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  • Forget John Cusack: YOU could be the voice of POE

    May 15, 2012

    The Voice of Poe Contest   YOU could be a featured voice in the new Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (The Bronx, New York) bi-lingual audio tour!    Create a video of your best interpretation of Poe's Annabel…

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  • Frankie died today — in 1998 (by DL)

    May 15, 2012

    Sinatra, snapping out of  a haze,noticed me sitting across from him“Who the fuck are you?”Just another fan, I said, on the day he diedI made anagrams out of his namesatin, sin, stain, stair, train,…

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  • “Winnie the Pooh,” [by Ian Brown]

    May 15, 2012

    it was really a strange choiceyou made this morning to gowith just a t-shirt and no pants.There are not many of us whocan pull that kind of thing off.There are not many of us…

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  • INNUENDI :: 2 :: [by Anthony Madrid]

    May 14, 2012

    1. Take a look at these familiar lines from Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”:               A shudder in the loins engenders there             The broken wall, the burning roof and tower             And Agamemnon dead.                                                    …

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  • “My Parents Fled the Country” [by Asa Drake]

    May 14, 2012

    But only for two years. She was in jail for only two years. It was her childhood dream. They called her on 9 /11. It was in the Amazon But only for two years.…

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  • 58 BITS FROM ROBERT FERNANDEZ’S *WE ARE PHARAOH* [selected by Anthony Madrid]

    May 14, 2012

    (Fernandez, Robert. We Are Pharaoh. Canarium Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-9822376-5-6. $14.) ✷ the flesh calls back its bulls ✷ This is also the context in which childhood attempts to recur. ✷ Avoid the participle…

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