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  • Solo Percussion [by Lewis Saul]

    June 20, 2023

    I was 11 or 12 and my quality time with my father was Sunday afternoons at the Pittsburgh Symphony with William Steinberg in the old Syria Mosque: I was already deep into classical music,…

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  • “Sweet William” [by Ern Malley]

    June 19, 2023

    Sweet William I have avoided your wide English eyes:But now I am whirled in their vortex.My blood becomes a Damaged ManMost like your Albion;And I must go with stone feetDown the staircase of fleshTo…

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  • “Sweet William” [by Ern Malley]

    June 19, 2023

    Sweet William I have avoided your wide English eyes:But now I am whirled in their vortex.My blood becomes a Damaged ManMost like your Albion;And I must go with stone feetDown the staircase of fleshTo…

    Continue reading…

  • Tony Hoagland: “My Father Tells Me A Story” [posted by Jill Allyn Rosser]

    June 18, 2023

    Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Tony Hoagland Today's offering is perhaps not the usual Hallmark take on Father's Day, okay.  Tony Hoagland as usual slashes right through convention with the straight razor…

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  • Tony Hoagland: “My Father Tells Me A Story” [posted by Jill Allyn Rosser]

    June 18, 2023

    Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Tony Hoagland Today's offering is perhaps not the usual Hallmark take on Father's Day, okay.  Tony Hoagland as usual slashes right through convention with the straight razor…

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  • Cliff Fyman: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 18, 2023

                              photo by David Haas ________________________________________________________________________ from TAXI NIGHT   I’m so dumb! Like, why the fuck am I drinking? So I woke…

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