet. On the campus of Tashkent International School, above, and along Babur Street on an early morning run. read more
Tags: outdoors
in Tashkent
July 30, 2011
“Outside the gate, on your way into the market,” I learn at dinner on my first day in Tashkent; I had been looking for the region’s famous melons. read more
Anna Akhmatova
July 10, 2011
The pillow hot
On both sides,
The second candle
Dying, the ravens read more
Tags: poetry
Writing in a Time of Violence
June 12, 2011
In my last year in College
I set out
to write an essay on
the Art of Rhetoric. I had yet to find read more
Tags: poetry