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  • COVID woke: the thrill of the live performance moment located

    April 25, 2021

    Photo: Courtesy Atelier de Paris What you gonna do when you get out of jail?I'm gonna have some funAnd what do you consider fun?Fun, natural fun The Genius of Love, Tom Tom Club I…

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  • Mark Pawlak: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    April 25, 2021

    _________________________________________________________________________________ Do’s and Don’t’s Tony Bennett said it was Frank Sinatra who told him, "Steal from one person and it's plagiarism. Steal from everybody and it's research."   “Keep a strict eye on eulogistic…

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  • Starting a Zuihitsu on (Un)deliveries [by Lera Auerbach]

    April 23, 2021

    Photo Credit: Lera Auerbach (1) At times like this, I feel sorry for postal workers.It must be very stressful to be one.To always have to sort things out while thinking of viruses. One can…

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  • Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”: A Multiple Translation Project [by Alicia Ostriker and friends]

    April 23, 2021

    A POEM THAT MADE SOMETHING HAPPEN–NOW IN MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS   If you want to refute W.H. Auden's assertion that "poetry makes nothing happen," all you really need is one poem:  Emma Lazarus' sonnet "The…

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  • 10 Poems from DIALOGIST

    April 23, 2021

    I have been the poetry editor at DIALOGIST since 2016. Working with Michael Loruss, the founder and managing editor, over the past several years has been one of the great lights in my life…

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  • Big Daddy Lipscomb Three Sonnets (by Mitch Sisskind)

    April 23, 2021

    Big Daddy didn't play any college ball The Marine Corps was pretty much all The experience he had on defensive line Till he joined the Rams and then signed With the Colts in '56…

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