Apr '03 [Home] Essays

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Composing Staggerlee: A Journal by Paul Winston My Beauty and the Beast is about family, loyalty, sacrifice; Staggerlee is about the choices which have to be made when the only two are anarchy or evil. I don't like the person who is committed to finishing Staggerlee. If April is the Epic Month:  Petri Liukkonen on Finland's Kalevala [pending] Seeing the Orchestra by Leo Vanderpot Classical music concerts are fun for me these days. I can say this because last summer I learned some important ways to handle the distractions that can pop up with classical audiences, whose members are sometimes guilty of more than just coughing. The Accomplished and the Insufficient:  What Readers Should Ask From a Poem by Thom Ward The accomplished poem thinks and sings, sings and thinks. If it finds itself offering large, complicated ideas, it does so most effectively with small, crisp words.