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“Horizontal Women” [by Amy Gerstler]
from Amy's new book, Index of Women (Penguin) Horizontal Women Women free-falling, fainted, or overcome, arms raisedor flung. Women mostly young and unsung. Womendiving for pearls. A girl tossing her curls, or out coldmid-clinch.…
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“My Ego” [by Amy Gerstler]
This week we are showcasing poems by Amy Gerstler from her new book INDEX OF WOMEN (Penguin). Three poems will appear, each at 10 AM, in honor of the college course catalogue's "MWF at…
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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________ “Gone” “Irk” was one of my dad’s favorite words. Mom liked to pick up on teen lingo. She…
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The Cat of Montserrat [by Lera Auerbach]
My memory: meeting a Montserrat cat –she is sitting beneath Pablo Casals’ sculpture –the true owner of his bronze cellowith whiskers sniffing mountain air.It is Fall. It’s sunny, but the air is already keeping…
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Road to Damascus [by Mitch Sisskind]
He called them baby, honey, sweetie,Darling and things of that nature;He mastered the lost art of flattery;He said you're looking good tonight;He said let's get the show on the road;Weekends he whisked them off…
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Letter from London (Ten Years On) [by David Lehman]
It was spring in November, raining but once in the course of five days and that a mild midnight sprinkle, and one day the temperature climbed almost to the sixties, and you needed only…
