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Message from Essex
by Kimberly Wilder If you own a tree, you have inherited a fortune. There is no telling how many people old and young have stood under it and given it their secrets. It has been witness to all manner of history and fashion and weather. The tree is a universe of insects and birds who […]
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Jack Kerouac on TV (video)
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Grateful Dead – Box Of Rain (Live 9/24/88)
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Baseball Poetry Issue
Boog City 37 is the press’s latest baseball issue. I assembled 25 poets, the number of people on a baseball roster. Each poet was then assigned a different position on the team and asked to pick anyone who had ever played their position, be they in Major League Baseball, the Negro Leagues, the All-American Girls Professional […]
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out of time
she promises if I sit beside her a while and tell her my story I will never die just as she tells stories of the Arapaho whose name for her is lost the settlers who named her Boulder Creek she beckons me closer tell my story and she will share the […]
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Nursery Teacher Thoughts…
They probably remember me as a smell or a pattern. Perhaps I am a hand or one of the hands that rubbed their backs as they fell asleep on blue cots. I am fairly sure that puzzles and science lessons have disappeared from their memories. Very elaborate projects may have melted into a cheerful turn […]
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Alone
by Kimberly Wilder I like to be alone. When I am alone, I am more beautiful. I do not need to meet some expectation, be somebody’s image of butterfly woman or flower girl. In nature, everything has its charm, even crinkly iguanas and the opaque wings of insects. Alone, I judge myself by these standards. In […]
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THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
by George Wallace who pulls america’s strings like a wooden duck on wheels who drinks cocktails with kings while the people live in fear of them it’s the man behind the curtain, stupid ignore him, his love of power & his manipulation of prayer ignore him, his moral equivalent & his manufactured enemies his endless […]
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Pat Falk: Book Release Celebration & Party 10/15
The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Presents A Book Release Celebration and Reading Pat Falk, It Happens As We Speak: A Feminist Poetics OCTOBER 15, 1-4 Reading (Poetry and Prose) at 2:00 “a riveting mix of candor and musing” Molly Peacock “a moving read” Annie Finch “fascinating, quest-like” Patricia Monaghan “a book of birth, and life, […]
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Opportunities for Poets
from a Poetic listserv: OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS! yes, i know, this is the only reason you’re on this list. that’s OK! from George Wallace: call for poem submissions for the Long Islander newspaper’s “Walt’s Corner.” The newspaper is a general circulation weekly in the town of Huntington NY, founded by Walt Whitman and the oldest […]
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