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The Morning Reading: "You know how the past tense turns a sentence dark" 27 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
Childhood Ideogram - Larry Levis I lay my head sideways on the desk, My fingers interlocked under my cheekbones, My eyes closed. It was a three-room schoolhouse, White, with a small bell tower, an oa...
The Morning Reading: "Sands teeth, sands eyes, sands taste, sands everything" 21 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Late August on the Lido - John Hollander To lie on these beaches for another summer Would not become them at all, And yet the water and her sands will suffer When, in the fall, These golden children ...
Submit! Gold Line Press 10 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The deadline approacheth for this terrific contest. Pay attention poets and prose writers! Last year's fiction winner - Alisa Sluaghter's Bad Habitats (chosen by writer Dana Johnson) is a wonderful e...
The Morning Reading: "on the wall Hiroshima weeps" 9 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Canvas on the Wall - Mamoud Darwish …and we keep saying things about the sunset on the little land, while on the wall Hiroshima weeps, another night passes, as all we take from our world is the form ...
The Morning Reading: "I say indigo, Hiroshima, continents soaked in tea." 6 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Echo & Elixir 2 - Khaled Mattawa Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in English. I answer, and they say your Arabic is good. How long have you been with us? All my life I tell them, but I’m never believ...
The Morning Reading: "I wish what I wished you before, but harder." 20 Jul 2013 | 08:22 pm
The Writer - Richard Wilbur In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story. I pause in the stairwell, hearing From he...
The Morning Reading: "for they are beautiful" 14 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
"Photograph: my grandsons/spinning in their joy" -Lucille Clifton universe keep them turning turning black blurs against the window of the world for they are beautiful and there is trouble coming r....
The Morning Reading: "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" 4 Jul 2013 | 11:27 pm
Topography After we flew across the country we got into bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York, your Fire Isl...
Reading: Julie Sarkissian at Silverado Library 26 Jun 2013 | 01:19 am
JULIE SARKISSIAN returns to the Orange County canyons where she grew up to read from her debut novel, "Dear Lucy." Tonight! Tuesday June 25 at the Silverado Library in Silverado Canyon at 7PM. from ...
The Morning Reading: " We all travel the milky way together, trees and men" 26 Jun 2013 | 12:58 am
from John Muir, "A wind-storm in the Forests" - Most people like to look at mountain rivers, and bear them in mind; but few care to look at the winds, though far more beautiful and sublime, and thoug...
