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  • Happy birthday, Dino (June 7)

    June 7, 2025

     

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  • “Comedy of Remarriage” [by Erin O’Luanaigh ]

    June 6, 2025

    Comedy of Remarriage She sticks out her leg to trigger their fall.(Felix culpa!) He, heir to a mug of beer—no, ale—believes in the magical thinking of passive voice:that the apple, the cards, the woman…

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  • June Events 2025: Look to the richness to find the diversity [By Tracy Danison]

    June 6, 2025

    “Monga” by Jéssica Teixeira, June Events 2025. Photo © Ligia Jardim What can dance do? Jessica Teixeira’s Monga might make US Attorney General Pam Bondi shout “Off with his head!” and make a lunge…

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  • Three Sonnets on Lines of John Ashbery [by Mitch Sisskind]

    June 5, 2025

    1.We've heard lots of names hereTonight but I'll tell you one nameWe have not heard which is theName of Slobodnik who wasThe janitor at the high schoolWhere I worked and one dayHe said swimming…

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  • On Tony Towle’s “Late Sketches & Studies” [by Martin Stannard]

    June 4, 2025

    “Late Sketches & Studies” by Tony Towle, pub. Kulvert Books, 48pp. £12.99. Let’s begin this with a quotation:           you come by to type          your poems and write a          new poem instead on my          old typewriter while I…

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  • The Broken Eyeglasses [end of part 1 of Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”]

    June 4, 2025

    <<<He turned the handle and opened the door and fumbled for the handle of the green baize door inside. He found it and pushed it open and went in. He saw the rector sitting…

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