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  • “A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme” [by Stanley Moss]

    December 10, 2021

    Ben Jonson indicated,never quite stated,God prefers to be praisedin various meters, prose or free verse,not in rhyme. I was raisedon rhyme and worse,taught by examplenot to praise God at all.I offer, Jonson was wrong,what…

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  • Imagine “Guérillères”: gender and the warring spirit [by Tracy Danison]

    December 10, 2021

    “Guérillères” worked on me like a charm; as I watch it all makes perfect sense; especially, I have space to see the nonsense in it – Photo©MarcCoudrais Sex. Gender. A couple years ago, my…

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  • Imagine “Guérillères”: gender and the warring spirit [by Tracy Danison]

    December 10, 2021

    “Guérillères” worked on me like a charm; as I watch it all makes perfect sense; especially, I have space to see the nonsense in it – Photo©MarcCoudrais Sex. Gender. A couple years ago, my…

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  • No Boundaries [by Lera Auerbach]

    December 10, 2021

    Sometimes I wish to press the knife against my skin and let out blood because the world is growing within me, overflowing; it overwhelms me – for how is it possible that the world…

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  • No Boundaries [by Lera Auerbach]

    December 10, 2021

    Sometimes I wish to press the knife against my skin and let out blood because the world is growing within me, overflowing; it overwhelms me – for how is it possible that the world…

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  • “Have It, Eat It” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary from Mary Jo Salter]

    December 10, 2021

    Can we have our cake and eat it too? The best poets are able to take such common expressions, even clichés, and make us marvel at a fresh, new application.  Stephen Kampa does this…

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