Friday, January 27, 2023

Friday, January 27, 2023: Miriam Sagan's "What I Forgot to Say" and "What I Forgot to Say to Mother"

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  What I Forgot to Say   I like your hair. I’m sorry I mentioned your hair. Hair is a dangerous topic between mother and daughter. If I no...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Friday, Jan 20, 2023: Jeanie Greenfelder's "Childhood Garden"

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  Childhood’s Garden          Back when a star was something to wish on, all I knew was family, friends, home,  street, and the-corner-groce...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Friday, January 6, 2022: Two poems by Maria A. Arana

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hungry fire… young woman   hungry fire quiet mist dangerous goddess come heave elaborate words to a young woman stabbed beauty playing a gam...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Tuesday, December 13, 2022: Jan Steckel's "Being Disabled in a Pandemic"

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One of my two best friends is a butch lesbian I’ll call Jess, the other a straight man I’ll call Will. We’ve all known each other for thirty...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Tuesday, December 6, 2022: Belinda Subraman's "4:00 a,m., again," and "Future History"

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4:00 a.m. again and no sleep I tried forest sounds including a stream and an owl. I tried happy tv traveling, remodeling  other animals in t...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Tuesday, November 29, 2022" Gabriella Garafolo's "A Blue Conundrum"

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  Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at si...