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. Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the...

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. On Scotland Police were inundated with over 7,000 calls in the first week following the passage of Scotland’s Hate...

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. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in...

. Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.”  (Actual dialogue...

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. A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even...

. The Sultan’s Aging Son Recalls the Hippo Hunt “The Hippopotamus Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1616 “The sultan...

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. Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity They sacrifice true historicity, So DEI trumps authenticity. But Bridgerton and Netflix, they don’t care,...

. Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To...

. Carmen by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) translated by Bruce Phenix Carmen is thin—a dark-brown line Of bistre rings her gipsy...

. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those...

. Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned...

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. The Cartographer of Neverland inspired by a Qatar funded-map, in a Brooklyn public school, that erases Israel I’m late,...

. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...

. Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn...

. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the...

. If I Have Gone To Sleep If I depart in early sleep__And cease to be with you,My thoughts I'd...

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. On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar?...