Monthly Archives: May 2012

Help Support the Best of Indie Literature New England

Radius has never asked for money, nor has its predecessor, The November 3rd Club. We don’t even take donations, which has been pointed out to us from time to time whenever we have to renew our hosting service. It’s all … Continue reading

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Invented Forms: The Upside Down Paradelle

Extractions By Grace Curtis We remove the tougher of these We remove the tougher of these And get angry when we are wise And get angry when we are wise Remove these when of the angry. Wise, we are, and … Continue reading

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Journeys Through the Underworld in Ai’s “Reunions with a Ghost”

By Lea C. Deschenes “Reunions with a Ghost” by Ai, read by Lea C. Deschenes By titling her poem “Reunions with a Ghost,” Ai foreshadows the poem’s connections with the myths of Odysseus, Orpheus, and Innana. All three narratives feature … Continue reading

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Poem by Laura Lee Washburn

Peace and Reckoning By Laura Lee Washburn i. Of Whom to Beware Every English teacher has a brother with a gun, somebody who goes out Thanksgiving for a duck. The teachers sit home with red pens, or so you would … Continue reading

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