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“Happy 58, Susan Wheeler!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
THREE BIRTHDAY LIMERICKS for SUSAN WHEELER (7/16) 1.There was a young lady named Wheeler,Whose stinger, antenna and feelerCould never be seen—except in a dreamOf that hexapod lady named Wheeler.2.There was a young person named…
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Writing the Same Poem, Over and Over [by Luke Hankins]
I find it very difficult to understand the thinking of poets who spend a lifetime writing and publishing the same kinds of poems, over and over and over. I don’t mean poets whose work…
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“Goethe’s Nightsong” [by David Lehman]
Goethe's Wandrers Nachtlied (1780), one of the master's most beautiful short lyrics, was discussed by Raymond Sokolov and avid readers during Ray's stint as our guest blogger (May 13-17, 2013). The poem appears in…
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“The Consonants” [by John Tranter]
B, brave brown, C, iciclePendant, D, dun though pale,F for faint mauve, fish and bicycle,G, gothic paint in a green pailH, an ambulance red and white,J, lemon rain, K, snakebite,L, bandage around M for…
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Three More Prose Poems by Joan Biddle
THE MAN O WAR Clear blue blown glass on the sand. She’s immune to it. She can sit on the rock in the water that buoys her. Let her love handles be lapped by…
