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  • Two Prose Poems [by Nin Andrews]

    December 27, 2022

    "Yes" and "Never Say Yes" (by Nin Andrews) Yes Orgasms are bad news. In the town where I grew up, orgasms were against the law. No one had an orgasm, not even God. By…

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  • Hanukkah ca. 1960 [by Lewis Saul]

    December 27, 2022

    There I am stage right with older sister Wendy; and Lynn (z'l) and little bro, Alan. It looks like I got some kind of game — but it was Lynn who knew what I…

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  • Catullus, Sappho, and Jackie DeShannon [by Susan Brind Morrow]

    December 26, 2022

      Catullus (above left) is the best translator of Sappho (right), managing to create both a sense of the original and something that stands as an original poem on its own. Catullus was (according…

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  • “God has Pity on Kindergarten Children” [by Yehuda Amichai]

    December 26, 2022

    God has pity on kindergarten children.He has less pity on school childrenAnd on grownups he has no pity at all,he leaves them alone,and sometimes they must crawl on all foursin the burning sandto reach…

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  • Janet Hamill: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 25, 2022

    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When It Snowed   It was almost holy when it snowed waiting to see Santa at Sears for a photo in a plaid coat & mittens the real one was at Macy’s in…

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  • Merry Christmas! “Little Tree” [poem by e.e. cummings]

    December 25, 2022

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