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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

A Classic of the 20th and 21st Centuries: "The Gulag Archipelago"

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Fifty years ago, I was a copy editor at the Beaumont, Texas Enterprise. In December of `973, we began receiving a series of alerts from the ...
Monday, May 9, 2022

"Brisbane" by Eugene Vodolazkin

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It begins with a chance meeting on an airplane, traveling from Paris to St. Petersburg. Gleb Yanovsky, a world-famous guitarist, is seated n...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Anna Akhmatova and the Poetry of Resilience

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She was born to an upper class family in what is now the Ukraine in 1889. Her father called her poetry decadent, but more as a commenta...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Poets and Poems: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and “Prussian Nights”

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It was first job out of college. I was a copy editor at a newspaper in Texas. Turnover was high, and with a few short months I was No. ...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

When Writing a Poem Could Get You Arrested

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(This post was originally published at The Master’s Artist, which still exists online but is no longer publishing new material. From ti...
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Professional writer exploring faith and culture, life and work; happily married to Janet, the love of my life; father of two grown sons. Award-winning speechwriter and communication consultant. I am an editor for TweetSpeak Poetry and the author of the novels "Dancing Priest," "A Light Shining," "Dancing King," and "Dancing Prophet;" the non-fiction book "Poetry at Work;" and the historical novel / romance "Brookhaven."
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