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Thanks to Stirring for publishing this poem about taking my mom to hospice in the hours before she died. Hospice 1. Lift I lifted my mother’s body from the passenger seat- the notches of her spine, her slats of ribs- each bone against my skin, her weight pulling me down even as I lifted her […read
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My poem “Poem in which Words Have Been Left Out” is the Poem-of-the-Day today at Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets! It’s based on the “Miranda Rights,” the set of rote statements officers of the law must recite when taking someone into custody. This practice came out of a U.S. Supreme Court
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Thank you to Matt Bell and Matthew Olzmann for including three new poems in the latest issue of The Collagist! Letters to the Editor Dear Drivers of Suburban Maryland, my life is in your hands. My life in your hands is an unpinned grenade. Prospero’s Confession What wreckage, I forgot. What courage to sail, forgot.
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Dzanc Books’s new online literary magazine The Collagist is alive today. Editor Matt Bell explains in this letter: “Looking at this list of contributors, I am so blown away by the size of their talents, the scope of their accomplishments, by the potential of the future words each has yet to unleash upon the page.
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Q: When is a book of poetry 8.5″ x 8.5″? A: When it is The First Risk, coming atcha Sept 24, 2009.
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Miguel Murphy edited OCHO 22, an all gay and lesbian issue seeking to capture the wide variety of voices within the community, collected in response to the civil rights travesty of the passing of Proposition 8 in California. Go here now.
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