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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES ON LEAVE</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/25/saturday-poetry-series-on-leave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saturday Poetry Series]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: This, my beloved weekly poetry series, and I, your faithful editor, are currently on bereavement leave. We shall commune again through poetry on the other side.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14118&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RICHARD HOFFMAN</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/18/saturday-poetry-series-presents-richard-hoffman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INVENTORY By Richard Hoffman What I have given to sorrow, though I have poured out all I am again and again, does not amount to much. One winter’s snows. Two loves I could not welcome. A year of mostly silence. &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/18/saturday-poetry-series-presents-richard-hoffman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14082&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War Dead</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/16/war-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War Dead by William Trent Pancoast [an excerpt from the novel Wildcat] Milt Jeffers and the gang roamed through the shop hitting E-stops, shouting, and motioning for the men to leave the factory. There was no persuasion needed, although some &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/16/war-dead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14072&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Itch</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/05/the-itch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aiotb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Itch by Miriam N. Kotzin On certain summer afternoons when shadows stretch across the lawn and deer come out—five doe, one fawn— a distant wood thrush pipes his tunes. The deer have come to graze on grass and eat &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/05/the-itch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14066&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: BOBBI LURIE</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/04/saturday-poetry-series-presents-bobbi-lurie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLOWLY By Bobbi Lurie (Today&#8217;s poem originally appeared in The Medulla Review and appears here today with permission from the poet.) Bobbi Lurie is the author of three poetry collections: Grief Suite, The Book I Never Read, and Letter from &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/02/04/saturday-poetry-series-presents-bobbi-lurie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14039&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: KAT WHITE</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/28/saturday-poetry-series-presents-kat-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTER By Kat White After I die, let it be said that my pussy tasted of children&#8217;s unspoiled dreams. May eunuchs charcoal sketch me and Miles smoking brown cigarettes and drunk-swaying, broadcast all night, all over Barcelona TV. After I &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/28/saturday-poetry-series-presents-kat-white/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14027&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolution Will Be Edible: Occupy Wall Street; the Arab Spring, No Bread, No Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhysjulien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Liam Hysjulien “let’s get together and get some land raise our food like the man save our money like the mob put up the fight, own the job”                         -James Brown Last February, World Bank President Robert Zoellick noted &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/25/the-revolution-will-be-edible-occupy-wall-street-the-arab-spring-no-bread-no-peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=14015&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HOWIE GOOD</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/21/saturday-poetry-series-presents-howie-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL LIFE By Howie Good 1 I didn’t find what I expected, musk or ostrich plumes or ivory, only a room in a forlorn mansion where I paced and muttered through curiously long nights, caravans of the lost forming beneath &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/21/saturday-poetry-series-presents-howie-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=13983&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NO TO SOPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aiotb</dc:creator>
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		<title>SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EMILY PETTIT</title>
		<link>http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/14/saturday-poetry-series-presents-emily-pettit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sivan Butler-Rotholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOAT IN THE SNOW By Emily Pettit A goat is not a sheep, though I know people who have made this mistake not meaning to be flippant. This is not how to start a fire with sticks. I do not &#8230; <a href="http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/01/14/saturday-poetry-series-presents-emily-pettit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asitoughttobe.com&amp;blog=8479685&amp;post=13959&amp;subd=asitoughttobe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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