great poem
Posted to Action Poetry
by Anya on 2001-04-11 18:51:00
this man
on my t.v.
plays a game
where only
he is allowed to cheat,
and we all know he'll win, but
we let him play
hoping he'll choose to play,
by the rules,
maybe next time.
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by Marc Eliot Stein Sunday, December 20, 2020 08:42 am
I took the #WidemanChallenge, in which a few literary critics, bloggers and journalists spent the end of 2020 calling attention to a writer that too few people know about: John Edgar Wideman, an important voice from the Rust Belt whose works are keenly relevant in the year of George Floyd. Here's what happened when I read two of his books.
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by Marc Eliot Stein Monday, October 26, 2020 09:18 am
Excerpts from Diane di Prima's "Revolutionary Letters".
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