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News Flash: “The Best New Zealand Poems”
<<<<The Best New Zealand Poems series, begun in 2001 is an annual online selection of poems chosen by guest editors. The program is run by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University…
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The Gravity of the Situation [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, You know when you have just figured out that working in the garden zens you out about as well as the more problematic intoxicants and then the building next to your outdoor…
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Women Poets from the Generation of ’27
Concha Méndez with her husband Manuel Altolaguirre Concha Méndez. Josefina de la Torre. Rose Chacel. Carmen Conde. Ernestina de Champourcin. These are names one rarely hears mentioned in connection with the Generation of ’27. Yet these…
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In View of the Fact [by Stacey Harwood]
Just last Tuesday we got the call that David's mother had taken a turn and that she was being moved from home hospice care to the hospice wing of her local hospital. I…
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Mother’s Day [from “The Daily Mirror”]
The brain has chamberson different floorsa warren of officesupstairs a librarya wine cellar belowbut the soul is simplelike a mother whopacks your lunchboxand you walk homewearing the raincoatshe made you takethough it is sunny…
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Firewalking (by Laura Orem)
It's been a tough week for a lot of people, a week of loss and trouble and scary things. Like many of you, I've been trying to get some kind of psychic handle on…
