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“Reasons for Living”: A new “Next Line, Please” poetry challenge
Our prompt this week was to write a poem based on an error, mistake, or slip of the tongue. Nearly as impressive as the poems that came in were the editing suggestions our…
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“Lining-Up (for Charles North)” [by David Lehman]
"Lining-Up (for Charles North)" [by David Lehman] This poem was inspired by a dream I had in which Amy Gerstler and I were on the same softball team, with her in lead-off position playing…
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Joan Kwon Glass: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Exit Plans My ex-mother-in-law hates my guts. I still have the cooking pot she gave us as a wedding gift. It has lasted longer than both of my marriages,…
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“Comedy of Remarriage” [by Erin O’Luanaigh ]
Comedy of Remarriage She sticks out her leg to trigger their fall.(Felix culpa!) He, heir to a mug of beer—no, ale—believes in the magical thinking of passive voice:that the apple, the cards, the woman…
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June Events 2025: Look to the richness to find the diversity [By Tracy Danison]
“Monga” by Jéssica Teixeira, June Events 2025. Photo © Ligia Jardim What can dance do? Jessica Teixeira’s Monga might make US Attorney General Pam Bondi shout “Off with his head!” and make a lunge…
