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“The Novel” by Eric McHenry

By On April 28, 2009

We’ve all heard about Juanita—poor, dear woman with her poor, dear woman act metastasizing like a metaphor into fact; that benefactor of Topeka Teens Making a Difference and the quiet third shifts… Read More

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“Under $6 a Bottle” by Dick Davis

By On April 27, 2009

Shun Chardonnay—the bottle might be pretty, But its bouquet’s distinctly eau-de-kitty Be wary of Bordeaux, which Brits call “claret”— Imagine a metallic tasting carrot Watch out for anything that fizzes—Asti Spumante is… Read More

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“Pop music” by A. E. Stallings

By On April 20, 2009

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“Mr. Bleaney” by Philip Larkin

By On April 18, 2009

This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies, till They moved him. Flowered curtains, thin and frayed, Fall to within five inches of the sill,… Read More

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“The Love Ditty of an ’eartsick Pirate”: Katy Evans-Bush Gives us a Pirate Rendition of “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” rhyme scheme intact!

By On April 17, 2009

It’s time we be goin’, me hearty, avast! When the night’s nailed up its colours to its mast Like some swab loaded to the gun’les ’n’ lashed to the plank; Arr, make… Read More

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“Subterranean Cities” by John Foy

By On April 17, 2009

They rented rooms in a low house by tracks in the industrial area, where freighters from Greece and Liberia lay together under cranes, and the stacks of so many chthonian factories blew… Read More

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“The Dowser’s Ear” by Wilmer Mills

By On April 15, 2009

Empty cattle trailers Rumbled dummy thunder Down the road all day, and now tonight, Heat lightning flashes more of the same fake rain. It’s just as well. I couldn’t get to sleep,… Read More

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“The Pig Roast” by Joshua Mehigan

By On April 13, 2009

The afternoon wound down. The pool was calm. Some children played around the emptied trough. The small low town was far enough away Behind the trees to look as though it were… Read More

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“Man and Wife” by Robert Lowell

By On April 3, 2009

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“Larkin” by Adam Kirsch

By On April 2, 2009

What the average sensual man cannot forgive Or triumph over, slowly he forgets; By thirty-five or so begins to live With the faint metal taste of choked regret Flavoring every swallow. For… Read More

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“Prof of Profs” by Geoffrey Brock

By On March 31, 2009

For Allison Hogge, in memory of Brian Wilkie I was a math major—fond of all things rational. It was the first day of my first poetry class. The prof, with the air… Read More

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“Instrumental” by Priscilla Becker

By On March 27, 2009

I began to notice wind, I lay on the floor. The words didn’t come, but the sounds. And there was a smell like crayons. online pharmacy buy glucophage online no prescription pharmacy… Read More

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“Paradoxes and Oxymorons” by John Ashbery, read by D.J. Spooky

By On March 26, 2009

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224-Word Palindrome Poem by Demetri Martin, Courtesy of Paste Magazine

By On March 21, 2009

I won’t make any claims that this is a good poem, even by its own lights. But I am fond of palindromes, so here we go. “Dammit I’m Mad” by Demetri Martin… Read More

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“Fourteen Final Lines” by J. Allyn Rosser

By On March 20, 2009

The favored sight is that which disappears. Wise angels only hum, and hide their wings. Some toxins will not drain except by tears. The monkey throws his feces as he swings. In… Read More

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“Tiger Face” by Stephen Dunn

By On March 19, 2009

Because you can be what you’re not for only so long, one day the tiger cub raised by goats wandered to the lake and saw himself. It was astounding to have a… Read More

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“OCD” by Erica Dawson

By On March 13, 2009

The learned men call it all a true Emergency, the summer’s long, Tireless drought. And I walk through The public park breaking the thong Of my flip flop, limping in strong Heat… Read More

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“Lullaby” by W.H. Auden

By On March 9, 2009

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“Rose Thorns” by Molly McQuade

By On March 9, 2009

Why do roses need their thorns? Some things are little known. But thorns of roses spring and seize the surface of  fey airs before the roses come. I’ve seen thorns huddle in… Read More

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“Dido, It Would Have Ended Anyway” by Deborah Warren

By On March 4, 2009

Dido, it would have ended anyway. Command the sun to linger at its crest in hot abeyance—order noon to stand stopped, as if there isn’t any west— maybe you can get it… Read More

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“April Arsenal” by Ernest Hilbert, in the new issue of Measure

By On March 2, 2009

I look up when I hear the sound of rain. At first, I think it is the sound of leaves Blown on the street, then remember it is spring. It washes fast… Read More

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“Difficult Body” by Mark Wunderlich

By On February 27, 2009

A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi— half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes already milky with dust and snow, rolled upward as if tired of… Read More

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“The Shorter Life” by Peter Didsbury

By On February 25, 2009

I loved the rain, but always suffered badly from post-pluvial tristesse online pharmacy aciphex no prescription . My best wet afternoon was in the mouth of a disused railway tunnel, behind me… Read More

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“Olives” by A.E. Stallings

By On February 23, 2009

Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet, For fruits that you can eat Only if pickled in a vat of tears— A rich and dark and indehiscent meat Clinging tightly to… Read More

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“Echo” by Rick Barot

By On February 20, 2009

And what part of his reflection will tell me who I am, that I am standing a little away, wanting in on his story? Days I am cup, slice, gray, need, therapy.… Read More

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“For Harry Crosby” by Garrick Davis

By On February 19, 2009

It is better to be too soon than too late. Driving through the shell craters of Verdun In an ambulance, your death-day came With a vaporized truck and you, unharmed And awake… Read More

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“Couple from Hell #11” by Craig Arnold

By On February 18, 2009

You walk out in the morning and the sky is broad and blue and across the pathway threads of silk glint in the sun     at the end of each a spider still… Read More

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“Kaleidoscope for Kaleidoscope” by Paul Siegell

By On February 15, 2009

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“Wild nights! Wild nights!” by Emily Dickinson

By On February 14, 2009

Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile the winds To a heart in port, Done with the compass, Done with the chart. Rowing in… Read More

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“The Triumph of Marsyas” by Rachel Wetzsteon

By On February 13, 2009

I stood, all puss and muscle, at the stake. And thinking that was that, you went and picked your pipes up, snickered, and proclaimed a week of merriment. Meanwhile a small dog… Read More