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Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Vin Des Amants” [translated by Sandra Simonds]
I Love Wine! Today, omg, I’m just so spaced out and splendid, as I walk this earth without death, without an apron, without being a wife and so my heart becomes the…
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Haiku Exchange 1/22/03 [David Lehman and David Shapiro]
DL to DSNY Unstuck Exchange (Hi, koo!) Three drops of blood ona hill of snow: signal forrebellion to start. Two snakes intertwinedaround a tree: signal forcouple to have sex. One touch of Venusand I…
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Happy 233 Birthday Bad Boy Byron
I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one,Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one;Of such as…
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Three Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Girls Began Speaking Pig Latin When the girls began speaking Pig Latin On the school bus I saw the pleasure Women discover in a secret language And more importantly I understood how Learning…
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An Interview with Major Jackson [by Aspen Matis]
January 19, 2021 AM: What do you see as poetry’s role in our present society? A unifying force? A destabilizing force of social and personal change? A reprieve from the mundanity and suffering of…
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“I Took a Creative Writing Class” [by Molly Arden]
Everybody wanted to sleep withOn one sideEach line had to And embrace For example a cupEqualsA pearl necklace means Where can I go whenWhy did you think I didn’t Toys If you left…
