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“Pocket Theories” [by Caitlyn Pezza]
Why is life a perpetual preparationfor something that never happens? -William Butler Yeats Pocket Theories If I can’t pick up the ocean, how heavy is water? You tell me to try swallowing a…
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House of Cards: Whist versus Bridge (or the British versus the US Versions) [by David Lehman]
No spoiler-alerts needed here. We refuse to give away the goods. Only a week has gone by since the Netflix release of the new "House of Cards" and we have watched all thirteen episodes…
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My dear Miss Monroe . . . by Molly McQuade
My dear Miss Monroe, Of course, my letters to you are a kind of work-in-progress. Even by now, you barely know me, and I haven’t quite explained exactly why I want to write…
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The Last HaHa [by Sharon Preiss]
There were such nice responses both here and on my Facebook page last week when I published my farewell to Mobile Libris, I thought you might enjoy a poem I wrote a few years…
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Hating the Editor by [Molly McQuade]
My dear Miss Monroe, Ezra Pound was the one with whom you may have fought most memorably while you were the founding editor of Poetry and he was the magazine’s foreign editor. Maybe…
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Poet in Porkopolis [by Molly McQuade]
My dear Miss Monroe, Were you, founder of Poetry magazine in 1912, a good editor? Now, we cannot see straight…
