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Karen Sagstetter: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo [detail] by Diane MacEachern _______________________________________________________________________ No Crying in Baseball No crying when I struck out swinging.No crying when a runt smashed…
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Emily Alexander Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
REVERENCE AND IRREVERENCE AT THE SAME TIME “Meredith Is Crying and I Am Too” by Emily Alexander http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2019/august/alexander-meredith.html One of the greatest things a poem can do is pull a surprise laugh out of…
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“When I Heard the Learn’d Urologist” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Where were you when televisions Multiplied in American homes And pastel-colored cars had fins On which at least once a boy Chasing a ball stabbed himself And the fins, like kings, died out? I…
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“Smoking in Heaven” [by Robert Hass]
Watching young poets in the early eveningSmoking on the terrace outside the poetry reading,I wondered if there would be a smoking terraceIn heaven. I have a friend, dead now,A Catholic who was unimpressed by…
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Happy Birthday Jacques d’Amboise [by Alastair Macaulay]
Jacques d'Amboise, during an interview with former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, 2016. Find the interview on YouTube here. July 28, 2020 – The happiest of birthdays to wonderful Jacques d’Amboise, eighty-six…
