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Poem of the Week: Brooks Lampe

by Brian Chappell August 25, 2011 Poems News Events

Three Prose Poems 1. He begins the day with very strong, black coffee. He sits in his reading chair and stares at The Iliad. He opens it, reads: “As the fighter tore out the blood came gushing forth / and his heart sank.” He puts the book down and thinks about what the world is [...]

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Poem of the Week: Yahia Lababidi

by Brian Chappell August 4, 2011 Poems News Events

What do animals dream? Do they dream of past lives and unlived dreams unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial? Do they struggle to catch in their slumber what is too slippery for the fingers of day? Are there subtle nocturnal intimations to illuminate their undreaming hours? Are they haunted by specters of regret do they visit [...]

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Poem of the Week: Brittany Perham

by Sarah V. Schweig July 29, 2011 Poems News Events

IN A FAMILIAR CITY where the grass and the gravel tic-tic-tic on the pavement, the morning sprinters, or on the mountain where there are no trees, or just one, grown light and thinned out of the rock: there might as well be music. There might as well be a certain resting sky, and a picnic [...]

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Congrats to Michael Klein

by Poetry Blog Editors March 1, 2011 Poems News Events

Michael Klein’s book has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award! Buy the book at and read THEthe’s review by Genevieve Burger-Weiser here.

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