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  • “Hulk Smash!” [by Greg Santos]

    April 15, 2009

    Hulk Smash! I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.-Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” Hulk know. Hulk have a problem.Hulk took break from Avengers after orphanage and tanker…

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  • I saw a woman on the train reading poetry!

    April 14, 2009

    All this hoo-ha about print culture and/or poetry being in decline…  Well, I see – get this! – actual regular people reading poetry… in public places!  Some of these real-life readers are toting books…

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  • “Why Women Love Horses” [by Nancy Carpenter Czerw]

    April 14, 2009

    Why Women Love Horses You can kiss them on the neck and it's not cheating.You can kick them in the sides and it's not beating.You can spread your thighs, and when you're overheating,You can…

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  • “A Note for a Rainy Tuesday” (by Laura Orem)

    April 14, 2009

    Like all of you, I have been pondering the apparent suicide of the poet Deborah Digges. I didn't know her. But I have lost someone I loved very much, also a poet, to suicide,…

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  • Another poem by Deborah Digges [by Moira Egan]

    April 14, 2009

    I am so sad to hear of the death of Deborah Digges. She was one of my professors at Columbia; in fact, she was the instructor of my very first graduate workshop. Over those…

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  • A Poem by Deborah Digges

    April 13, 2009

    "Darwin's Finches" 1 My mother always called it a nest, the multi-colored mass harvestedfrom her six daughters' brushes, and handed it to one of usafter she had shaped it, as we sat in front…

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