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  • NLP (by Mitch Sisskind)

    March 26, 2021

    When she started up on him he said 'Yo no soy un stupido.' He also said 'I'm not going to play monkey for y'all.' It worked. She calmed right down. This is how Neurolinguistic…

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  • From My Diary – February 2020 [by Lera Auerbach]

    March 26, 2021

    Suite del Ocells © Lera Auerbach (1) At first, the days were numbered. They were numbered before the surgery and then after. Going under is a bit like dying, but you know you will…

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  • An Interview with Mary Jo Salter [by Aspen Matis]

    March 25, 2021

    Mary Jo Salter is the author of eight poetry collections including A Kiss in Space, Open Shutters, Nothing by Design, and A Phone Call to the Future. Her most recent book of poems, The Surveyors,…

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  • Remembering Robert Hershon [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 24, 2021

        ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Like many others, I am deeply saddened over the death of my dear friend Bob Hershon on March 20, 2021. Bob was smart, funny, and generous. He was also a wonderful…

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  • RIP Adam Zagajewski: “Black birds pace the fields. . .”

    March 24, 2021

    Adam Zagajewski, who died Sunday, the first day of spring, age 75, was a wonderful poet and sweet gentleman.   This is from "Self-Portrait":   Black birds pace the fields, waiting patiently like Spanish…

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  • Grains of Paradise – for Adam Zagajewski [poem by Angela Ball]

    March 24, 2021

    Grains of Paradise                                      -for Adam Zagajewski The time of impossible friendships, cruel steps, the time of refrigerated semi-trucksand their willing assistance, the time of I-pad goodbyes, of casual stock, pastured, backsto the wind,…

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