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  • On the First of May: “While you love your lover let / blue skies be your cover-let” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]

    May 1, 2023

    You can find on Youtube many terrific cover versions of Rogers and Hart's "Mountain Greenery," a song that made its debut in the 1926 "Garrick Gaities." I love Lee Wiley's take though she omits…

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  • Green Mountains Review and 950 Other Journals To Submit Your Work to Now [by Nin Andrews]

    April 30, 2023

    Last week I received an email from Poets & Writers with the title 950 Literary Magazines to Submit Your Work to Now. "950?" I asked Maggie, my cynical poet-friend. "Who reads all those journals?"…

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  • Squibs 499-502 [by Alan Ziegler]

    April 30, 2023

    499: In 1967, Leonard Cohen asked Judy Collins, “Why haven’t you ever written any of your own songs?" which, she said, "felt like he gave me permission to write.” She went home and wrote…

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  • Melissa Studdard: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    April 30, 2023

                                      photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher ________________________________________________________ A Little Bit Rain   It seemed this bicycle was faster…

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  • The Sixties [by Bill Wadsworth]

    April 28, 2023

    The Sixties   The cruelties of April             and mornings in America still                         reverberate even now on the further side of the hill             with our sixties behind us                         and the day…

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  • The Rienzi Hotel [by Mitch Sisskind]

    April 28, 2023

    The Rienzi Hotel Day is serious but night is play Of dark around the headlights; Police at the Rienzi Hotel anyway.   Queen Moon in her royal array Don’t appear every single night; Day…

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