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Five Colorful Election Day haiku [by Lewis Saul]
the sick red tide bloomspreads across the blighted landlike oozing cold pus look! A sinisterblack cloud enshrouds the desertpink chollas shed tears rippling sky blue creekso happy so free so purewhy are you choking?…
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“The Triumph of Bullshit” [by T. S. Eliot]
Did you know that T. S. Eliot wrote a poem entitled "The Triumph of Bullshit"? Neither did I until I started reading The Poems of T. S. Eliot, volume one (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the massive…
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Ballet de Lorraine Season 2022-23 #2: a tale of sentiment and feeling [by Tracy Danison]
Loîc Touzé’s "No Oco". Photo © Laurent Philippe There’s a lot of contrast – in chronology, in genre, in philosophy – in Ballet de Lorraine’s 2022-23 season. I expect that’s why it has opened with…
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Richie Hofmann: Pick of the Week [ed.Terence Winch]
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Sonnet, 11/5/2019 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Sonnet, 11/5/2019 (by Mitch Sisskind) In the old days working at Republic SteelWe gathered nightly at Moose Cholak’sCalumet Inn on 99th Street and Ewing.It was when polyester double-knit pantsWere coming in and one night this…
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From Marsh Hawk Press: The Chapter One Project for November
November 2022 The Chapter One Project for November: David Lehman: “The Birth of The Best” Every September a new edition of The Best American Poetry appears, quickening pulses, provoking arguments. From one year to the…
