Poetry
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Memory as revision
As I mentioned in my last post, I started this project with a few ideas about…
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It’s a date…but what’s that rooster got to do with it?
Mark your calendar, the Known by Heart poetry event will take place May 9, 2012, 7…
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Isn’t memory obsolete?
If you’re old enough, you may dimly recall a quaint time when people remembered each other’s…
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Why memory?
What triggered my interest in memory? Watching my father (Bernard S. Cohn, 1928-2003) devolve through the…
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What does it mean to know something by heart?
We’re saying that words—our own or a colleague’s or a piece of oral tradition—matter enough to…
Naomi Cohn 