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  • Mannequins

    June 30, 2009

    These photos, taken in Ithaca by Richard Rand, seemed so suggestive to us, and so evocative of certain noir films of the 1950s, that we thought we would base an informal challenge on them.…

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  • “Shearing Day” (by Laura Orem)

    June 30, 2009

    Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.One for the master, one for the dame,And one for the little boy who lives down the lane. Seems like a…

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  • Sally Ashton, Guest Blogger June 21-27

    June 25, 2009

     This week we welcome back Sally Ashton as our guest blogger.  Sally Ashton’s new prose poem collection, Her Name Is Juanita, (Kore Press) will be out this summer.  Her work appears in the forthcoming…

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  • A randy pun

    June 25, 2009

    Did you hear about the health-conscious nymphomaniac? (I'm cutting away in case you're offended by smut)

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  • California Dreaming (by Sally Ashton)

    June 24, 2009

    I'm sitting on a porch at sunset in the middle of woods with a glass of white wine writing this by hand. The yat-yat bird (I've never seen it so I can't identify it)…

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  • Said the teak dresser to the tedious woodworm?

    June 24, 2009

    My God, you bore me.  

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