Literature & Art

Poetry

Elegy for Nguyễn Quảng Đào

KIA near Tchepone, Laos 1971 February’s tired handcloses around the lilies.The night air like silk,streams of still waterhold the rotation of starsin your eyes. You arefeather, black wingabove the wounds,above the stripped brownmountains and treesthat

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Nonfiction

President Obama’s Literary Farewell

The Situation Room (ink and acrylic on paper 36”x 36”)Mary Behrens When I first picked up President Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, in 2008 when the President was on the campaign trail, I was

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