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No, Mr. Gershwin, Your Hat is Not a Pocket (by Jenny Factor)
In honor of entrepreneur-poets and flag day: "It was always an exciting moment when land was finally spotted. Passengers saw Long Island first, though they probably weren’t aware of it…People grabbed their belongings, tying…
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“For Victims” by David Shapiro
For Victims They have used the bodies Of children as improvised bridges, which later they cross. First the sun and the moon, then the earth comes in But they have lost The…
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The Martini and Modern Art
<< In their different ways Igor Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong took the raucous clangor of the twentieth century and humanized it, making it abstract and musical. The martini takes the bitter coldness of modern…
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Poetry Quiz: Are you an Entrepreneur-Poet or a Worthy Word-Beggar? (by Jenny Factor)
Editor’s Note: Since Friday is the classic day for Pop Quizzes, here’s one (entirely cheek-entongued): The Worthy Beggar is earnest. She works hard at her craft, becoming the best poet she can be. She…
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Triskedekaphobia
February 13 [1998] It’s Friday the 13th and I wonderhow the superstition got started.I’d always thought it was becausethere were thirteen diners at theLast Supper but I recently saw aa documentary about the KnightsTemplar…
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Maggie Wells in Free Lunch!
Six poems by Maggie Wells highlight the latest issue of FREE LUNCH magazine (Spring 2008). Here’s one of them: A Plan or Suggestion Were it not for your breastsand high voltage hair the worldwould…
