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  • “Monroeville, PA” [by Ed Ochester]

    June 26, 2020

    One day a kid yelled "Hey Asshole!" and everybody on the street turned around   from Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New by Ed Ochester (Autumn House, 2007).

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  • For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Grisel Y. Acosta

    June 24, 2020

      Ways of Seeing My Brothersby Grisel Y. Acosta 1. You are precise artisans, designing aircrafts meant to soar above the altocumulus, or pumping air pulsating through twists of brass trumpet, pressing fingers down on…

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  • “On Nature” [by Lawrence Joseph]

    June 24, 2020

            And the puzzles surrounding the cosmological constant,        spacetime imploded into existence. Ten to fifty years        between asbestos breathed and mesothelioma        discovered, a rare form of cancer in the lungs        or…

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  • Met Percent: Week Twenty-one [by Alec Bernstein]

    June 22, 2020

    POV . . . LOP Enlarged detail and inset painting: Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes, Marie Denise Villers, 1801, gallery 629. In my corporate days, I lived with many a LOP, a list…

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  • The meaning of standing [by Tracy Danison]

    June 22, 2020

    Beach at Jaffa, Israel, during lockdown©Felice Ross 2020 Sacred. Between earth and sky. Connected. Holding hands. Reaching down. Stretching up. Eye and see. You. In the middle. A bird on a branch on a…

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  • The Handbook of Sex Tips [by Molly Arden]

    June 20, 2020

     I was on the S bus, staring out the window, wishing I didn’t have to write The Handbook of Sex Tips for Women of a Certain Age, a book which was to just another one of…

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