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Poets of World War II
I wanted poems that would inspire deserved admiration for those who fought and died in that war.
Jan 9
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Brad Skow
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On thought-rhyme; or, parallelism as a poetic technique
Poems don’t need meter, in our free verse age.
Nov 29, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Publication Day
Today American Independence in Verse takes its first halting steps into the wider world.
Nov 4, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Found / Things
“Why don’t you assume you’ve written your book already—and all you have to do now is find it?”—So Steward Brand wrote, in an email to Brian Eno, and so…
Jan 3
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Brad Skow
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The first on the scene
I have a duty to love and care for these children (namely, mine).
Dec 20, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Free Indirect Style: A Theory
Free Indirect Style is a technique for communicating a character’s thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
Dec 14, 2025
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Brad Skow
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The Devil Quoting Scripture
Recently I picked up a book of Great American Speeches and found, to my disappointment, that the speeches of the nation’s founders were followed by a…
Dec 6, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Rudolf Hoess Interviewed at Nuremberg
Rudolf Hoess Interviewed at Nuremberg Those were my orders, and the way they came Compelled belief and blind obedience. I was to enlarge the camp, build…
Nov 22, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Everything Old is New Again: The Scarlet Letter
While in jail, the ghostbusters study the blueprints of the apartment building that, it will turn out, is a portal to a demon world, and they notice…
Nov 16, 2025
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Brad Skow
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“I was like a wounded animal...”
The worst pain I ever felt was a broken arm.
Nov 8, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Naive Reviews: John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Part 1
The moment of greatest ecstasy, in any of the Holy Sonnets I-IX, is in Sonnet VII:
Nov 1, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Julius Streicher Interviewed at Nuremberg
Julius Streicher founded and edited the anti-Semitic German tabloid Der Stürmer.
Oct 25, 2025
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Brad Skow
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The Leftovers
The loyalists were American colonists who rejected independence.
Oct 19, 2025
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Brad Skow
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Young American
George Washington’s complete writings run past thirty-nine volumes, a bit much even for the father of a country.
Oct 11, 2025
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Brad Skow
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