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Catullus #25 (trans. Molly Arden)
Thallus, you letch: softer than rabbit furis your phallus and sack of nutsthat dangle from your old man crotch, festooned with cobwebs, and still you’re as greedy as a gonif [line missing here] Give…
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Garrett Hongo makes Tuna Poke [by Stacey Lehman]
Every Friday for the past 40-odd years the Owl’s Head Lobster Co has set up shop in the parking lot of the Triphammer Mall here in Ithaca, NY. At 6:45 am the two friendly…
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Next Line, Please: Of Rivers, Lovers, Battles, and Repetitions [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week’s prompt brought us from a predetermined opening line (“It is impossible to love the same person twice”) to a predetermined closing line (“A thought is as real a thing as a cannonball”),…
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“Roof Nightclub” [by Ishion Hutchinson]
First, above all, I live forever. And thereafter redecorate paradisein the majesty of the roof nightbulb,DJ Lucifer, at predawn hoursterrifies the floorboards to give way toApollyon’s abyss, reflecting scarred lighton the wall. The…
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Reaching Out For the Sweet Maybe: Four Brief Reviews
From the Inside QuietlyEloisa AmezcuaShelterbelt Press, 2018 Eloisa Amezcua’s debut collection begins with a self-portrait poem in which the speaker, as a child, sinks to the bottom of a pool “legs akimbo,” “screaming words…
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Tom Clark, Reverdy, and Pere-Lachaise in the fog [by David Lehman]
The redoubtable Tom Clark continues to post for Vanitas, where last night appeared a poem with a hard-to-resist title, "One More Saturday Night (for Reverdy's Ghost)," and this ravishing photograph (by Lothar Streidle, 2004)…
