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Aaron Smith: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty I’ve pushed all my lovers into winter nights or fled them in 3 AM taxis, each city empty as…
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Shelley’ s “Ode to the West Wind” — Great Poems of the World, episode 18, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Ode to the West Wind By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819) I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an…
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The Dahlias [by Didi Jackson]
The Dahlias By now the fields are overgrown,most ironweed and parsnip have turned black,even the closed cabinet doors of milkweed podshave burst open, spilling their shucked silkinto the day. I wear a coatand remember…
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Live Performance Pilgrimage, with Walkabout: Normandy’s Spring International Festival of New Circus [By Tracy Danison]
Les filles du renard pâle, "Révolte". Photo © Kalimba Just when good ideas for whiling away the coming months seem so thin on the ground, a great one comes along. Spring, 16ème Festival international…
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David [poem by Marie Syrkin]
DavidMarie Syrkin Suppose, this time, Goliath should not fail;Suppose, this time, the sling should not availOn the Judean plain where once for allMankind the pebble struck, suppose the taleShould have a different end: the…
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John Taylor’s Brilliant Essay on the Prose Poem
Here is an excerpt. from "Two Cultures of the Prose Poem" by John Taylor Ponge's strategy for destroying concepts provides a telling parallel to T. S. Eliot's notion of "forcing . . . language…
