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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TONY HOAGLAND

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SPRING!

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

New York’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 & Excerpts For Spring: For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ARLENE KIM

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

By Arlene Kim: (Today’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 … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: DARA BARNAT

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

WALT WHITMAN By Dara Barnat Walt Whitman walks with me down the street, holds doors open for me, whispers in my ear: You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you. Whitman, how good it feels, … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OSIP MANDELSTAM

Posted on December 29, 2012 by

“HEAVINESS, TENDERNESS . . .” By Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Eugene Serebryany Heaviness, tenderness—sisters, your traits are alike. Honeybees drink a rose that is tender and heavy. Someone passes away. Once-warm sand cooling down . . . … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HAFIZ

Posted on September 1, 2012 by

A GOLDEN COMPASS By Hafiz Forget every idea of right and wrong Any classroom ever taught you Because An empty heart, a tormented mind, Unkindness, jealousy and fear Are always the testimony You have been completely fooled! Turn your back … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EYES, STONES

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

                                   Cover illustration of Eyes, Stones: Threshold, by Kate Quarfordt FROM EYES, STONES By Elana Bell LETTER TO JERUSALEM To hold the bird and not to crush her, that is the secret. Sand turned too quickly to cement and who … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LI-YOUNG LEE

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

By Li-Young Lee: THE GIFT To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ANTHONY SEIDMAN

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

TRANSMISSION By Anthony Seidman A jungle, a small jungle, the size of a hummingbird-heart or crab-nebula witnessed through an Arizona telescope the girth of a blue whale’s lungs; a jungle only I can hear: its rustle of fronds, ant mandibles … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ELANA BELL

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

ON A HILLTOP AT THE NASSAR FARM, OVERLOOKING THE SETTLEMENT OF NEVE DANIEL By Elana Bell This is for Amal, whose name means hope, who thinks of each tree she’s planted like a child, whose family has lived in the … Continue reading →

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