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  • Yeats & Paul Violi

    December 2, 2022

    << Last evening, when listening to Paul Violi's friends and colleagues and students and admirers read his poems, I thought of the last two lines of Yeats's "The Municipal Gallery Revisited,"  and recited them…

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  • Athena Sonnets (by Mitch Sisskind)

    December 2, 2022

                        'What are words that you hate, Athena,'And what are the words that you love?'Until now I had never called her AthenaBut here was born…

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  • Noir City Festival (Oakland, CA, January 2023)

    December 1, 2022

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  • Interstellar Theme Park [poem by Jack Skelley]

    December 1, 2022

    Photo by Gary Leonard (Ed note: Ever since we posted the conversation between poets Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley we've been fielding requests for their poems. Here is Jack Skelley's Interstellar Theme Park, from…

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  • “Midston House” [by David Schubert, 1913-1946]

    November 30, 2022

          What is needed is a techniqueOf conversation, I think, as I put on theElectric light. But not the limitedVocabulary of our experience, theSurface irritations which pile up,Accumulate a city, – but the expression,Metamorphosed, of what they…

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  • Three Poems from the Ukraine [by Slava Konoval]

    November 30, 2022

    The Ukrainian poet Vyacheslav ("Slava") Konoval sent us these three poems for publication. A member of the Geer Poetry Group (Wales) and a member of the Federation of Scottish Writers, Slava lives in Kyiv…

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