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Poetry and Shamanism [by Sharon Mesmer]
From Mircea Eliade: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy …. "It is … probable that the pre-ecstatic euphoria [of shamans] constituted one of the universal sources of lyric poetry. Poetic creation still remains an act…
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New “Coconut”
See the new issue of Bruce Covey's Coconut for fascinating new work by Nin Andrews, Stephanie Berger, Graeme Bezanson, Jackie Clark, Denise Duhamel, Sam Pink, Chad Sweeney, Eileen Tabios, many others.
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“The Men We Marry, The Men We Fuck” [by Jill Alexander Essbaum]
The Men We Marry, the Men We Fuck This one kissed me beneath the stars.That one fondled me up the stairs. This one confessed his sins but to God.That one demanded his pity aloud.…
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Judith Hall presents a poem by James Cummins
Tiresias You learn how to be a man from your father.Your mother teaches you how to be a woman.You have to fear becoming an old manbefore you’ll take on the wiles of the mother—her…
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Bavarian Gentians, by D. H. Lawrence
Not every man has gentians in his housein soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only darkdarkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom,ribbed and torch-like, with…
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Dear Poets and Bleaders — A Request [by Sharon Mesmer]
This summer at the New School I'll be teaching a literature/poetry course I've been wanting to teach for a long time: "The Muse Singing: Myth in Poetry from Classical Times to Now." Dear poets…
