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Emily Dickinson [by Mitch Sisskind]
Put aside the twaddle about her Foisted upon us in ten thousand Books and other tedious varieties. Nights in green eyeshadow she Panther-like prowled Amherst's Back alleys her brain abuzz with Webster's definition of…
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UKRAINIAN POETRY AND SCREEN SAVOR: Greetings from Amherst [by John Hennessy]
(From A New Orthography, by Serhiy Zhadan) We’ve Been Talking About War for Three Years (part one) + A friend of mine volunteered. He came back six months later. Who knows where he was. He…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Five): Nin Andrews [by Angela Ball]
Sometimes I feel so inspiredafter Ulalume González de LeónI think I am flying. Yes, flying far away. So far away, in fact, that between you and me, I am at a loss for words.…
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THE HOST’S GARDEN: An Invocation [by John Hennessy]
12 / 11/ 17, by David Lehman Mahler’s Third You can tell that the guywho wrote “I’ll Be Seeing You”(in all the old familiar places)was listening to the langsam last movementof Mahler’s third symphonyat the…
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John Hennessy, Guest Author June 14-19
This week we welcome John Hennessy as our guest author. John is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point Books )and Coney Island Pilgrim (Ashland Poetry Press) He is the co-translator,…
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Mary Jo Salter: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________ Erasers As punishment, my father said, the nuns would send him and the others out to the schoolyard…
