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Mike Schneider: Appreciating Charles Simic (1938-2023)

In the distance our great leader
Crowed like a rooster from a balcony, 
Or was it a great actor
Impersonating our great leader?

August 22, 2025 · 15 Comments

Baron Wormser: Remembering the Alchemists & Other Essays 

One sentence speaks for all his direct, well-wrought sentences: “We are inside the largest militarist society the world has ever known, and we are at war always.”

January 11, 2023 · 1 Comment

Mike Schneider: Faith, Poetry, and James Baldwin

Prague Writer’s Festival, 2017 1. America on the Hot Seat A large pleasure it was this November (10th through 16th) to visit Prague (with my friend Jan) as tourists, Americans … Continue reading

November 30, 2017 · 6 Comments

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