By Brian Turner on April 28, 2010
If a body is what you want,
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
the aorta’s opened valves, the leap
thought makes at the synaptic gap.
Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish
what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet,
here is where [...]
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By Kirby Olson on April 28, 2010
Love should remain still as the sun, yet burst!
Love is hot. Love reveals.
Love opens the heart’s cathedral —
the congregation ululates!
Love is not mere.
The sun lasts a few billion, or so,
simple years.
Love always persists.
Love never ends!
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By Kirby Olson on April 28, 2010
What is left of time for
me or you?
Subtraction
is the melody of God
as we disappear,
a trickle of kingdoms
in the sand clock.
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By Kirby Olson on April 28, 2010
Is it true that I like to confess?
The days linger like shadows in the evening.
At seventeen I considered suicide from a small bridge,
& now almost laugh at the evening.
Things don’t go as well as hound dogs
chasing prisoners through the evening.
Beechnut gum is made in Canajoharie
as the hired men smoke with the evening.
I have nothing to [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on April 20, 2010
Blogs
Eunomia
A veritable garden of unorthodox thought, “Eunomia” is cultivated by Daniel Larison and bears the imprimatur of The American Conservative. Larison is something of a “front porch republican,” an antiwar traditionalist skeptical of all great concentrations of power. His blog is essential for those alienated from our tit-for-tat politics, and offers erudite [...]
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By Christina Cozzetto on July 9, 2009
I finally broke down and read Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, over winter break this year. Curiosity was my entire reason for reading it, but that curiosity came from several different sources. One was how the series as a whole has been touted as the next Harry Potter, and how there seemed to be a significant [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged book review for twilight, christian book review twilight, May 2009, twilight book review, twilight book reviews, twilight books review, twilight novel review, Volume VII Number IV
By The Brown Spectator on July 7, 2009
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop is a libertarian candidate for RI Representative in District 3, Providence. Dr. Harrop is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University and an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. In addition to his faculty positions, Dr. Harrop also maintains a private practice of psychiatry. In an interview with [...]
Posted in Culture, Lead | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Sean Quigley on July 7, 2009
Though I wish that I could write, “We are all elitists now,” the string of letters and columns which reacted negatively to Anish Mitra ’10’s recent column (The Brown Daily Herald, “A little elitism goes a long way,” Feb. 27) confirms that populism is still in vogue.
It seems, in fact, that the Sirens of democracy, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Stephen Beale on May 4, 2009
In this series, The Spectator will profile conservative intellectuals whose contributions to political thought are often ignored. Each essay will focus on the ideas, values, and sentiments of one particular individual, beginning with TS Eliot and continuing with other exemplars of the conservative tradition, such as Edmund Burke and John Adams.
In 1940 the great modernist [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged christian culture, christian society, conservative intellectuals, liberalism, modernist poet, November 2002, ts eliot, Volume I Number I
By Bryan Smith on January 28, 2009
For whatever reason there was a tremendous amount of anticipation surrounding the most recent meeting of the Corporation. Prior to this year I barely knew what the Corporation was, never knew when it met, and, to be honest, thought that this is the way it should be. I cannot overemphasize that the Corporation is doing [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
