Barley Literate

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Friday, June 9, 2017

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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Wade in the water....

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Friday, December 30, 2016

Virginia Founders were patriotic, and more....

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

The "tyranny of the majority"....

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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

That kid on the beach....

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Monday, December 26, 2016

The melting pot thing....

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Kids could ask the darnedest questions....

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Sunday, December 25, 2016

Abraham Lincoln, the visionary....

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Saturday, December 24, 2016

An American Indian leader

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Friday, December 23, 2016

Listening to the sea....

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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Who wanted democracy?

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Stepping out for the long journey

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Yearn, my heart.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

Speak truth to Trump

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

"...back eddies of the world..."

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

A wolf knows....

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Friday, December 16, 2016

"All they do is talk...."

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Book review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses A book that makes language an erogenous zone…. Read the full post on my new website: Ple...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

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An impulse of the eye....

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Guess who wasn’t coming to dinner….

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Not too many black doctors actually showed up for dinner in 1967…. Read the full post on my new website: Please go to the webs...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

How to buy a top post in Trump administration

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Trump is surrounding himself with rich and powerful people…. Read the full post on my new website: Please go to the website to...
Monday, December 12, 2016

the madding crowd....

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The madding crowd…. The Earth’s human population is up 6.4 billion in the last 200 years….this growth rate is going to stop…. Read...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

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That shell at Bethany Beach

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On finding a shell at Bethany Beach You’ve seen one like this, the one that isn’t “just” a shell…. Read the full post on my new w...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Book review: The New England Poets

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Book review: An Anthology of the New England Poets Almost 35 poets, spanning 340 years, with rich bios of these iconic scribblers…. ...
Friday, December 9, 2016

We said "Revolution," the British said "sugar islands"....

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Book review: An Empire Divided by Andrew O'Shaughnessy King George and his ministers wanted the Caribbean sugar islands more th...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

“…make no unsettling sound…”

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A poem: it was a joy to see what I always see, in a new way…. Read the full post on my new website: http://richardsubber.com/make...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Toil and trouble….and craziness

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Toil and trouble….and craziness My book review of The Witches: Salem, 1692 ….a community gone crazy…. Read the full post on my ne...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

You can hear immensity tapping....

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My review of Jane Hirshfield’s poem “Tree” Listen….you can hear immensity tapping…. Read the full post on my new website: htt...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania My review of this Larson thriller, the consistent tension that makes it a pa...
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