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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: CARL PHILLIPS</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/18/saturday-poetry-series-presents-carl-phillips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 07:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHROMATIC BLACK By Carl Phillips Of the many things that he used to say to me, there are two I’m certain of: You taste like a last less-than-long summer afternoon by the shore just before September; and You’re the kind &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/18/saturday-poetry-series-presents-carl-phillips/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=17066&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NICOLE LOMANGINO</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/17/nicole-lomangino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NICOLE LOMANGINO @STANFORD UNIVERSITY ART SPACE by Anthony Torres Now at Stanford University Art Space is the work of Nicole Lomangino, an artist whose personal translations and representations of geishas articulate a longstanding interest in Japanese art and myths. The &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/17/nicole-lomangino/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=17060&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TONY HOAGLAND</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/11/saturday-poetry-series-presents-tony-hoagland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 07:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE COMPLEX SENTENCE By Tony Hoagland The kind Italian driver of the bus to Rome invited her to his house—she was obviously hungry—and gave her sandwiches and raped her. All those years ago—she smiles while telling it—contemptuous, somehow of her &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/11/saturday-poetry-series-presents-tony-hoagland/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=17037&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SPRING!</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/04/saturday-poetry-series-presents-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York&#8217;s Jefferson Market Garden in full spring bloom; the editor enjoying the same. Flower photos by Sivan Butler-Rotholz. Editor photo by Frank Ortega. Poems &#38; Excerpts For Spring: For winter&#8217;s rains and ruins are over, And all the season &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/05/04/saturday-poetry-series-presents-spring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16996&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ARLENE KIM</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/27/saturday-poetry-series-presents-arlene-kim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Arlene Kim: (Today&#8217;s poems originally appeared in Diode and appear here today with permission from the poet.) Arlene Kim grew up on the east coast of the U.S. before drifting westward. Her first collection of poems What have you &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/27/saturday-poetry-series-presents-arlene-kim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16972&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4/19/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aiotb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon Bombing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/19/2013 by James Tadd Adcox [The following is an attempt to make something out of a pre-narrative moment. The words come from news programs, radio broadcasts, online stories, tweets and text messages intercepted on April 19, 2013, between the hours &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/21/4192013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16967&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: CATHERINE PIERCE</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/20/saturday-poetry-series-presents-catherine-pierce-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catherine Pierce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Megan Bean BECAUSE I&#8217;LL NEVER SWIM IN EVERY OCEAN By Catherine Pierce Want is ten thousand blue feathers falling all around me, and me unable to stomach that I might catch five but never ten thousand. So I &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/20/saturday-poetry-series-presents-catherine-pierce-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16942&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MATT HART</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/13/saturday-poetry-series-presents-matt-hart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAILY CHORES By Matt Hart The important things don’t just happen by accident They don’t get said if no one’s willing to go out on a limb and maybe fall into the waiting arms of the meadow, the meadow so &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/13/saturday-poetry-series-presents-matt-hart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16924&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/06/saturday-poetry-series-presents-edna-st-vincent-millay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPRING By Edna St. Vincent Millay To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/04/06/saturday-poetry-series-presents-edna-st-vincent-millay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16899&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: PRAYERS LIKE SHOES</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/03/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-prayers-like-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ruth Forman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM PRAYERS LIKE SHOES By Ruth Forman STAND why so afraid to stand up? someone will tell you sit down? but here is the truth someone will always tell you sit down the ones we remember kept standing PRAYERS LIKE &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2013/03/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-prayers-like-shoes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&#038;blog=8479685&#038;post=16806&#038;subd=asitoughttobe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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