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Sunday, June 29, 2014: 44th Annual Gay Pride Parade [by Stacey Harwood]
Thanks to the repair work that’s ongoing here, there’s a temporary platform and scaffolding outside of our windows on the second floor. I was able to climb out on Sunday to take a few…
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A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SILVER (1928-2014) by Ira Sadoff
A few weeks ago I was looking for something to listen to, searching out – as I often do — a mood, a tone. I picked out Horace Silver’s Re-entry, a compilation of live…
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Rudyard and Me by Peter Ferry
When we were children our mother used to put us to bed at night and entertain us on long car trips with poetry. We loved ballads, and she knew a bunch of them by…
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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 2 — Janis Freegard’s ‘A Life Blighted by Pythons’
A Life Blighted by Pythons waiting at the bus-stopall I can think aboutis how my hovercraft is full of eels but it’s not, of course it’s notmy hovercraft is practically emptymy eels are few…
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“On Experimental Poets” [by Jim Cummins]
They think they're wags, but they're really tails. The Wags of Fear: fantasizing they carry nitro, but it's really 'Nite-So' ('night soil,' a green product developed by the Self-Importance Movement). Scorpions–not sorcerers or 'Scorpios'–but…
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Peter Ferry Guest Author June 30-July 4
This week we welcome Peter Ferry as our guest author. Peter grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Chicago. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and an M.A. in English Literature from Northwestern…
