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Sonnet After Koch [by Mitch Sisskind]
If I could push a button and write A new Kenneth Koch poem I would push a button and write That I could push a button so We are hitchhiking again near Vallauris and…
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A Raw Fist of Roses: Seven Brief Reviews by Dante Di Stefano
The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It UpDavid GianniniDos Madres Press, 2018 David Giannini’s stylistically variegated new collection, The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up, swerves delightfully through an engaging series…
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Will You Write a Blurb for Me? What’s Your Book About? Why Do You Write Poetry? (by Nin Andrews)
I hate it when people ask me questions like that. These days I especially hate it when people ask me for a blurb. People I’ve never met, whose work I don’t know. I’ve…
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“Ghost Ship”: poem by Sonia Greenfield, video by Mike Gioia
Sonia is a poet who lives in Los Angeles. The fire struck her because she had frequented many artistic scenes similar to "Ghost Ship". Or in the words of her poem, she "had been…
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Wimbledon Update: Anderson, Isner, and History in the Making [by David Lehman]
The semi-final match between Kevin Anderson and John Isner wasn't supposed to be today's marquee event at Wimbledon. The other semi-final pitted two great champions, Novak Djokovich and Rafael Nadal, both of whom are…
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Johns [by Jennifer L. Knox]
John Cafferty is not John Fogertyand an ass is not a vagina. The lawyer said so. O!the slight, subtle distinctions between perfume and a urinal cake.Just because something works doesn’t mean everything workedout. Hit…