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Poem for My Stranger
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Three Stories After Illustrations by Lou Beach
By J. Robert LennonMy earliest memory of my father is terribly sentimental—it is of his lifting me gently from the ground after my fall from a swing. I must have been three. I fell flat on my face on the hard bare dirt, and father ran to me and cradled me in his arms and made jokes and funny faces until I forgot about my pain.
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When Lore Bores
By Oliver Lee BatemanIn the nineties, video-game developers were fixed on the idea of interactive storytelling—a cul-de-sac that led to rich, inventive adventure games.
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Two Koreas, Ten Portraits
By Suyeon YunThe South Korean Photographer Suyeon Yun was eight years old when she saw her first North Korean. It was 1981 and she was watching TV. “I was totally shocked by his appearance. He had a human head! Maybe I was a dumb kid, but my curiosity was bigger than my stupidity.
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Art & Photography
Television
By Anne StevensonHug me, mother of noise. / Find me a hiding place. / I am afraid of my voice. / I do not like my face.
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Poetry
Ode to Albert René Ricard
By Gerard MalangaI speak of one whose triumph / is like his own despair / “a prison we all carry”; / his spirit eager for love / which is his only recognition.
