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  • Poems on His Birthday: Thoughts about Dylan Thomas on my 40th [by Daniel Westover]

    January 5, 2015

      In the mustardseed sun, By full tilt river and switchback sea     Where the cormorants scud, In his house on stilts high among beaks     And palavers of birds This sandgrain day…

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  • Daniel Westover, Guest Author January 5-9

    January 4, 2015

    Happy New Year! We kick of 2015 with Daniel Westover's return as our guest author. Daniel's poems have appeared in North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, Southeast Review, Spoon River Poetry…

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  • From the Underwater Version of The Godfather [a cartoon by Alan Ziegler and Forsyth Harmon]

    January 2, 2015

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  • New Year Poem by Philip Larkin

    January 1, 2015

    The short afternoon ends, and the year is over;Above trees at the end of the garden the sky is unchanged,An endless sky; and the wet streets, as ever,Between standing houses are empty and unchallenged.From…

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  • A Slightly Sad New Year’s Eve Story [by Alan Ziegler]

    December 31, 2014

        New Year’s Eve 1978 — I’m 31 and single. Harry Greenberg is in a similar (single-seater) boat. We decide to ignore New Year's Eve and go see a movie. Someone told us…

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  • Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2014

    © Leonard Freed – New Year’s Eve, Grand Central Station, NYC, 1969 "Salute" by A. R. Ammons May happiness pursue you, catch you often, and, should it lose you, be waiting ahead, making a…

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