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  • Every Day Something Different Disappears [by Mitch Sisskind]

    February 25, 2022

    Notice fence made of plumbing pipes around the grass. This has also disappeared. furniture mart disappears harris school disappears pittsfield building disappears prudential building disappears buckingham fountain disappears temple sholom disappears 152 bus disappears 151…

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  • Two Poems by S. K. Kelen [introduced by Thomas Moody]

    February 23, 2022

    Last week, the UK’s Channel 5 television network announced that they were dropping the long-running Australian soap-opera Neighbours, putting the show’s future production in jeopardy. The program has been on the air for thirty-six…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty-Four): Collin Callahan [by Angela Ball]

    February 22, 2022

    Deerfield Crossing Sheet lightning pulses like blood vessels in the sky above the post office. It is Sunday empty. I caress the edgesof failed delivery in my pocket and continue on the acid-rain pocked…

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  • Mary Jo Salter Presents “The Death of Argos,” a Sonnet Sequence by Nicholas Pierce (Day 1)

    February 21, 2022

    For the next two weeks, Monday through Friday, we will be publishing daily, piece by piece, the sonnet sequence “The Death of Argos” by Nicholas Pierce (Photo), presented below by Mary Jo Salter. What…

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  • Stepping through that door: “An Immigrant’s Story” by Wanjiru Kamuyu [by Tracy Danison]

    February 21, 2022

    Nelly Celerine signifying doubly in "An Immigrant's Story" by Wanjiru Kamyuyu. Photo©Anne Volery/ Palais de la Porte Dorée I’ve never mentioned the very kind and excellent teachers I have had – especially including the…

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  • My Back Story [by Molly Arden]

    February 20, 2022

     Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New England states plus Florida and Arizona. At 19 she was…

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