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Five Poems by Paul Klee
With some process notes starring D.H. Lawrence, Harry Nilsson, and The Incredible String Band.
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August 2024

Jean Paul Richter on Love and Friendship
A short excerpt from The Senior in Jubilee
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On Being Reviewed
In which I quibble about a good thing that is happening to me
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Feelings Before Friedrich's Seascape by Heinrich von Kleist
A review of Caspar David Friedrich's "The Monk by the Sea" which appeared in Kleist's newspaper, the Berliner Abendblätter
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July 2024

Poets of Poets
On the supposedly untranslatable
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Actual Churning Dirt
"The history of the spirit is dressed in that of circumstance."
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June 2024

More Table Scraps from Jean Paul
Selections from the Senior in Jubilee
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Summer Approaches
On a Cloudpleasing Day
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May 2024

Event Announcement: From the Convergence Zone (5/21 6PM PST)
Via the UW Bothell MFA Program
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Strange Tales from the Ancient Capital
I have some new fiction, “Three Booksellers”, available to read courtesy of ergot.
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April 2024

Talk about Trees
On German lyric poetry between Brecht and Hilbig
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No Time Is Timely
On the early poetry of Robert Walser
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