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James McMichael

Poetry

Spring 1998

Posited

By James McMichael

   That as all parts of it agree in their low resistance to flow, so can it be agreed to call it water. To say of water that it floods both […]

Nonfiction

Summer 1989

James Joyce Speaks

By James McMichael

He began, the old 78 recording begins: “Mr. chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since […]