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  • Lear is Real: “Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are. . .”

    August 24, 2022

    Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend youFrom seasons such as these? O, I have ta'enToo…

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  • “Snow Gold” by Emma Lew [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    August 24, 2022

        Here is Melbourne poet Emma Lew speaking to the Australian Book Review in 2019 about her approach to writing poems: "Writing a poem, for me, is an experience that blurs consciousness and…

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  • “Snow Gold” by Emma Lew [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    August 24, 2022

        Here is Melbourne poet Emma Lew speaking to the Australian Book Review in 2019 about her approach to writing poems: "Writing a poem, for me, is an experience that blurs consciousness and…

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  • “Embodiment Pantoum” [by Amit Majmudar]

    August 23, 2022

    Embodiment Pantoum When you’ve had the same lover long enough,You want the same lover in a different bodySo that renewal isn’t quite betrayalNor the second first kiss a Judas kiss. You want the same…

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  • “Embodiment Pantoum” [by Amit Majmudar]

    August 23, 2022

    Embodiment Pantoum When you’ve had the same lover long enough,You want the same lover in a different bodySo that renewal isn’t quite betrayalNor the second first kiss a Judas kiss. You want the same…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Three): Jane Zwart [by Angela Ball]

    August 23, 2022

    Poem with a Hole in It My great-aunt had a typewriter that knocked the bellyfrom every O she wrote. Every poem has a hole in it. A rifle’s sight, the peg of lens in…

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