About nine years ago, I wrote an OpEdge article that in the idealized world of television commercials people care about their pets as much as they do about their children. At the time it seemed as if every other commercial featured dogs or cats, and in most, the animal was a best friend, family member, […]
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Minyan Magazine has just published my poem, “Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen,” my take on the Adam and Eve myth. Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen Some say it’s an apple, some say an orange or fig—hanging at arm’s length from one branch of a tree of life, the product of action, not action itself, […]
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The “Barbie” movie completes the conversion of Barbie from a symbol of paternalistic sexism to a hero of feminism.Nobody but old Boomers will remember that when Barbie first came out in 1959, it quickly became a symbol of women’ subjugation to traditional paternalism—her oversized breasts alone seemed to fulfill a man’s fantasy more than a […]
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I have two poems in the latest issue of Sin Fronteras. Here is one of them: WHY EVERYONE’S FAVORITE UNCLE MISSED THE WEDDING From table to table he goes like stations of the cross, from meeting to weeping to nailing. They eat each other’s salt and it tastes like flesh, they touch each other’s flesh […]
Countering Culture by Jessica de Koninck The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole (Owl Canyon Press, 2021) Stories of family trauma, parent-child relationships, and sibling rivalry are part of the human psyche. They are central to the opening stories of the Bible as well as to those of earlier traditions. In the original trauma, God expels […]
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In the “State News” section of the latest AARP Bulletin, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) solicits volunteer advocates in New York, Vermont, and other states to speak with state legislatures about a variety of issues. But nowhere in the publication does AARP ask for volunteers in the national fight to preserve Social Security […]
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Here’s an excerpt from the Fall 2021 issue of Main Street Rag: “Jampole’s experimentation is an intriguing, if sometimes challenging, way to stretch the novel form. Readers who are willing to put in a little work to digest the meandering poetic style will enjoy its freshness. There’s plenty to chew on for anyone curious about the impact […]
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