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  • Interstellar Theme Park [poem by Jack Skelley]

    December 1, 2022

    Photo by Gary Leonard (Ed note: Ever since we posted the conversation between poets Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley we've been fielding requests for their poems. Here is Jack Skelley's Interstellar Theme Park, from…

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  • “Midston House” [by David Schubert, 1913-1946]

    November 30, 2022

          What is needed is a techniqueOf conversation, I think, as I put on theElectric light. But not the limitedVocabulary of our experience, theSurface irritations which pile up,Accumulate a city, – but the expression,Metamorphosed, of what they…

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  • Three Poems from the Ukraine [by Slava Konoval]

    November 30, 2022

    The Ukrainian poet Vyacheslav ("Slava") Konoval sent us these three poems for publication. A member of the Geer Poetry Group (Wales) and a member of the Federation of Scottish Writers, Slava lives in Kyiv…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: NOVEMBER 30, 2022

    November 30, 2022

    Edward Hirsch’s 100 Poems to Break Your Heart hurts so good, as John Mellencamp once sang. This anthology collects poems from Wordsworth (1815) to Meena Alexander (2018) in order to showcase grief in its…

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  • How Much? [poem by Jerome Sala]

    November 30, 2022

    Jerome Sala (Ed note: Ever since we posted the conversation between poets Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley we've been fielding requests for their poems. Here is How Much? by Jerome Sala, from his book…

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  • “Private Eye” [by Ron Horning]

    November 29, 2022

    Private Eye For some reason I think Ghirardelli Square is Aquatic Parkand walk to the end of Columbus one Sunday off. Pretty bad,so it must have been a lot different when Spicer came here—with…

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