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Bhanu Kapil

Dung and Glitter

Morning, in Colorado, if I’m not teaching or trying to make a school lunch my offspring will actually eat, involves a second cup of Double Bergamot Earl Grey tea and a quick skim of The Guardian, online, with the memory of pretending to read it, a broadsheet, upside down in bed, with my dad.  The paper, not me.  I was two.

Thus, a few days ago, I paused, mid-sip, to read this: “Now he’s ditching the dung and the glitter, and going some place darker.”  And see this:

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Melissa Friedling

dmitri

Melissa Friedling

Mohammed, Abdel, Hassan, and Faisal

Melissa Friedling

Jerome

Melissa Friedling

Miller

Anselm Berrigan

“She is mirage I feverishly address as specific”

Spent some time in a clinic today, the waiting turning into an interesting duration (every time I encounter the word duration I think of Kenneth Koch staring off into space during an interview saying, “everything lasts a certain period of time….that’s very odd”)

Melissa Friedling

Vladimir, Ron, and Gregori

Melissa Friedling

Tomas

Melissa Friedling

Joe

Melissa Friedling

harper, jeannie, betsy

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IN THIS ISSUE: March 2010

Poetry Magazine

A selection of new work from Dorothea Grossman; new poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, David Yezzi, A.E. Stallings, Gerald Stern, and Dan Gerber; translations of Carlo Betocchi, and Mahmoud Darwish; an Editorial on Ruth Lilly; an exchange between Ilya Kaminsky and Adam Kirsch; an essay by Chen Li; and a review by Daisy Fried.

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