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When Band Names are Like a Poem [by Emma Trelles]
above: ¡Socialismo Americano! album cover/Mister Entertainment & the Pookiesmackers below: Zira's guitars Humbert, The Holy Terrors, The Postmarks, Kill Miss Pretty, The Gruntled, Bling Bling, Map of the Universe, Tongues of the Heartworm, Mister…
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Visiting Paris, or, A Short Meditation on Death [Eleanor Goodman]
Right around the time of my last birthday, I started to think seriously about death. I spent the next several months writing and ruminating on the emotional fallout. I was reminded of that time…
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Cetonaverde Congratulations [by Moira Egan]
[the prize ceremony looks up to this view] We over here in Hot Hot Bella Italia are very pleased to pass on the news that our friend and poet-we-like-to-translate MASSIMO GEZZI has won the…
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Land Fishing [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, The Rolling Stones are making it hard for me to garden. I am thinking too much about the underground. Live on the green side of the grass (forget walk on the sunny…
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Lions of Chicago [by Emma Trelles]
This is me, not seen, sitting on the front steps of the Art Institute of Chicago in June and listening to Lisel Mueller's poem. Here's a beautiful bit of it. Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say…
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“Cuerpos”: Five Spanish Poems [by Kiely Sweatt]
Kiely Sweatt, spending the year in Barcelona, has been writing poems in Spanish and then translating them into English, an experience she characterizes as adventurous and scary. Here is "Cuerpos," meaning "Bodies," the collective…
