Saturday, January 31, 2009

WHITE PHOSPHORUS

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by Paul Stevens Blind windows glare unlight reflected from their murdered god, their palace tower looms, erect pale concrete with its dome o...
Friday, January 30, 2009

DIGGING UP GALILEO

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by Mary A. Turzillo Forensic physician Watson and historian Galluci want to dig up Galileo. They want to go to Florence, open his crypt in ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

BLAGO

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by Andrew Hilbert He sees himself like Gandhi or MLK, Jr He sees himself as a martyr for the people He's innocent he says he speaks He...

GAZA GUILT

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by David Radavich I confess: I didn’t really see the grief-stricken girl by the seashore. I didn’t know her suffering. I’ve only seen pictur...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

A TASTE OF HOME: HOMAGE TO JOHN UPDIKE

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by Earl J. Wilcox A famous fiction writer sits elbow to elbow by me behind a garish banquet table on an over-lit stage. He wrestles with let...

WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY

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by Gary Lehmann Until Andrew Wyeth was 15, his father gave him no artistic training at all. He sensed that his son could only learn from his...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

AMERICA!

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by Robert Riche America, you arrogant brutal simmering pot of financial crooks, screwed workers, homeless mothers, you pungent stew of tortu...
Monday, January 26, 2009

HINTS

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by Scot Siegel an erasure newspoem based on the story "Hints from the President" by David Cesarani, guardian.co.uk (Jan 24, 2009) ...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

MY BOOK BY GEORGE W. BUSH

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by Earl J. Wilcox I am elected. I leave Texas. I go to DC. I stay eight years. I go back to Texas. The End. Earl J. Wilcox writes about agi...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

ON ICE

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by Verandah Porche Light through the needle's eye: solstice Poem for a blunt wound: poultice Soft rime on branches, crystal lattice The ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

POETRY READING, INAUGURATION NIGHT, NEW YORK CITY

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by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz There was a guy in the open mike who said, I don’t have any poems about black presidents. I’m sorry. I know ...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

THE INTERIOR

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by Judith Terzi He's signed the papers; the house is theirs. Cartons line rooms. The lamps are finally lit. The girls are running down h...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

THE POEM IS MISSING IN GAZA

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley The poem is missing in Gaza although There have been fleeting glimpses and Unconfirmed sightings someone says She sa...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

20 JANUARY 2009

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by Matthew Quinn Let the devils burned by the brushing wings of history gather with the throng: Fastidious Booth and wild haired Calhoun, Na...