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Tag Archives: Elegies for Poets
Poem by D.M Aderibigbe
Fallen Apart For Chinua Achebe By D.M Aderibigbe Ah! Grandpa Chinua, who Could have ever known the soil of Ogidi could fashion out A seer, you’re a man of the people, For sure I know, but like you said, We’ve … Continue reading
Absent Friends: Radius, Volume Three
By Victor D. Infante These past few weeks, I have been preoccupied with my late friend Jack McCarthy. Jack was one of the best poets and people I knew, and I find his ghost speaking to me whenever I type. … Continue reading
Posted in Editors
Tagged Angela Boyce, Bob Challman, David Blair, Dennis Brutus, Elegies for Poets, Erica Erdman, FrancEye, Gabrielle Bouliane, Hugh Fox, Jack McCarthy, Kathleen Hietala, Ken Hunt, Lawrence Schulz, Lisa King, Merilene Murphy, Pat Storm, Peter Conti, Scott Wannberg, Shannon Leigh, Ted Walker
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Poem by Lorna Knowles Blake
Mackerel Sky in memoriam Rachel Wetzsteon By Lorna Knowles Blake I am now the foster mother of your book of clouds. A book we both had thought to buy, seduced by the review (halos, sun dogs, coronas!). When I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged Elegies for Poets, Lorna Knowles Blake, Rachel Wetzsteon
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Poem by Scott Beal
Elegy in Six Limericks — for Spencer Miles Kimball By Scott Beal There was an old man of Ann Arbor who was notably shy of the barber. While he’d calibrate phrases and navigate mazes his bright beard grew to cover … Continue reading
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Tagged Elegies for Poets, Scott Beal, Spencer Miles Kimball
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Poem by Karrie Waarala
Processional (for D. Blair) By Karrie Waarala When you died, a parade poured out of your mouth. Minuscule tubas honked, butterfly wing parasols waved, a dreadlocked conductor led the way, shrilling his whistle, stomping his feet in syncopated 4/4 time … Continue reading
Poem by By Paulie Lipman
Shrayen For David Blair and the city of Denver By Paulie Lipman Somewhere in this apt building a guitar is being strangled not the erotic asphyxia of Hendrix but the rope a dope of a past prime boxer who sounds … Continue reading
Two Poems By Iris Jamahl Dunkle
The Distance Between by Iris Jamahl Dunkle 1 Grateful for the tree, not just what’s air-bound: oak trunk thick enough to thwart cannon balls black bark, dark tributaries opening arthritically toward sky but also what’s beneath soil’s vinculum: uncharted roots, … Continue reading
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Tagged Deborah Digges, Elegies for Poets, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, political poems
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Where We Stand: Poetry, Legacy and Sorrow
By Victor D. Infante It would have been Erica Erdman’s birthday today, a fact the Internet has been reminding me of incessently. It’s a jarring little quirk of technology, this seeing the names and faces of dead friends appear unbidden … Continue reading
Poem by Leslie McGrath
Two Poles and a Suicide (in memoriam Reetika Vazirani) By Leslie McGrath Look how her dark eyes smile black as her last night, though the photo is curled, yellow. A chip. A chip to shoulder. She was sorceress, sorely loved, … Continue reading
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Tagged Elegies for Poets, Leslie McGrath, Reetika Vazirani
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Poem by A. RAZOR
for scott wannberg By A. RAZOR he rides off at the end before the credits roll like teardrops hey, man, like where you at with it? what gives? big heartedness is like a loch ness nessie all spellbound in these … Continue reading