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Hot off the Presses: The Spring 2015 issue of DMQ Review
<<< To laugh properly you must sound slightly surprised. So that’s what this child works on tonight as she practices laughing, trying to sound natural. — from "Childhood" by Amy Gerstler in the Spring…
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The Definition of Gardening [poem by James Tate]
Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put onhis little overalls and his straw hat. He says, "Let's go get those tools, Jim." But then doubt begins to…
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Tales of the Eighties: How I Found Lasting Love Because Art Forgot to Leave His Keys in the Car on Martha’s Vineyard [by Alan Ziegler]
Because Art forgets to leave his keys in the car, Gay can’t drive me to the airport on Martha’s Vineyard. Because Gay can’t drive me, we walk to the airport, a long shot…
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Marc Kelly Smith — More of the same
Continuing on from yesterday’s entry here are more of the principles that have fueled Slam’s worldwide success from Stage the Slam published by Sourcebooks: The death toll of most poetry readings doesn’t ring, it…
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Everything Must Go: Selling the Past, with Regrets (Terence Winch)
I found the poem below recently in a pile of papers from around 2008. I had no memory of having written it, but I’m sure many writers have the same kind of experience.…
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Marc Kelly Smith — Roots Philosophies of Slam
Prior to the poetry slam movement (and even today in many literary circles) poetry readings were, for the most part, poets reading to other poets. If there happened to be a genuine audience of…
