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June’s Featured Poet – Lynne Knight | Contemporary American Voices
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A journal of poetry. June’s Featured Poet – Lynne Knight. June 1, 2015 in Blogroll. Stop spending so much time in the dark. My mother said, insinuating sex. With the boy down the street, masturbation,. Who knew. It was worse when I decided. To sleep nude. If the nuns could see you! Poor nuns, wrapped like mummies in their linens. Nothing was ever said directly, not by the nuns,. Not by my mother. The book she gave me. At thirteen to teach about sex had such discreet,. This is what happened when it was.
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May’s Featured Poet – Norbert Krapf | Contemporary American Voices
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A journal of poetry. May’s Featured Poet – Norbert Krapf. May 1, 2015 in Blogroll. Tags: Diane L. Lewis. Other notable works by JL Kato. And Diane L. Lewis. Playing trombone on Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust. In the dance band as a high school freshman. In the glow of soft purple light with a few guys. And mostly girls dancing in socks was ultra cool,. But marching in the band during halftime of football. Games was anything but. Once Mr. Cox, the band. Director, caught me dogging it in practice for the state.
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July’s Featured Poet – Sarah Brown Weitzman | Contemporary American Voices
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A journal of poetry. July’s Featured Poet – Sarah Brown Weitzman. July 1, 2015 in Contemporary American Voices. Tags: Sarah Brown Weitzman. ODE TO YOUR FEET. How modestly and unashamed. Your feet peeled out of their socks. Like a secret revealed. But more square, white. As wrists. Shy. Shadows between each toe. As big toes can be. Sticking out from under sheets. Never flinging themselves about. Like hands. Never bending. Or scraping like knees. Or bulging obscenely like muscles. Of legs but stupid. With ...
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Little Lark Press | Contemporary American Voices
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A journal of poetry. Is devoted to publishing unique and eclectic collections of poetry, prose and otherwise. For queries: littlelarkpress@gmail.com. The Whole Desolate Day. An anthology of poetry on addiction. A collection of letters. Editor, Lisa Zaran. Confirmed Featured Poets – 2007. January - Roger Humes. February - Jimmy Santiago Baca. March - Graham Burchell. April - Ruth Daigon. May - Anne Fraser. June - Corey Mesler. July - Scott Malby. August - James Keane. September - Maurice Oliver. October -...
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August’s Featured Poet – Tom Montag | Contemporary American Voices
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A journal of poetry. August’s Featured Poet – Tom Montag. August 1, 2015 in Blogroll. Other notable works by Michael Meyerhofer. It’s a high, dry place on the short grass where. We pause in a sharp wind among the graves. Oh, the great sadness, the distance tawny. With it, the color of wind, of wind and. Desolation, here where it seems we are. Alone, even as we stand together. So all the crows settle down. To sort things out, though there’s. Not much difference to sift. We are at the edge of. Starts playi...
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