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  • In the new “Southern Review”: Poems by Terence Winch

    October 7, 2022

    Fallen World  You never cry anymore. The trees don’t makeyou weep. The baseball season has almostgone missing, but you aren’t really concerned.You can’t go anywhere. There is a world of freelove, grocery stores, off-track…

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  • Ron Charles in the Washington Post on BAP 2022

    October 7, 2022

    <<<Want to read more contemporary poetry but don’t know where to begin? For expert curation and variety, you can’t do better than “The Best American Poetry 2022,” edited this year by Matthew Zapruder. These…

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  • from “Duke Rhino,” a work in progress [by Mitch Sisskind]

    October 7, 2022

        This was the first day of a new school year. I would be starting seventh grade. My mother and I were in the breakfast nook. The Chicago Tribune was on the table with…

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  • The Many Generations of the Versatile Ben Jonson

    October 7, 2022

    Ben Jonson, England's first poet laureate, wrote great poems conjoining wit and powerful feeling. Consider "My Picture Left in Scotland") about which I have written a short essay, which you will find here).  His…

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  • Breaking, ballrooming, tumbling, poésie: is dance sport? [by Tracy Danison]

    October 7, 2022

    Daily life is getting back to… dance… sport … art … life. Collectif de danse Move And Art. Photo © Sarah Meunier October already! Daily life has definitely been regaining substance. Neighbor photographer Sarah…

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  • Mary Gilliland, Guest Author

    October 7, 2022

    This month we welcome Mary Gilliland as our guest author. Mary is author of The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020). Her poems are widely published in print and online literary journals and most recently anthologized in Rumors…

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