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“As we move slowly through the room…”
As we move slowly through the room I whisper to you as I often do in crowds a slow message like the alphabet in rote over your shoulder, my fingers touching between your shoulders my lips near your ear I tell you how you bring centuries of broken hearts with you like a cape of […]
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unbelievable what today has been
unbelievable what today has been and each night the big outside after next year five years will be plenty I think I did not think change changed much of course didn’t carried through the day till morning steal in and cover me Jesus I did not think let’s sing when we go down until the […]
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in foothills
the forgiveness in foothills cannot in November sunk in winter weather
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that abrupt here
that abrupt here of all empty in never enough unravished us we revise each other’s skin this hour this minute this suspiration spends us absently we in what’s already done
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Manifest Destiny
enough somehow what could get us all out to Ohio with any luck or Los Angeles God grant us a big balloon and some sandwiches for the trip uncontested these times appear an empty thing like as not to knock the bottom out of all my Sunday School teachings but I do not want to be like […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Collected Short Poems, Hayden Carruth Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick Publishers, by Robert Dana Economics, stories by Fanny Howe Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness, by Peter O’Leary Empire Falls, fiction by Richard Russo Suggested Listening Hi-Fly CD, Jaki Byard Now He Sings, Now He Sobs CD, Chick Corea […]
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06.09.02
The Cultural Society extends a hearty Mazel Tov to Esther O’Leary & her parents, Michael & Una. It looks to this editor as though last year was one for boys & this one is a year for the girls. Balance, dear readers, is the name of the game. L’Chaim.
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06.06.02
There’s going to be a bit of revamping here, mostly behind the scenes, so if you notice that our website lacks the galvanized uniformity you’ve come to recognize as our trademark, it’s just that I’m doing a little fine-tuning. Congratulations to Emma Gaddis for joining the rest of us on this planet. Pax Vobiscum. Thanks.
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05.23.02
First, I need to thank the contributors to our publications for their patience & understanding. We have, at last, & through no fault of the poets, Minisides Nos. 4 (corrected), 5, & 6 (for the unaware, that’s Les Murray, John Tipton, & Paul Muldoon respectively), & Pam Rehm’s chapbook will be going to the bindery […]