Paranoia and Prudery are compatible coordinates in the exact plane of deliverance
“It will deny and deny, as if/ Paranoia comes with plumed fluorescent feathers./ As if prudery is self-acknowledging.” Weekend poem, by Divya Rajan.
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Morning and Afternoon,
“night pushes at// the stars, at what/ we hope survives…” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Tom Montag.
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On missing the family
“This is how he remembers his family,/ this is how he misses them. Meanwhile,/ just outside the dingy rented room they/ still go on fighting…” Weekend poem, by Souradeep Roy.
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Bengali Chain
“I see us as we were, a couple, standing in a wound…/Thin strips of heat peel off the gutted pavement…” Poem of the Week (August 21), by Thomas C. Dunn.
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Bluestocking at twilight
“She’d watch her victims—only in a mirror—/ Their eyes held loose verbs from books she’d once read/ and read just once.” Weekend poem, by Mark J. Mitchell.
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Feynman’s Vaudevillian Dream of the Hardy-Ramanujan Number
“The starfish. I saw it on an English beach one frigid morning. Its five arms splitting me like five infinities…” Poem of the Week (August 11), by Arjun Rajendran.
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Berlin
“It is a long way. The way has been long./ You stumble at the gates/ whose flags and guards breathe out the West…” Poem of the Week (July 28), by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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Stockholm
“I think, then, about the kidnapped girl,/ leaving the basement for the ï¬rst time in her life,/ if she still loved him…” Weekend poem, by Sarah Fletcher.
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Alone in the crowd: The novels of John Dos Passos
“One hundred years and another world war later, this vision of what it means to look for meaning in a modern city remains strikingly parallel…” Jess McHugh revisits the novels of John Dos Passos.
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After Much Ice and Snow Televised from Vancouver I Wonder If Tu Fu Is Dry & Safe In His “Night in the House by the Riverâ€
“In this world what we have/ Keep us wide awake all night…” Weekend poem, by DeWitt Clinton, adapted from Tu Fu.
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