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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Dave Hansen is executive director of Authors Alliance. Thomas Leonard is university librarian emeritus and professor of journalism emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. We can, however, stand with Internet Archive as it fights for the right to buy, preserve and lend books, which is what libraries do.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Was it Dylan Thomas (“Do not go gently into that goodnight”)? Eliot, according to the essay’s author, Matthew Walther, not only made poetry more academic, obscure, and abstruse and stripped of rhyme and meter, he broke the link between poetry and nature, erasing poetry’s concern with the transcendent and the sublime.

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