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  • Mary Jo Salter Presents “The Death of Argos,” a Sonnet Sequence by Nicholas Pierce (Day 1)

    February 21, 2022

    For the next two weeks, Monday through Friday, we will be publishing daily, piece by piece, the sonnet sequence “The Death of Argos” by Nicholas Pierce (Photo), presented below by Mary Jo Salter. What…

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  • Stepping through that door: “An Immigrant’s Story” by Wanjiru Kamuyu [by Tracy Danison]

    February 21, 2022

    Nelly Celerine signifying doubly in "An Immigrant's Story" by Wanjiru Kamyuyu. Photo©Anne Volery/ Palais de la Porte Dorée I’ve never mentioned the very kind and excellent teachers I have had – especially including the…

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  • My Back Story [by Molly Arden]

    February 20, 2022

     Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New England states plus Florida and Arizona. At 19 she was…

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  • Michael Palmer: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    February 20, 2022

                                          Michael Palmer. Photo by Juno Gemes  __________________________________________________ Falling Down in America   Every three seconds…

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  • “Jew You” in 2002 and today [by David Lehman]

    February 19, 2022

    Back in 2002, I wrote "Jew You." It appears in my book When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), and though it is not my favorite of the poems I wrote that spring, it…

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  • “Myth(ologies) in the Making in Chicago” [by Stacey Harwood]

    February 19, 2022

                                                      Photograph by Jennifer B. Hudson: http://www.jenniferhudsonfineart.com From the Archives (November…

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