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EQUAL ARMS 1 BY ELDER GIDEON
Elder Gideon, MFA, is a practicing poet, essayist, painter, sculptor, educator, and queer...
Read MorePIG LUNG SOUP RICK CHRISTIANSEN
Everything must be chewed and digested You remember many times In the back seat of a car Holding your whole world In a paper bag In your lap No idea where You are going Just knowing You have to get away You begin to fold And...
Read MoreA RAISIN IN THE SUN & LIONEL MOVES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BY OLIVIA PINNEY
For many years, various concepts concerning familial/financial and racism have been an important part of pop culture. The 1959 play, “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry and the 1971-1979 American sitcom, “All in the...
Read MoreFAMILY DESCRIPTION BY MARIANNE LONSDALE
I referred to my childhood home by its address: 704 Spruce. We all did. I’m the third of the eight Allio children. Jimmy, Cathy, Marianne (me), Matt, Joe, Pat, Vince and Don. We were somewhat two families, the older three, and...
Read MoreSERENO, TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST
from L’Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti Bosco di Couton luglio 1918 Dopo tanta nebbia a una a una si svelano le stelle Respiro il fresco che mi lascia il colore del cielo Mi riconosco imagine passegera Presa in un giro immortale...
Read MoreGIROVAGO, TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST
from L’Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti Campo di Mailly maggio 1918 In nessuna parte di terra mi posso accasare A ogni nuovo clima che incontra mi trovo languente che una volta gia gli ero stato assuefatto E me ne stacco sempre...
Read MoreLUCCA TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST
from L’Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti Parigi – Milano 1919 A casa mia, in Egitto, dopo cena, recitato il rosario, mia madre ci parlava di questi posti. La mia infanzia ne fu tutta meravigliata. La citta ha un traffic timorato e...
Read MoreHOW SAD THE YOUNG LIES HURT BY NIKOLAS MACIOCI
Slumped in a window seat, like a cardboard facsimile of myself, where sunlight brightens my wrinkled hands, I can’t hide the fact of being old. It’s been a tiresome life during which I sang songs inwardly, thinking I...
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