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“Detour” [by John Tranter]
A, hot pink, babies angry when kissed,Gummy smile clenching to a scowl, E, snow blessing the street, a lisped vowel Hiding midnight’s infidelities, the wife pissed, Smile (angelic) changing to grimace (foul), Faint flutter…
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The Orchid [by Joan Biddle]
THE ORCHID New York was dusty in its caves of windows, its tallest towers. The girl ran across the park, always late. They had eaten at a place called Aureole, which is a nipple…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Didi Menendez, Editor of PoetsArtists and iARTistas and interactive iPad books (with a few questions for Denise Duhamel)..
Didi Menendez NA: You do so much: you’re a poet, an artist, a painter, an editor of books and online print journals and so much more. I’d like to begin by asking for a…
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Yvan Goll, Facing Death [by Luke Hankins]
Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was a poet, playwright, novelist, and translator born in Alsace-Lorraine who wrote in German, French, and English. He later lived in Paris and the U.S. and was an active part of…
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New Books by Contributors to Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets [by Luke Hankins]
A number of the poets included in my anthology Poems of Devotion (Wipf & Stock, 2012) have superb new books out. Here’s a list of the ones I know of and have read: Bruce Beasley: Theophobia…
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Notes from an Editor at an Old-Fashioned Literary Magazine; or A Brief History of Asheville Poetry Review; or What Not to Send to a Literary Magazine [by Luke Hankins]
Keith Flynn founded the literary magazine Asheville Poetry Review in 1994. What began as a regional publication quickly grew to a national one. Keith was the lead singer and lyricist of the band The…
