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Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart
2023-12-06by Sarah Getty sits with a small smile, watching two speckled frogs or lizards run right and left, apart, together on long legs bendable as rubber. He...
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The Poem as Mask
2023-12-06by Muriel Rukeyser When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask, on their mountain, gold-hunting, singing, in orgy, it was a ...
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The Poems I Have Not Written
2023-12-06by John Brehm I'm so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written would reach from here to the California coast if you laid them end to end. An...
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The Poet of Bray
2023-12-06by John Heath-Stubbs Back in the dear old thirties' days When politics was passion A harmless left-wing bard was I And so I grew in fashion: Altho...
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Chansons Innocentes
2023-12-06by E. E. Cummings in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from m...
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The Pomegranate
2023-12-06by Eavan Boland The only legend I have ever loved is the story of a daughter lost in hell. And found and rescued there. Love and blackmail are the gis...
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The Portrait
2023-12-06by Stanley Kunitz My mother never forgave my father for killing himself, especially at such an awkward time and in a public park, that spring when I w...
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The Potato
2023-12-06by Joseph Stroud Three days into the journey I lost the Inca Trail and scrambled around the Andes in a growing panic when on a hillside below snowline...
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The Present Writer
2023-12-06by Coner O'Callaghan answers questions vaguely, as if from distance, cares less for the dribs and drabs of his libido; gets more droll, lachrymose...
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Chaplinesque
2023-12-06by E. E. Cummings in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come by Hart Crane ...