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Which happens today, and so I’m remembering Sputnik, October 4 ,1957. I’m in the third grade, Mrs. Smith is reading the class a letter to the editor from the NY Times or, more likely, the Long Island Newsday. Our pb&j sandwiches sit warming in brown paper bags, intoxicating in the sunlight through the windows, and […]
December 3, 2020
The doorkeeper’s feet are seven armlengths long five oxhides for his sandals ten shoemakers worked on them –Fragment of Sappho (110) translated by Anne Carson (If Not, Winter, Knopf, NY 2002) Why are these lines, fragments of lines—all that remain legible on a papyrus, a song of Sappho—sitting here atop this short piece on what […]
Jeffrey Levine 
May 24, 2025
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