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  • Happy birthday to me! Max has arrived!

    June 11, 2025

    Bienvenue, Max!

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  • You’re too spectacular / to be in my vernacular 

    June 11, 2025

    You're too spectacular / to be in my vernacular   

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  • “June 11”: Poem 076 in “Poems 180” ed. by Billy Collins for the Library of Congress

    June 11, 2025

      June 11It's my birthday I've got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go for a cool swim on a hot day with the trombone in…

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  • “Reasons for Living”: A new “Next Line, Please” poetry challenge

    June 10, 2025

      Our prompt this week was to write a poem based on an error, mistake, or slip of the tongue. Nearly as impressive as the poems that came in were the editing suggestions our…

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  • “Lining-Up (for Charles North)” [by David Lehman]

    June 9, 2025

    "Lining-Up (for Charles North)" [by David Lehman] This poem was inspired by a dream I had in which Amy Gerstler and I were on the same softball team, with her in lead-off position playing…

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  • Joan Kwon Glass: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 8, 2025

          ________________________________________________ Exit Plans   My ex-mother-in-law hates my guts. I still have the cooking pot she gave us as a wedding gift. It has lasted longer than both of my marriages,…

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