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  • Monday Comic by Nin Andrews

    July 15, 2013

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  • “The Consonants” [by John Tranter]

    July 14, 2013

    B, brave brown, C, iciclePendant, D, dun though pale,F for faint mauve, fish and bicycle,G, gothic paint in a green pailH, an ambulance red and white,J, lemon rain, K, snakebite,L, bandage around M for…

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  • Three More Prose Poems by Joan Biddle

    July 13, 2013

    THE MAN O WAR  Clear blue blown glass on the sand. She’s immune to it. She can sit on the rock in the water that buoys her. Let her love handles be lapped by…

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  • “Happy Birthday, Peter Richards!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]

    July 13, 2013

    PETER RICHARDS (7/13)Mars! Mars! Mars!& we’re bouncin’ off the walls!& Peter Rich’ll teach ya which,You beach- & basketballs! You beach- & basketballs!—Ya slam ’em in the net.—HELL sinky, kinda kinkyKey to oubliette. Umma-gumma yes…

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  • “The Last Fisherman” by Hyam Plutzik (born today, 102 years ago)

    July 13, 2013

    He will set his camp beside a cold lake And when the great fish leap to his lure, shout high To three crows battling a northern wind. Now when the barren twilight closes its…

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  • The Little-Known Film That Changed History (by Lawrence J. Epstein)

    July 12, 2013

    Pimpernel Smith is the most morally influential film ever made. The 1941 adventure film focused on the main character’s rescue of innocent people from the Nazis. The film was made by Leslie Howard using…

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