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“In Progress” [by Tony Towle]
We adjust the backgroundso that I am still in a forest,but the traditional kind,not one made of cement and glass,but composed primarily of woodand auxiliary vegetal matter,aerated with avian sonorities,and partially veiled by “air…
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Sonnet 7/26/2020 (by Mitch Sisskind)
When you really need a wimpyYou get one. It was our mantraThose many nights awaiting Delivery of the Racing FormTo the newsstand on Diversey Even as we called a longshotLike Greystone Park a whale Or how…
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“Thinking” at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria (Summer 2006)
Two poems at Civitella Ranieri, July 2006 Thinking You see a man / trying to think. — Adrienne Rich Here an orange and black-spotted butterflytests the lavender. There a bee sipsthe yellow and…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
A memory of freedom forgotten by Maryam Ivette Parhizkar It comes seeking the legitimacy of history buteven that feels like a violence—that is: historyis narrative. The need to break the plotof itself. The field,…
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Bernard Welt: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Arthur Gary ___________________________________________________________________________ Sabbatical for Doug Lang We hear tales of a wonderful country called Wales Only Wales is wholly imaginary, like Middle Earth Or the Starfleet Academy There is no…
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Keegan Lester Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
HIGH ENERGY AND MOVEMENT “a river chipped with stars, night continues on without me.” by Keegan Lester http://www.poolpoetry.com/poet-keegan-lester.html What first drew me to David Lehman’s daily poems twenty years ago, and more recently the…
