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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES ON LEAVE

Editor’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.

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RICHARD HOFFMAN

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. … Continue reading

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The Itch

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 … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: BOBBI LURIE

SLOWLY By Bobbi Lurie (Today’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 … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: KAT WHITE

AFTER By Kat White After I die, let it be said that my pussy tasted of children’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 … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HOWIE GOOD

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 … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EMILY PETTIT

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 … Continue reading

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Franki Elliot

Miss in Polish by Franki Elliot My grandma can’t tell you my name but she knows I live in Chicago. She knows I have a brother, and he lives in Chicago too. She adjusts her hospital gown and says, “You … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: NICOLE STEINBERG

Nicole Steinberg’s collection of sonnets, Getting Lucky, was created using editorial copy from Lucky, a women’s style magazine. Each poem contains original text from an issue of Lucky and is named for a woman featured in that issue. By Nicole … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: J. P. DANCING BEAR

NOT PERSEPHONE By J. P. Dancing Bear tonight you’re feeling a little vulturish: in your tuxedo: it’s not a pomegranate on your silver tray: and she’s not Persephone: but you offer it to her anyway: she is weary of the … Continue reading

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