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  • Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!

    January 1, 2021

    This year’s list items entering the public domain in the United States includes several notable works from 1925, the year the British Broadcasting Company called “the greatest year for books ever.”

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  • “Forces”

    December 14, 2020

    Original poetry from Veritas Journal.

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  • Veritas Journal Now Accepting Poetry and Works of Short Fiction

    December 2, 2020

    Veritas Journal is pleased to announce that we are now accepting poetry and short works of fiction for occasional publication.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving from Veritas Journal

    November 25, 2020

    Only the empty nests are left behind / And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.

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  • Backward Miracle

    November 6, 2020

    Every once in a while, we need prose, not poetry, says the poet. We need just the vessel with the wine and nothing more. We need a single loaf and the single fish and that is all.

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  • Not Many Wise, Not Many Noble

    September 29, 2020

    Inside the ‘museum’ was a pile of artifacts — four-hundred-year-old Bibles, sacred heart pictures, a reproduction of the shroud of Turin, old motorcycles, more dinosaurs, and a neon sign that read: “Jesus Saves.”

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  • 2020 New York Encounter: Crossing the Divide

    January 29, 2020

    Are you hungry for an extended engagement with reality, for something that will awaken you more fully to the human condition? Consider joining us at the New York Encounter, February 15th through the 17th.

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  • Public Domain 2020

    January 9, 2020

    Gutsy piano students everywhere can now legally photocopy Chopin’s Préludes as they sweat over its tangled passages.

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  • What’s In A Translation?

    December 30, 2019

    Every year when I read the Iliad with my students, I pick up a new translation. I laugh out loud with delight when I read fresh characterizations of old characters. Odysseus described as a complicated man or Agamemnon as a drunkard. I love it when ancient heroes or villains shout contemporary phrases. "You’re both whining," says Nestor to Agamemnon and Achilles. Did ancient Greeks whine? Of course they did. Then of course I love comparing translations and seeing how translators grasp the tragedy of the poem.

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  • Tolkien’s Other Stories (Book Recommendation)

    September 6, 2019

    If you have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or maybe even the Silmarillion, it might be time to explore some of these or other of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories.

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  • Jan 01, 2021 Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!
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