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  • About Alice, me & every body: difference and disability [by Tracy Danison]

    January 5, 2022

    As a spectator, for me Mickaël Phelippeau’s "De Françoise à Alice" happens especially around ‘intimacy’: looking (both ways), feeling (both ways), touching (both ways), talking (both ways)… Photo©FRAL_Philippe Savoir We’ve all been getting booster…

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  • “Request to a New Year” by Judith Wright [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    January 5, 2022

    Judith Wright was one of Australia's foremost literary figures of the 20th Century, and one of only two Australian poets (alongside AD Hope) to be considered for a Nobel Prize in literature. Her passion…

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  • “Palliative” [by Joyce Carol Oates]

    January 4, 2022

    1. Hate hope!Arsenic for weekswe’d taken in micro-dropson credulous tongues. Hope the thingwith noisome wingsclatteringabout our headswith a broom at last swatted to earth. Stomped, smashed. Now, clarity of silence.Only the drip of minimal liquids—saline,…

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  • from “Oracle” [by Loren Goodman and Aspen Matis]

    January 3, 2022

      Loren Goodman and Aspen Matis have embarked on a collaboration in verse which they have titled "Oracle." It is a singularly fruitful encounter, often taking the form of a question-and-answer session. Sometimes, watching…

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  • Megan Falley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    January 2, 2022

                                  _________________________________________________________ Telling Him I Kissed a Woman   I cut the pill of truth with honey, promised, We were…

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  • A Footnote for David Lehman [by David Shapiro]

    January 2, 2022

    A Footnote for David Lehman a footnote is a link and a quotation is a photo and a poem can be easily deleted evenings Tell me, tell me, delete me instantly, isn't a reference…

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