Vivian Maier
“Vivian, maybe the secret was in your name,/a twisted code of semantics. Like the rest of us,/ you were the food you ate, the girl and the candy/ at the movies…” Poem of the Week (April 21), by Craig Martin Getz.
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Bruno Chooses Bisexual
“Bruno is lured by their stare into the struggle—/ their unwillingness to ignore…” Weekend poem, by Charles McGregor.
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He Will Sing to You
“Everyone has to find something, señora… I carry birds. Which one do you like?” Story of the Week (April 17) by Michael McGuire.
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Contains Spoilers
“the things I long for are edited out of movies. maybe / they just exist, even less than perfection, like love// and rain…” Poem of the Week (April 14), by Carla Jones.
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how to fill a memory box
“add measured doses of sex/ and cigarettes./ yes,/ measured….”
Weekend poem, by Shobhana Kumar.
Raag Marwa
“There is no harmony, no melody, no symphony. Only this. And now. This empty moment of forever.” Story of the Week (April 10), by Farah Ahamed.
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The Strength
“This was break time/ and Milan in 1990, West Germany/ and Holland…” Poem of the Week (April 7), by Owen Vince.
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in caravaggio’s ikon
“Thomas,/ Apostle to our secular, mocking, murderous/ new age…” Weekend poem for Easter Sunday, by John Robert Lee.
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On a December Noon
“I took out my pouch, and extracted the wooden pipe/ Swollen recently by the deceased’s lips…” Poem of the Week (March 31), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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The Einstein-machine
“But there at the edge of the embankment stood God’s/ blue Morris forgotten in the lyme grass…” Weekend Poem, by Niels Hav. Translated from Danish by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen
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