29 Jun Cottonwoods by David Lampe (1941-2025)

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On the Iowa plains, cottonwoods
sacred to the Lakota,
take root near deep ditches

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22 Jun TEACHING MILTON AT EIGHT A.M. by Graham Foust

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You’ve been not quite asked to be here,
and you’ve come all this way just to talk,
not just about the weather as it churns,
its gravid cumuli, but of progress, too,

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15 Jun Sonnet beginning with a line from George Economou’s Piers Plowman by Amy De’Ath

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For this good god grant me forgiveness for
my worthless living during during my entire lifetime
I couldn't be less inventive if I tried
What is the trajectory if the virus now?

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08 Jun Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty by Robin Lee Jordan

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I need you to be
flames now please

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01 Jun since blood is dark by Diego Espíritu Chávez

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the body aches and words say
exactly what I don’t want
: not everything in language is ours or belongs to us

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25 May Excerpts from Stock Pond by Justin Cox

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dirt helmet a
historical helmet an
artifact metal met with
smooth dirt

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18 May My Name by Irene Sipos

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My name means peace,
after Irene, the Greek goddess.

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11 May Taking Dictation​ by Brandel France de Bravo

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I’m Berlusconi minus the pomade, Putin’s twenty bottles
of vodka and birthday mash note. You’re one of my five
real friends. Just as a poet always writes for other poets,

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04 May Two poems by Peter Siedlecki

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Arrested,
Apprehended,
Disappeared,
Severed from those he loves.

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27 Apr Wounded by George Howell

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I take things too seriously,
take things to heart,
a cliché, yes

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