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Letter from Berlin #1 – On the viewless wings of Poesy [by Kathleen Heil]
Haus für Poesie, Berlin Oct 2017 Berlin is not a beautiful European city in the way of Paris or Edinburgh, but what it lacks in the picturesque it makes up for in possibility; not…
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“If You Call That Love” [poem by Patricia Carlin]
Far out at sea, I looked toward the elusive coast.Would it appear before evening?Would I love the swamps, ragged palm trees, crabsclattering their pincersover the black volcanic beach? If you call that love. I do, because,…
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Friday Night Cocktails with Jack Benny, John Ashbery and Friends [by David Lehman]
Friday at six, martinis straight up with olives. Plymouth or Hendricks. Tanqueray for JA; Bombay for Jim Tate ("lower proof so I can drink more of them"). A couple of eye drop's worth of…
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Poet Spotlight: Deborah Miranda [by Kristina Marie Darling]
In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words about…
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Poet Spotlight: Sammie Bordeaux-Seeger [by Kristina Marie Darling]
In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words…
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“Nothing Is as Boring as an Atheist” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Trapped on a long drive with an atheistI closed my eyes and sought refuge in My earliest erotic fantasies of capture By an Apache warrior maiden, cruelAt first but then merely unpredictable.As the atheist droned on…
