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  • The Greatest Poetry Hoax of the Twentieth Century [by DL]

    May 19, 2012

    THE greatest poetry hoax of the twentieth century was concocted by a couple of Australian soldiers at their desks in the offices of the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, land headquarters of the Australian army,…

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  • INNUENDI :: 4 :: [by Anthony Madrid]

    May 19, 2012

    1. The planet Jupiter. Really big, right? Lotta moons. They don’t even know how many. How big does a thing have to be to be a moon. I don’t know. Not that big. You ever seen the photos of…

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  • FRIDAY EDITION (b) :: INNUENDI :: 3 [by Anthony Madrid]

    May 18, 2012

    1. Did you know that Emily Dickinson once wrote a poem about being frightened out of a toilet by a spider? And that, in that same poem, she figures the spider as having stolen…

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  • The New School Announces the Winner of the Second Annual Paul Violi Prize

    May 18, 2012

      Justin Sherwood, Winner of the 2012 Paul Violi Prize Justin Sherwood has won the second annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry for a selection of original poems entitled “Abeyance.” Honorable mention goes to…

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  • Happy birthday, Robert Morse (alias Finch, alias Bert Cooper)

    May 18, 2012

     

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  • 59 BITS FROM TANYA LARKIN’S *MY SCARLET WAYS* [selected by Anthony Madrid]

    May 18, 2012

    (Larkin, Tanya. My Scarlet Ways. Saturnalia Books, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-9833686-3-2. $14.)  ❖   a proletariat anthem that sweetens wells cranks swings and lands kids on their feet.   ❖                      I will faint…

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