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  • “Video Blues” [by Mary Jo Salter]

    August 15, 2023

    Video Blues My husband has a crush on Myrna Loy,and likes to rent her movies, for a treat.It makes some evenings harder to enjoy. The list of actresses who might employhim as their slave…

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  • “Shouldn’t the Sonnet?” [by Sandra Simonds]

    August 14, 2023

    Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I.                    Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form?  Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true?…

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  • “The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run” [by Joe Lehman]

    August 14, 2023

    above: the creators of Superman, Cleveland lads Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, with the product of their joint inagination. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run         After Eliot Ness finished his…

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  • Larry Rivers: Bad Boy of the Art World

    August 14, 2023

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  • Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Lawrence Raab

    August 14, 2023

    Last week’s posting of Kevin Prufer's “A Giant Bird” put me in mind of “Little Bird” by Lawrence Raab, which first appeared in New Ohio Review 4, Fall 2008.  “Little Bird” has a deceptively straightforward movement,…

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  • Melissa Broder: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    August 13, 2023

                              ________________________________________________________ Ahoy!   By the gates of the walled lung we stand circled in the dark.   We’ve come through his…

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