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  • “Don’t Come In” [by Angela Ball]

    July 6, 2020

    Don’t Come In          I prefer the sign “No Entry” to the one that says “No Exit.” – Stanislaus Lec If for you, women are toy carswhose wheels you strikeon the…

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  • Don Berger: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 5, 2020

                  photo by Peter Berger ___________________________________________________________________________________ Leaving the Tavern   How long should my morning be?  They've never known who I am but I don't feel time's gone…

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  • “You, Reader” [by Major Jackson]

    July 3, 2020

    So often I dream of the secrets of satellitesand so often I want the moose to stepfrom the shadows and reveal his transgressions,and so often I come to her bodyas though she were Lookout…

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  • For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Roberto Carlos Garcia

    July 3, 2020

    Down these mean streets, 2017, Roberto Carlos Garcia  from Mixtape for City Kids from Dysfunctional but Happy Families, Kids Like Me                                        (a new form )by Roberto…

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  • Jim Cummins Takes a Noir Detour

    July 2, 2020

    We date the “classic” noir period from 1941's The Maltese Falcon (or even Orson Welles' 1940 Citizen Kane, itself a mystery about Fate) to the 1959 Welles tour-de-force Touch of Evil.  But noir wasn't noir until the French got…

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  • “Lost” [by David Wagoner]

    July 1, 2020

    Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest…

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