Monthly Archives: March 2014

Four Poems by John Paul Davis

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March 31, 2014 by author

John Woolman’s 21st Century Blues
By John Paul Davis

I have an idea about justice. The smartphones
remember more & more for us every year. We don’t
call it slavery because we pay the laborers
next … Continue reading→

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Four Poems by Mariya Deykute

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March 22, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

…and all the host of them.
By Mariya Deykute

We waited for something to happen to us. Moscow glittered like the Snow
Queen’s palace. Wet blubbery things reached through the Kremlin. Parents
traveled with plaid bags large … Continue reading→

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Team Internet: On the Road to the National Poetry Slam

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March 20, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Tatyana Brown

The relationship between poetry as it is performed and websites such as YouTube and Upworthy is a rich and complicated one. Purists will tell you nothing compares to being in the room with a live audience in … Continue reading→

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Riposte to Victor D. Infante

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March 18, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

by Wilbur Dee Case

As T. S. Eliot once noted in an essay of his, which I am merely paraphrasing from memory, the poet approaches literary criticism from a different vantage point than the scholar. Now that might have had … Continue reading→