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 SPRING
2021
While
bureaucrats
across
the
world
try to
impress
upon us
the
necessity
of
abandoning
freedom
of
movement
and
association,
not to
mention
freedom
of
worship,
education
of our
children,
and, for
many,
making a
living,
all in
the name
of
protecting
us from
an
illness
that
has, at
present,
a better
than 98%
recovery
rate,
nature
moves
along
her
ordinary
paths.
Spring
has just
about
pushed
aside
the last
of
winter.
Magnolias,
tulips,
daffodils,
crocuses,
forsythia,
not to
mention
leaves
and
lawns,
are
emerging
from the
dull
background
of mulch
and
empty
branches
to light
the sky
and
perfume
the air.
In the
northeast
in
America,
the air
is still
bracing
in the
morning,
and
sometimes
during
the
afternoon.
But no
doubt --
spring
is here.
For this
spring
release,
we have
poems
from
C.B.
Anderson, Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant,
Sally
Cook,
Michael
Curtis,
Steven Duplij,
E.S.
Frese,
jr.,
Claudia
Gary, Pierpaola
Isoldi,
Wade
Newman, Carolyn
Raphael, Jennifer Reeser, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Charles
Southerland,
Frederick
Turner
and the
Webmaster. Joseph
S.
Salemi
has an
essay on
the
imposition
of
business
assessment
standards
on
academic
life,
which
certainly
affects
university
writing
programs
(and
their
students
and
professors).
There
was an
online
presentation
celebrating
the late
Frederick
Feirstein
just
recently.
Organized
as part
of the
online
West
Chester
Conference
on
Poetry,
hosted
by poet
Claudia
Gary, a
video
may soon
be
available. EPO will
let you
know.
Poet and
physicist
Steven
Duplij
was
award
the
Bunin
Award
from the
Russian
Union of
Writers
for
2021.
Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S.
Salemi
writes
on a
monster
that's
come to
colleges
and
universities
--
assessment.
Reviews:
Reviews
of
William
G.
Carpenter's
Eϸandun,
and
Karen
Kelsa's
Of Omens
That
Flitter.
Archives:
Divided
into two
sections,
New and
Old.
Online
Prosody:
As of now
this
will
remain
in the
Old
archives
until
editing
and
rewrite
are
complete.
Contributions
are
by
assignment,
as we do
not have
the
resources
to
manage
online
submissions.
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