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  • Robert Hershon Presents a Poem by Hettie Jones

    April 11, 2010

    This poem by Hettie Jones appears in her most recent poetry collection Doing Seventy. Praise                        for Marie Ponsot All praise the midweek market,the first-of-the-season sexy zucchinisgazing up from their crowdedboxes All praise the cherries,…

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  • Science Poet Jennifer L. Knox Teaches Us About . . .

    April 10, 2010

    Thanks, Jennifer — sdh

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  • “A Jar of Wine” [by Elizabeth Howort]

    April 10, 2010

    Why not take a jar of wineand each day visit the arch?You can place sandbags at the dooras I wind the stairwell up. The roof opens wide:a stretch of park lengthens.The traffic below is…

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  • Moon and River [by Emma Trelles]

    April 9, 2010

    8:50 a.m., Thursday, somewhere over the South:   I’m on a plane to Denver, and the range of clouds below me appears carved and forested, their sides a sheer plummet of pale slate and…

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  • A Poem from “It was the season, then.” [by Amy Allara]

    April 9, 2010

    As this week is the AWP conference in Denver I was prompted to share a poem by Sarah Suzor, who is in attendance and gave a reading last night at Plus Gallery. Sarah is…

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  • How to Sell a Musical Instrument [by Amy Allara]

    April 8, 2010

    When I recently returned to my stack of Etude magazines, I came across the following:   The first ad is titled “Sister Susie and the Steno’ Job” and I assure you that I am…

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