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Postcards from a Charged World
Yes, there was an election. But the world is full of so much more than that. Pictures and notes from Notre Dame University and Chicago.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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On the Silk Thread of Invention
A season for spider poetry. The marriage of E. B. White and Katharine Sergeant Angell White. Poems by Timothy Steele and Sarah Freligh.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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The King of Rock and the Queen of Heaven
A happy anniversary. How I met my husband. A story about Elvis and the rosary.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Memento Vivere
Celebrating the life of Eric Liwanag (April 18, 1972 - October 14, 2023)
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Centuries in Hours
Tips on how to read a 200+ page book desperately fast
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Grapple Friends to Your Soul with Hoops of Steel
On the importance of artistic communities. This is how I found mine.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Midweek Mess O’Books
About John Donne, George Herbert, Geoffrey Hill, Jane Greer, George David Clark, James Matthew Wilson, Anthony Hecht, and more...
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Call Me by My Name: A Primer
The story of how I got the name Zina and all my other names.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Cake as Poiesis
Celebrating 50 years at Frost Farm with three tiers of poetry inspired baking. Exploring the Greek and Latin roots for what I am: the amateur poet.
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As Mnemosyne Would Have Wanted
Celebrating my birthday early at Frost Farm, the New Verse Review, an unpublished ekphrastic poem, and (yet another) an argument for memorization.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Nourishing Souls One Turon at a Time
On Filipino food at the Lowell Folk Festival, Aristotle’s De Anima, and Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb. Plus: Plato and Joseph Pieper.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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Mrs. Jack’s Palace of Impermanence
On the centenary of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s death: a crime scene, a museum tour, a mini-memoir, a bit of biography, and a brief look at four books.
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Zina Gomez-Liss
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