Nachman of Breslov translation from Hebrew by Catherine B. Krause נחמן מברסלב — כל העולם כולו כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד והעיקר — לא לפחד כלל. A Very Narrow Bridge The whole world is all a very narrow bridge, and what’s important is to fear nothing at all. Rebbe Nachman (1772-1810) achieved much acclaim as […]
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Nancy Kay Peterson “Technological Impact”
Nancy Kay Peterson Technological Impact Where will blackbirds perch when we’ve all gone cellular. Nancy Kay Peterson likes epigrams.
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Andy Fogle “The stories”
Andy Fogle The stories The stories weren’t true, but they helped. Andy Fogle is a Virginian living in upstate New York, a poet studying education, and a musician teaching high school English.
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Peter Bakowski “Tourist couple”
Peter Bakowski Tourist couple At the lip of the volcano, their fierce argument continues. 2018 represents Peter Bakowski‘s 35th year of writing poetry. His poetry continues to appear in journals and online worldwide.
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J.R. Solonche “Aesthetics”
J.R. Solonche Aesthetics A poet I know showed me a letter he got from a reader in which this reader complained that his poems weren’t universal enough, and this so frustrated the reader (who called himself “a communicant not being communicated with”) that he wrote the letter to him, and the poet I know thought […]
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John Hicks “At Night in the Hut at Wang Gaew”
John Hicks At Night in the Hut at Wang Gaew Memory’s brass lamp yellow softens darkness into the ceiling, and in these corners, goes gray. John Hicks writes his poetry in the thin air of Placitas, New Mexico.
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Esther Cohen “Varanasi”
Esther Cohen Varanasi If my vocabulary were better than red yellow fuschia maybe then I could tell you India. Esther Cohen wishes she had a bigger vocabulary. She publishes poems every day at esthercohen.com.
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Claudia Serea “Self Portrait”
Claudia Serea Self Portrait Claudia is to a cloud as chalk is to chocolate. Claudia Serea’s poems and translations have appeared in Field, New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Gravel, among others, and she’s the author of four poetry collections, most recently Nothing Important Happened Today (Broadstone Books, 2016).
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