Tag: poetry
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The Man Who Would Have Died Had He Lived
Two poems by David Bergman For example, my mother told me in whispers / that if my grandfather (alav ha-shalom), / had known I was homosexual, / he’d have dropped dead on the spot.
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Canticle of Temper
Poetry by J.R. Tappenden sometimes/legends are wrong. sometimes/the unyielding ground fights fiercest.
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Three Fields of Play
Poetry by Claire Eder How motion / had to cut into a surface, laced to danger, / and that was called elegance.
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“Her” is Herself
Two poems by Jennifer L. Knox I found the truth creeping through / a tower of flowered hat boxes after she’d / passed out.
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An Interview with Lia Purpura
By Sophie Weiner +++I found Lia Purpura’s book by chance. Or, it presented itself to me, or it stood out somehow from the other hundreds of poetry collections housed at the very large university library in Lexington. The title stamped across the white spine, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful.
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Gadzooks! (being an apostrophe to my hands)
Poetry by Jay Hopler What is there in all this clutter / That loves you?