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“Epitaphs” by Ernest Hilbert

By On September 2, 2010

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“His Shield” by Marianne Moore

By On September 2, 2010

Marianne Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound beginning with her first publication in 1915. From… Read More

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“Poem (The day gets slowly started)” by James Schuyler

By On August 31, 2010

Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York,… Read More

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“She Discovers an Unsent E-Mail to an Ex-Boyfriend” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 30, 2010

1. She Discovers an Unsent E-Mail to an Ex-Boyfriend by Ernest Hilbert      online pharmacy buy estrace no insurance with best prices today in the USA I’m sorry I left you that day… Read More

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“Untitled Poem [Unslide the door]” by Joshua Beckman

By On August 30, 2010

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned his BA from Hampshire College, where he studied poetry and the art of the book. He is the author of five books… Read More

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“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young

By On August 27, 2010

C. Dale Young was born in 1969 and grew up in south Florida. He is the author of three collections of poetry: The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern University Press 2001),… Read More

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“Reality TV” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 26, 2010

1. Reality TV by Ernest Hilbert      Gossip often centers on TV shows Viewers have in common. This is not strange. What else can be so equal and shared? Discussions of real estate,… Read More

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“Under the Shadow” by Joanie Mackowski

By On August 23, 2010

Joanie Mackowski is a poet, teacher, and sometime juggler. Her second book of poems, View from a Temporary Window, will be released by the Pitt Poetry Series in January 2010. Her first… Read More

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“Guide to the Modern Man (Beach Issue!)” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 22, 2010

Despite valiant headlines to such effect, What the hell could GQ, Stuff, or Esquire Know of big topics like “The Modern Man”? Do they know, really, that he needs respect, Real-life models… Read More

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“To My Friends” by Joseph Harrison

By On August 19, 2010

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His first book of poems, Someone Else's Name, was published by… Read More

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“The Otherwise Sedentary Novelist Finds his Fantasy Turns Out All Wrong” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 16, 2010

Her ass was just as hard as Formica. Her knuckles in his side were like rock drills. This wasn’t turning out to be much fun. Still, he’d come so far. There’s nothing… Read More

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“Memories of West Street and Lepke” by Robert Lowell

By On August 14, 2010

Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston’s “hardly passionate Marlborough Street,” where even the man scavenging filth in the… Read More

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“Terminal” by John Foy

By On August 12, 2010

John Foy's first book of poems is Techne's Clearinghouse (Zoo Press).… Read More

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“Mirage” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 11, 2010

Calculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert’s first book, Sixty Sonnets, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair,… Read More

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“On the Longing of Early Explorers” by Elizabeth Bradfield

By On August 10, 2010

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“My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet” by Miller Williams

By On August 9, 2010

Miller Williams (born April 8, 1930) is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty-five books and won several awards for his poetry. His… Read More

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“White Castle” by Matthew Zapruder

By On August 8, 2010

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, The Pajamaist, and Come On All You Ghosts, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He has received a William Carlos… Read More

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“Advertisement for the Mountain” by Christina Davis

By On August 7, 2010

Christina Davis is the author of Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006) and Raven's Brew (Firefly, 2008). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, The May Anthologies… Read More

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“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” by James Hall

By On August 7, 2010

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Two Epigrams by Martial, translated by William Matthews

By On August 7, 2010

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known… Read More

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“Suicide of a Moderate Dictator” by Elizabeth Bishop

By On August 5, 2010

Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was independently wealthy, and from 1935 to 1937 she spent time traveling to France, Spain, North Africa, Ireland, and Italy and then… Read More

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“The Kraken” by Lord Alfred Tennyson

By On August 3, 2010

Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell… Read More

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“Song” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 1, 2010

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“Love Poem” by Ernest Hilbert

By On July 30, 2010

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“Sea Poppies” by H.D.

By On July 29, 2010

Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1886. She attended Bryn Mawr, as a classmate of Marianne Moore, and later the University of Pennsylvania where she befriended Ezra Pound… Read More

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“Variations Of An Air” by G. K. Chesterton

By On July 29, 2010

A wonderful series of parodies by Mr. Chesterton, on “Old King Cole.” Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe… Read More

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“Symmetries” by Ernest Hilbert

By On July 28, 2010

Love, when mingled with doubt, runs much quicker, And despair rivals delight at each turn. The sudden bled juices of early May Add thrills to life. Such persuasive liquor, When dried on… Read More

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“Paper Toys of the World” by Matthew Zapruder

By On July 26, 2010

Matthew Zapruder (born 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award… Read More

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“Thrash” by Daisy Fried

By On July 23, 2010

Daisy Fried is the author of two books of poetry, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press in 2006) and She Didn’t Mean to Do It (Pittsburgh, 2000),… Read More

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Dream Song 112 by John Berryman

By On July 22, 2010

My framework is broken, I am coming to an end, God send it soon. When I had most to say my tongue clung to the roof I mean of my mouth. It… Read More