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“A Message on the Machine” [by Tom Disch]
Hello Tom. The day has come round at last the day appointed for our meeting, the day you are to die and I decreed to be your executioner.So you must look your best.If…
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Have you ever seen the goddess dance? Dorothée Munyaneza does Radouan Mriziga’s “Akal” [by Tracy Danison]
Dancer, singer, choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza. Photo © Maya Mihindou Believe it or not, my critical skepticism evaporated when I saw the golden horns. A second before, Akal’s mythology is contrary to fact, its suppositions…
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Two Prose Poems [by Nin Andrews]
"Yes" and "Never Say Yes" (by Nin Andrews) Yes Orgasms are bad news. In the town where I grew up, orgasms were against the law. No one had an orgasm, not even God. By…
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Hanukkah ca. 1960 [by Lewis Saul]
There I am stage right with older sister Wendy; and Lynn (z'l) and little bro, Alan. It looks like I got some kind of game — but it was Lynn who knew what I…
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Catullus, Sappho, and Jackie DeShannon [by Susan Brind Morrow]
Catullus (above left) is the best translator of Sappho (right), managing to create both a sense of the original and something that stands as an original poem on its own. Catullus was (according…