Week Eight

(Start with my first post if you’re unfamiliar with my lists.)

8/10/20

• Ruth Stone, “Loss” and Brenda Shaughnessy, “Ever” (poems)
• Alice Hoffman, “Choose to Plan for the Future” (essay)
• Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (story)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 Overture” performed by the Paris Opera, 2011 (music)

8/11/20

• Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” (music)
• David Wujahn, “Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born” (poem)
• Bette Green, “An Ordinary Woman” (story)
• Laurie Rachkus Uttich, “My Mother Returns to 1985” (essay)

8/12/20

• Caleb Tankersley, “Swamp Creature” (story)
• Jane Zwart, “Here’s to the Vivid Images That Did Not Change My Life” (essay)
• Feroz Rather, “Reflections On An Ordinary Grief” (essay)
• Linda Rondstadt, “You’re No Good” (music)

8/13/20

• Mary J. Blige, “Thriving” [featuring Nas] (music)
• Abbie Kiefer, “When My Mom Has Been Dead Eight Months, They Tear Down Lucky Lanes” (poem)
• Oliver sacks, “My Periodic Table” (essay)
• Haruki Murakami, “The Kingdom that Failed” (story)

8/14/20

• Li-Young Lee, “From Blossoms” (poem)
• Taylor Swift, “exile” [featuring Bon Iver] (music)
• Danielle Batalion Ola, “Ask Me Anything” (story)
• Neal Broverman, “Parenting in a World Gone Mad” (essay)

8/15/20

• Kitty Macfarlane, “Wrecking Days” and “Starling Song” (music)
• Jane Kenyon, “Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer” (poem)
• Aisha Saeed, “The One Who Defines Me” (essay)
• Anne Mazer, “Forgotten” (story)

8/16/20

• Anna-Marie McLemore, “Her Hair Was Not of Gold” (essay)
• Eudora Welty, “A Visit of Charity” (story)
• Nikky Finney, “Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989” (poem)
• — (music)

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