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“Tuesday” [by Jennifer S. Flescher]
Tuesday A rain-strength scourslilac’s nectar-laden trumpets to dirt.Deluge, burying the bee’sclamor for sweet mouths wanting,wet, still near enough to thrivingfor belief. Windows shudderin their grooves, unbound. Bananason the counter, black past bread.So when you…
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Monday Musings
I’ve been enjoying the responses so far to our twenty questions. A number of respondents have managed to score a belly laugh or two from me, and I hope you, too, will enjoy —…
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Moira Egan’s Answers
Moira Egan is the author of Cleave. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? **Michele Kotler, Department of Education: Task Force on Poetic Expression/Self-Actualization among Underserved Youth (And…
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James Longenbach’s Answers
James Longenbach is the author most recently of Draft of a Letter. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? None. No poet knows enough about something other than poetry.…
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William Thompson’s Answers
William Thompson is Poetry Editor of Alabama Literary Review. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? Kay Ryan, Concisionist. 2. If you could send Obama one poem or book…
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“December 8” [by David Lehman]
December 8 [1999] Fathers die twicea year in Judaism my father died today twenty-eight years ago in the secular calendarand on 20 Kislev (November29 this year) in the Hebrew so I mourn on both…
