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THE HOST’S GARDEN: An Invocation [by John Hennessy]
12 / 11/ 17, by David Lehman Mahler’s Third You can tell that the guywho wrote “I’ll Be Seeing You”(in all the old familiar places)was listening to the langsam last movementof Mahler’s third symphonyat the…
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John Hennessy, Guest Author June 14-19
This week we welcome John Hennessy as our guest author. John is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point Books )and Coney Island Pilgrim (Ashland Poetry Press) He is the co-translator,…
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Mary Jo Salter: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________ Erasers As punishment, my father said, the nuns would send him and the others out to the schoolyard…
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Seoul Food and Fists circa 2009 {by Loren Goodman}
Dr. Park calls and invites me out for lunch, suggesting bi bim bap. Dr. Park, aka "The Spin Doctor" (to be explained), is a research biologist at Seoul National University Hospital and my neighbor…
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Neighbor Smolarek (by Mitch Sisskind)
Each morning, the squirrels, how unregulated They jump and play. I call the police department To keep them away and also with the birds It is exactly the same. What kinds of birds? I…
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Our Birthday (June 11)
Dear Beth, Leo, Pauline, Allan,Joshua, LaWanda, Deborah, Sabrina, and Jordan:Born today, like us, were the poetsBen Jonson and Barnabe Googe.Also Vanzetti (of Sacco and Vanzetti)and Loeb (of Leopold and Loeb)and Green Bay’s coach Vince…
