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CalculationsThe algorithm slips hervideos of smiling monkeys,confused cats, dancing frogs, and dogs speaking of bacon.She glimpses reels bythe Metropolitan Opera,the Freelancers Union, andEncyclopaedia Britannica,but skips ahead toHeart some snakes in wigs,erratic emus, a pig named Bikini,cockatoos flapping to Queen, her pocket-sized theater of the absurd.Deadline unmet, errand not run, andthe room echoes with her laughter.Susan…
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This week’s poem is “Making a Fist,” by Naomi Shihab Nye. It begins, You can read the rest of the poem at the Academy of American Poets. “Making a Fist” is one of the first poems I read in a creative writing class at Columbia many years ago. I attended as a continuing-education student, and…
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