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“One Hundred and Fiftieth Shiloh” by M. A. Schaffner
05 February 2016 on PoetryFestival ended, driving home we think the eggs were farby reproductions but apples showed a realistic size. Non-smoking rooms available. Been there, done that, got the steamboat ticket: West Tennessee...
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“Among Green Islands” by Nate Pritts
04 December 2015 on PoetryI wake to an unnaturally loud noise insects in summer a sharpened trill intense in the damp air which is otherwise flooded with the scent of grass & nostalgic light....
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“Sketch in Northwest Arkansas” by Nathan Parker
13 November 2015 on Poetrya stretch of fruit-strewn shade its vinegary yawn and meandering bones quick to make the blond with the apple between her mattresses say this is not a good place to...
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“Portal” by Nathan Parker
13 November 2015 on PoetryI've grown tired, walking stupidly around the house Saturdays, picking up shoes and receipts, rooting through the freezer for a cookie or a portal, sitting on a cold piano bench...
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“The New Geography” by Michael Pontacoloni
30 October 2015 on PoetryLike saran wrap taut around the rim of a crater on the moon, I am not good for much but keeping in and keeping out. Though, quiet as a map,...
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Fragments by Gregory Lawless
09 October 2015 on PoetryEtc. Fragment Their marriage was ending he waved his hands and gave examples Divorce Fragment “Everything she said,” he said, “was in italics.” Divorce Fragment...
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“This Thing Of Ours” by Julia Shipley
25 September 2015 on PoetryShark teeth, petrified wood, lump of crystalline. And so? Teeth of shark “killed off coast of Labrador.” Oh. Petrified wood from “the petrified forest where huge trees… lie just as they...
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A Conversation With Jean Valentine
25 April 2015 on PoetryI first was introduced to Jean Valentine’s poetry around the moment when I began to take my writing seriously, and it is perhaps no coincidence that these two events occurred...
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“The Man Talks About His New Telescope” by Charles Rafferty
10 April 2015 on PoetryIt was a gift from my daughter. Twenty years ago I would have used it to size up a job, to see who had the best TVs, the most...
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“Lightning in the Desert” by Adam Deutsch
20 March 2015 on PoetryIt could be the papers that knock just before a fire goes out under dinner. Served. Then the silent flashes are closer than we think. Count your Mississippis. Make...
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“What the Tao Has to Say About Flamingos” by Matthew Broaddus
06 March 2015 on PoetryThe room is not pink, but the flamingos are, and the longer I balance here, the deeper the tropics flock to the walls. Plumage clouds the windows. Even the...
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“I Step Into the Refrigerator and Curl” by Connor Willett
06 February 2015 on PoetryEverything is dead, never alive, or preserved. Florescence purer than dirt. I am a white man, in a white refrigerator, in a mountain state. What does that even mean? Sartre...
