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“Having Been Turned Down (The World’s Leaders Don’t Want to Come to Dinner)” [by Laura Cronk]
Having Been Turned Down(The World's Leaders Don't Want To Come To Dinner) It's true that I used to be in a much worse mood. It's true that the lighting has improved.Here's to that. Star-lit…
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The Mondegreening of America [by Sharon Mesmer]
My first poetry teacher, Paul Hoover, once said to us (quoting Eliot — or was it Pound? I think it was Eliot): "All mishearings are poetry." Probably half of every poem I write consists…
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Thanksgiving and Black Friday [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
So in September of 2006 I got an email from an editor at the New York Times saying they wanted to publish a poem of mine. Huzzah, right? Right. Except, they wanted it to…
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“Possum” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Possum At night occasionally a possum Passes by peering in the window. It represents my sexuality. Prehistoric, Very slow moving, and the childrenWould be repulsed by it were They awake which they are not.…
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Ernst Herbeck [by Sharon Mesmer]
Here's Gary Sullivan's Ernst Herbeck site. Gary says, "Responses to these translations encouraged, especially from anyone who reads German."
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That previous poem was totally uncalled-for …
My apologies. Here's a much nicer one … When The Moon Turned Away I looked at the moon, and the moon turned away.I looked at the moon on the water,and the water turned away.At…
