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  • Yeats on Happiness; Late Autumn; and a Bear [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    November 5, 2010

      Dear Bleaders, There are lots of songs and poems that talk about how melancholia can crash suddenly the world on top of your head and crush you to bed, but only a few…

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  • “Geranium” [by Claudia Burbank]

    November 5, 2010

    Thank you for the dead geranium, redmemory of a short-stemmed city.For nickel shows, tea rooms, the rotten-eggmill-smell that crept between the fretted sheets.For elms that divided our limbs with dusk,and twisted things in ash…

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  • Ben and Amy Read Chapbooks

    November 1, 2010

    Here are some chapbooks we like.   Maybe this will make you read them.  The End of Waste and The Harrowing Halychyna by Curtis Jensen Self-published.  See curtisinterruptus.blogspot.com.   Poems: Welcome to the greatest “zine”…

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  • This Saturday Night in Boston: A Fine Romance at the Paramount Theater

    November 1, 2010

     If you're in Boston, Mass on Saturday, November 6, 2010, you can join David Lehman fresh from sold-out performances in New York and London, as he leads a musical tour through the lives of…

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  • Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Douglass Guy

    November 1, 2010

    Coracobrachialis A deep muscle of the armpit, its action is adduction–put the arm against the body. It can permit love letters to be folded near the chest and stuffed into envelopes, but it cannot raise…

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  • Monday @ KGB: Craig Morgan Teicher & Geoffrey Nutter

    October 31, 2010

    Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems and Cradle Book: Stories & Fables. He is a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle,…

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