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  • Fragments 42-49 [by Alan Ziegler]

    March 21, 2017

    “Alan Ziegler, Author of Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” A lone white horse wags its tail on the outskirts of Chamoux… Sealed condom in the pocket of jacket inherited from my father. After…

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  • The Best Small Space Style: An American in Paris [by Stacey Lehman]

    March 21, 2017

    When you live in a tiny apartment, as I did when I first moved to NYC, it seems that much of your thinking is devoted to how to make the best use of the…

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  • Welcome, Spring (as imagined in August) [by David Lehman]

    March 21, 2017

    "It Might As Well Be Spring": Hammerstein's best lyric. Note the similes. The perfect song for Dick Haymes. Rodgers explained the music by saying that  it depended on the movement of a puppet on…

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  • Zero at the Bone: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance

    March 20, 2017

    Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance Edited by Michael Boughn, John Bradley, Brenda Cardenas, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson,  Kass Fleisher, Roberto Harrison, Kent Johnson, Andrew Levy, Nathaniel Mackey, Ruben Medina, Philip Metres,…

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  • Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration: Maria Melendez Kelson

    March 19, 2017

    illustration by Danielle Chenette El Villain by Maria Melendez Kelson "I fled the West Coast to escape them, but I still see illegalsEverywhere,” whines a letter-writer in our rural Utah paper,Applauding a local ICE…

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  • Tim Dlugos [by Terence Winch]

    March 18, 2017

    The last time I saw Tim Dlugos was 30 December 1989. We met for dinner at Kramer Books & Afterwords, the first bookstore/café in the land (as far as I know). It’s one of…

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