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Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.—
Brendan Ruberry,
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23 Sep. 2025 -
Archbishop Bernard Hebda addressed some 2,000 people at the vigil, where psalms were sung and the silences burrowed deep in the wide room.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Twin Cities,
28 Aug. 2025
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When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.—
Sesshu Foster,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2023
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His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.—
AudioFile Magazine
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Do not carve your poem into a coconut, even though that would be pretty cool.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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One Battle After Another, the sui generis 162-minute epic that’s now in wide release, is many movies in one.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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The studio didn’t pinch on pennies for Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s hyper-contemporary action epic, spending more than $130 million before a global marketing campaign.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2025
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The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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