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Melissa Studdard: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher ________________________________________________________ A Little Bit Rain It seemed this bicycle was faster…
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The Sixties [by Bill Wadsworth]
The Sixties The cruelties of April and mornings in America still reverberate even now on the further side of the hill with our sixties behind us and the day…
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The Rienzi Hotel [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Rienzi Hotel Day is serious but night is play Of dark around the headlights; Police at the Rienzi Hotel anyway. Queen Moon in her royal array Don’t appear every single night; Day…
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Three Cheers: Poems by Cayanan, Lehman, Musakovska in “The Common,” April 2023
The CommonPoetry editor John HennessyApril Is Poetry Month: New Poems By Our Contributors MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN, DAVID LEHMAN, and YULIYA MUSAKOVSKA (translated by the author and OLENA JENNINGS) The RemedyBy David Lehman Although I do not havethe remedy for…
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In Honor of the Late John Tranter [by Thomas Moody]
John Tranter, one of the foremost figures in Australian poetry over the last half-century, died earlier this week aged 79. Perhaps no one has done more than Tranter, as poet, editor, anthologist, publisher, critic…
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Laurence Goldstein, Editor and Poet, 1/5/1943 – 4/16/2023, Ann Arbor
On April 16th we lost Larry Goldstein, longtime editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review (32 years!), an inspired anthologist, editor, poet, and professor at the University of Michigan. I have often said that the…
