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The poem “Gertrude Stein” by Mina Loy is a brief yet beautiful homage to the poem’s namesake. The poem is a single sentence, only nine short lines, but a lot … Continue Reading Gertrude Stein: Mina Loy Was Concise
One of the things I love most about living in Farmington is that it reminds me very much of Stars Hollow (which is the town where the Gilmore Girls reside). … Continue Reading A Stars Hollow Spring
By Richard Schreck Clinging to the nearest seat back for support, Marta Novak stood in the crowded aisle as the metro train descended below street level. Strangers’ bodies pressed in. … Continue Reading The Metro
By Allyson Petrek The instruction pamphlet says to dip the stick in for five seconds. Then, wait three minutes, no more than five. Because if you didn’t time things correctly, … Continue Reading Three Minutes
By Eben Lee Thomas Five deer tense in dense bright airof backyard hung between full moonand snow-pack. The short-horned buck staresat road, at dry-line, at house, and I in my … Continue Reading Deer Stand
By William Miller In a green, humpbacked late 50’s car, we were always driving but never seemed to get anywhere. My dad smoked like most people breathed, never let a … Continue Reading Home
By William Miller They remain, always, unknown continents where coastlines might be seen, touched, never the interior growth, the tall, foreboding trees or the caves between the rocks. And when … Continue Reading Other People
for Jon By Anthony Botti I do not remember what I was like before you. Early mornings, you swim in the sharp, nurturing surf. Our thirty-year relationship is like this … Continue Reading Winter Shoreline in Miami
the crocus at the end of winter By Anthony Botti So early, it’s almost dark. It’s nearly time now. I have lost my concentration in one of the coldest winters … Continue Reading Thaw in the Berkshires
Yes, really clotheslines. The poem “Ode to the Clothesline” by Kwame Dawes means a lot to me because it was one of the first poems where I felt like I … Continue Reading Ode to the Clothesline: Really, Clotheslines…
Something that is very common in the lives of the Gilmore Girls is their excessive shopping habits. Many fans of the show question how Lorelai was able to afford her … Continue Reading Shopping Chronicles
By Robert Thomas Birds alightOn dying commotionPlaying and pipingThey sing to finality.Dogs earlier noticedOnly tugging and probingNow pit the air with distant yelps.Planes drone suddenlyA droning paradeEager and white-tailedIn the … Continue Reading Hearing Dusk
b y By Robert James Gleeful stumbles on graniteThe canoe is roughly landedWhere is the sharp filleting knife?A victory – hold it aloft and stand togetherWe’ll capture it on filmThe … Continue Reading Big Fat Lake Trout
The Poem “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith has recently become one of my favorite poems. I first encountered this poem at a writing camp that I counsel at during the … Continue Reading Good Bones: Who Are We Talking to?
For as long as I have been a fan of Gilmore Girls I have placed myself in the box that only allows me to share the same characteristics as one … Continue Reading My Own Lorelai Moment
By Andrew Vogel We never played in parks so’s I remember. Rail yards back behind the neighborhood, we would steal pallets and rusty racks from the warehouses and build forts … Continue Reading Vanishing Point