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Category: Poems

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The Weekend Read: Sherman Alexie

  • Posted on January 15, 2011September 15, 2013
  • by Sina

THE EXAGGERATION OF DESPAIR   I open the door (this Indian girl writes that her brother tried to hang himself with a belt just two weeks after her other brother…

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  • Art & Artists

Two Poems and a Conversation With J.R. Carpenter

  • Posted on November 11, 2010November 7, 2017
  • by Sina

I’ve Died and Gone to Devon England is a small country, unless you’re driving across it. From the M3/A303 you’d think the whole country was countryside. The deeper into Devon…

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  • Poems

Kate Greenstreet on the tiniest feckles of rain

  • Posted on October 31, 2010August 15, 2012
  • by Sina

I have blogged about Greenstreet on several occasions which you can find here. Things get complicated with Greenstreet. Her poems lay flat, then suddenly do a 360, as if the…

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  • In Conversation

Melissa Bull: Two Poems, Six Questions

  • Posted on October 6, 2010August 15, 2012
  • by Sina

EDISTO In the truck my roast pink mother floats in a piggy nightgown from the Piggly-Wiggly. She’s drinking piña colada. I’ve got corn mash or some kind of corny nosto-industrialized…

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  • Poems

Prose Poem Winner (redux)

  • Posted on May 18, 2010August 15, 2012
  • by Sina

DEATHLESS NUCLEAR FAMILY OF THE SPANGLED MIND Michael Nardone Judge’s Statement: There’s something about punctuation – not points on a page but the way words cut and slip through other…

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  • Poems

A few words and poems: Mairead Byrne

  • Posted on May 1, 2010December 30, 2013
  • by Sina

SUMMER HOURS At sundown men in loose powder-blue overalls come in a white city truck and unfurl tarps stashed between the bars of the wrought-iron fence and nudge them up…

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  • In Conversation

Adam Sol: A conversation ending with a poem

  • Posted on April 7, 2009September 16, 2012
  • by Sina

LH: What was the inspiration for Jeremiah? AS: There were a few different inspirations. First, I wanted to experiment with a highly rhetorical, loud voice, as a response to a…

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  • Poems

Emily Dickinson epigram of the day

  • Posted on April 2, 2006February 14, 2019
  • by Sina

These brief imperfect meetingshave a tale to tell. Random epigrams here. Refresh for a new one.

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  • Literary Event

Jen Benka is way cool

  • Posted on January 11, 2006February 14, 2019
  • by Sina

As posted last week, I heard Jen Benka read at “Battle Hill”, the Brooklyn Reading Series located on Smith Street, at Bar Below–a bar in the basement of the restaurant…

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On the way from the subway

  • Posted on January 11, 2006February 14, 2019
  • by Sina

A mother and son with no front teethTwo slices of squished pizzaOne man without legsTwo babies in red capsOne man with seven facial piercingsThe tail of an animalToo many discarded…

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  • Poems

Poem by Zang Er

  • Posted on January 10, 2006February 14, 2019
  • by Sina

Nu Shu: The Secret Language of Women* Hey you guys, Shut up! From sight progress by Zang Er Translated from Chinese with Rachel Levitsky *NuShu literally translated as ‘female script’…

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