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Richie Hofmann: Pick of the Week [ed.Terence Winch]
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Sonnet, 11/5/2019 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Sonnet, 11/5/2019 (by Mitch Sisskind) In the old days working at Republic SteelWe gathered nightly at Moose Cholak’sCalumet Inn on 99th Street and Ewing.It was when polyester double-knit pantsWere coming in and one night this…
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From Marsh Hawk Press: The Chapter One Project for November
November 2022 The Chapter One Project for November: David Lehman: “The Birth of The Best” Every September a new edition of The Best American Poetry appears, quickening pulses, provoking arguments. From one year to the…
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Lee Wiley, “Looking at You” (1939)
"Looking at you,I'm filled with the essence of,the quintessence of,joy. Looking at you, / I hear poets tellin' of lovely Helen of Troy." — Cole Porter, lyric writng at its most inspired The great…
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Serendipity (by Mitch Sisskind)
Gramps applies unguentine and a mixture of baking soda and super glue with desenexand cera-vu moisturizing lotion over lidocaine with benadryl vitamin e vitamin c zinc andwhat have you nothing works until by chance in a littleside…
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Edgar Allan Poe endorses Return to the Gold Standard [by David Lehman]
Ed Poe, long a proponent of the Bretton Woods monetary system, has come out in favor of a new gold-exchange standard. Congressman Poe (Republican, Texas) has introduced legislation that would return the nation to…
