Poetry – Page 12 – Across the Margin

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Three Poems by Ed Meek

These three poems by Ed Meek were triggered by actual events: a stranger is discovered on the porch in…

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These two poems by Charlie Brice engage the world of wish fulfillment. “What if You Slept” is a dream that…

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These three poems by Stephen C. Middleton take improvised music, an artform that to quote McCoy Tyner is “as…

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A look at the latest work from poet Ed Meek, an enticing compilation entitled High Tide that acts as…

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These two poems by Michael Caylo-Baradi toe the line between rapture and rupture, the faultline in any city sanctioned by…

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A gothic tale inspired by the real life story of Dante Rossetti’s exhumation of his wife and pre-Raphaelite muse…

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A poetic ode to famed, and currently controversial, artist Philip Guston, who consistently tried to put himself in other…

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These three poems by Sarah Lilius explore the anguish often endured by women who are trapped, either by their own…

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These three poems by Peter Lilly invite the reader to intimately experience the uneven passage of time. Looking back,…

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These three poems by Phillip Shabazz explore memory haunted by national tragedy and the personal consequences of human acts…

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These three poems by Terence Winch have a radiating grade of dialectical energy in which opposing forces are synthesized,…

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The first of these three poems by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens dances down the aisle of a paint store as colors…