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Dale Wisely

10/07/2023 — 0

One Sentence Poems: UPDATE, NOV 15

This is going on. We are converting from a one-poem-at-a-time publishing approach to an online, issue-based journal. Our first issue is ready and set up at onesentencepoems.com. However, today, November 15, we put in a request for the domain name (onesentencepoems.com) to be applied to the new website. That sometimes takes up to 48 hours. […]

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11/12/2022 — 0

For Mimi Parker: “All That You Gave.”

Mimi: 
All that you gave This time it’s over so leave your weary bones and fly. For Mimi Parker (1967-2022), vocalist and drummer of the band Low. Poem is two lines taken from lyrics of the Low songs “Quorum” and “Fly” by Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, from the album Double Negative.    

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10/10/2022 — 0

From the Editors A Break As we announce that we are taking a two-week break posting poems, we express our appreciation to our readers, our contributors, and all who submit their work. Thank you. Make a note to visit us again October 24th! Dale, Elizabeth, Tony, & Natalie    

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08/29/2022 — 0

Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman “Mistaken Identity”

Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman Mistaken Identity Pulling into my driveway, I see a willie wagtail beating a skink to death on the pavement and the skink wriggles free and the wagtail grabs the frantic lizard, slams it down down DOWN and I mumble to myself just when you think you know someone. Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman is a poet […]

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08/24/2022 — 0

Brooks Lampe “Village and Town Kids”

Brooks Lampe Village and Town Kids Just look at these children, how their faces make them already old, as if something lodged itself in the caverns of their eyes, except the toddler, who stares at diurnal diamonds beyond the hills. Painting: France Kralj / Kmečki in mestni otroci (Village and Town Kids) Brooks Lampe teaches […]

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07/24/2022 — 0

from the editors: a test and a poem

Dale here. I am testing our email system that delivers our poems to our mailing list. We’re having a little trouble with it. It’s probably the heat. While I’m at it,  I’m including one of our previously posted poems from the archives. Here’s Megan Merchant, from 2017. Megan Merchant The hospital intake form wants me […]

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06/05/2022 — 0

Juan Pablo Mobili “What I Think I’ll Miss the Most”

Juan Pablo Mobili What I Think I’ll Miss the Most I think I will miss the most the sounds we don’t remember, the carafe stumbling to dock back on the coffee maker, the hand brushing the crumbs off the dinner table, that thought that rushes forth before I gasp.   Juan Pablo Mobili is a […]

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