Oklahoma writer Dorothy Alexander remembers fellow poet Jim Spurr, a true “everyman poet.”Jim Spurr left this earthy existence on Sunday, August 31, 2014, after having one of the best days of…
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Author’s note: It begins with a chance encounter at an airport and ends with a crash that no one walks away from.…
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Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is…
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The end of June marked the anniversary of the death of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking…
