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  • On Robert Fitzgerald’s Odyssey [by Carolyn Clark]

    August 11, 2020

    The Odyssey has often been considered the lighter of the two Homeric epics, easier to read, more various and more entertaining than its counterpart, The Iliad.  The splendor of the narrative is indisputable, and great…

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  • Bascove’s Bridges on the Streets of New York City

    August 10, 2020

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  • Embodiment Pantoum [by Amit Majmudar]

    August 10, 2020

    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 lover in…

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  • E. Ethelbert Miller: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    August 9, 2020

    Photo by Max Hirshfeld _____________________________________________________________ The South Bronx We lived in the land of broomsticks stickball played between cars manholes for bases We ran past fire hydrants and caught balls near curbs Now and…

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  • For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: John Murillo

    August 8, 2020

    Variations on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop by John Murillo Start with loss.  Lose everything.  Then lose it all again. Lose a good woman on a bad day.  Find a better woman,then lose five friends…

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  • Danusha Lameris Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]

    August 8, 2020

    EXPLORATION OF THE GRAND “Dust” by Danusha Lameris https://poems.com/poem/dust/https://www.aprweb.org/poems/dust  The universe or the smaller universe of subatomic particles, the heights of philosophy or the depths of psychic disruption and despair, divinities or absences, science…

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