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More about Steve Orlen
These pictures of poet Steve Orlen, who died one week ago today, come to us from Jerry Williams and Max McConkey They were taken by Max. This first picture is of a memorial service. In…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by J. E. Wei
In the Field The bungalow is empty now. The clock swings in silence. (I see Grandpa taking me to the urine bucket on a mossy floor, where bamboo curtains moldered.) The bigger room of…
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Reader’s Choice: More Personals from the London Review of Books
Vote for your favorite! 1.<<<Allow me to buy you dinner! It's chicekn or fish and one of the conditions is that I get to harp on for three hours about my ex-fiance who dumped…
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Lawrence Joseph at the New School [by Stephanie Paterik]
In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote “don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law.” Few poets understand this sentiment as poet and longtime lawyer Lawrence Joseph does.…
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Brass Tacks [by Janice Erlbaum]
That's what we're getting down to, folks. Not tin tacks, not copper tacks; not a tie tack or the wrong tack to take. Shiny, pointy, brassy tacks with slightly convex heads, such as you…
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In Memory of Steve Orlen (1942-2010) by Jerry Williams
A few years ago, my friend, former teacher, and mentor, Steve Orlen, came to read his poetry at the school where I teach creative writing, and I had the great pleasure of introducing him…
