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  • Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Joanna Ruocco

    August 29, 2010

    When I Worked for Madonna The bodyguards wear white The bullets fly towards them The bodyguards are clouds The bullets do not penetrate Kaddafi. The bullets are precipitation After we drink coffee, we check the bird feeders. Kaddafi has purple martins…

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  • Postcard from Hampstead [by Dante Micheaux]

    August 29, 2010

    (home of John Keats)   Everything you have heard about the English is true. They are disingenuous and dull except when they are drunk, which is almost all the time, on the cheapest, warmest…

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  • 1 TV Haiku

    August 28, 2010

    MAD MEN II Peggy peeks into Don's office sees his despair No schadenfreude, kid

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  • Dante Micheaux, Guest Blogger August 29-September 4

    August 28, 2010

    Dante Micheaux is the author of Amorous Shepherd (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010). His poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bloom, Callaloo, Gathering Ground and Rattapallax—among other journals and anthologies. He…

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  • The Guessing Game (VI)

    August 28, 2010

    So you thinkyou know art. Who painted thispicture in 1927? It was paintedto illustrate or complement a work by another artistin a different medium,and if you can name ityou will have taken yourdaily step…

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  • 2 TV Haiku

    August 27, 2010

    MAD MEN Betty slaps Sally Children are playing outside Don drinks in the pain EMMY AWARDS THIS WEEKEND Jane Lynch will win prize Great glee splurge through cameras If Conan wins, too

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