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Poem Beginning with a Line after Yehuda Amichai [by Didi Jackson]
Past the window in the room where we make lovewaves follow one another like lines of laundryas the cliffs unfold, spilling like bolts of cloth into the bay,and it is the anise, they say,…
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Archie Ammons and friends at the launch reading of BAP 1994
from left to right, A. R. Ammons, James McManus, James Cummins, A. E. Stallings, Angela Shaw. The reading was sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, William Wadsworth executive director. The Academy sponsored the…
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Happy Birthday, John Ashbery (with a collage and a poem from the maestro, 1927-2017)
Wet Casements When Edward Raban, coming along the passage, walked into the open doorway, he saw that it was raining. It was not raining much. …
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“In Progress” [by Tony Towle]
We adjust the backgroundso that I am still in a forest,but the traditional kind,not one made of cement and glass,but composed primarily of woodand auxiliary vegetal matter,aerated with avian sonorities,and partially veiled by “air…
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Sonnet 7/26/2020 (by Mitch Sisskind)
When you really need a wimpyYou get one. It was our mantraThose many nights awaiting Delivery of the Racing FormTo the newsstand on Diversey Even as we called a longshotLike Greystone Park a whale Or how…
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“Thinking” at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria (Summer 2006)
Two poems at Civitella Ranieri, July 2006 Thinking You see a man / trying to think. — Adrienne Rich Here an orange and black-spotted butterflytests the lavender. There a bee sipsthe yellow and…
