Ploughshares
The poems in this issue stand out above the stories. Particularly Bruce Smith’s “Through the Agency of Al Green” and Dean Young’s “Coming From, Going To.” (Ploughshares offers content online, but links change daily.) Local poet Kevin Young is the guest editor, and in his introductory note he mourns the closing of the Plough and Stars (where the mag was founded) and the death of old Cambridge, with a hopeful note at the end when he finds out the Plough would make a comeback: “maybe not everything has to disappear after all.”
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Heritage hangout, Just Visting, Letters to the Portland editor: September 29, 2006, More 
- Heritage hangout
Modern times are tough for the Greeks.
- Just Visting
What's the difference between Mexican and American comedy?
- Letters to the Portland editor: September 29, 2006
War is art
- In war and love
PBRC'S A Time of Fire burns slowly
- El Potro
Like a Mexican wrestling luchador, El Potro hides its true identity under a mask.
- Living theoria
This spare spiral that Constantin Brancusi traced to capture the likeness of writer James Joyce describes the sort of journey involved in what Joyce called the “sedentary trade”: using one’s life as the material for one’s work, each working and wandering into and out of the other.
- Fair game
There is a big difference between games that are consciously edgy or controversial, such as Postal or Super Columbine Massacre, and games that are intended as nothing but exploitive pornography, such as Custer’s Revenge.
- Forward thinking
Letters to the Boston editor, November 14, 2008
- Start the revolution without me
To judge from recent movies from that country, everything in Romania is going to pot. Except Romanian movies.
- Changing worlds
On the USM philosophy department's home page, I noticed Karl Marx’s famous lines from Theses on Feuerbach: “the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it.”
- Full Friday
I experienced a Twilight Zone shift in reality last month while walking the streets of Philadelphia.
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