An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College
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Our Fall-Winter special issue, number 232-233, centering on personal essays on film, is out now!
Essays Archives

True Believer: My Friendship with Cynthia Ozick

Merrill Joan Gerber
Poetry

A Possum Entering the Argument

Tom Healy

Salmagundi No. 162-163, (2009)

Poetry

London. High Summer.

William Logan

Salmagundi No. 176 (2012)

Poetry

Water Damage

Rosanna Warren

Salmagundi 158/159, 2009

Poetry

Porch Steps

Robert Pinsky

Salmagundi No. 124-125, 1999-2000

Poetry

Commas, Dashes, Ellipses, Full Stops, Question Marks

Vijay Seshadri

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Scandal Mad and Boy Crazy

Elizabeth Benedict

The Shipwrecked Mind:

On Political Reaction

Patrick J. Keane
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Peter Gizzi’s Now It’s Dark: The Music of Survival

Exoticism Redeemed:

Patrick Leigh Fermor in the Caribbean

Bina Gogineni
Poetry

Pieces

Adrienne Rich

Salmagundi No. 14, 1970

Poetry

Tutelage

Chase Twichell

Salmagundi #144-145 (2004-2005)

Poetry

Toxicology

Henri Cole

Salmagundi No. 148/149, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

Poetry

The Snake in the Garden

Paul Matthews

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Watching House of Cards in the Age of Donald Trump

Amy Woodbury Tease

Bughouse:

Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s

David Herman
Interviews

On “Privilege”:

A Conversation with Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Robert Boyers

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Salmagundi No. 197-198, Winter - Spring 2018

Excerpts
I’m writing like a chimpanzee, which means primitively and fluently.
This excerpt appears in Postcards , by

Anne Sexton

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