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robinhooding
Why I’ve got today This niggling feeling Like I’m The Principled Nazi Lieutenant With a Conscience defending A downed RAF pilot Of pure shamrock Irish stare (And this for fookin’ nuthin’: He’ll die, of...
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Lisa McCool-Grime Senior Poetry Editor In this series we have thus far presented a long, action-loaded rough draft and then a total scrap-and-revise, tanka-inspired revision. This week’s installment is...
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The Cantos
I hear Ezra Pound croaked without making a sound. No last rasp as his crooked legs crashed. I hear your aunt passed. I apologize. “I am nothing but bereft for her.” This is a chant & I realize 89%...
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Lisa McCool-Grime Senior Poetry Editor Synthesis: This is not so much an act of combining as it is an act of harmonizing. Which parts of the previous drafts have shown themselves to be extraneous and...
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Broken men were her specialty
oblique sermon in the strip mall man dressed up as pizza arms restrained beneath soft beige polyester such lust mother in the mausoleum since acne season floating island not just dessert I want you I...
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Journalism to Fiction and Self-Publishing: An Interview with Ed Pilolla
Interviewed by Magdalawit Makonnen. Magdalawit Makonnen: You’re a journalist by training and have won several awards for your journalism. When did you transition into literary fiction and poetry? Ed...
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Forever, or Whatever
1. Can a free-write about marriage be free or is it an oxymoron? Marriage begs payment: pay for the husband to take the woman (cow) off the hands of her father, as father grows tired of the...
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Experiments in Revision, Final Reflections
by Niki Selken You know how it feels to write or make a first draft of something, then rework it until it shines like the top of Chrysler Building? You know how you kind of want to burn that first...
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The Death of Adam: A Kaddish
Adam is dead and I eat Greek yogurt in my office between classes. Adam is dead and I reply to emails requesting recommendations. I purchase Iron and Wine tickets for their November show on South Beach....
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Everyone Needs A Break Sometimes
The time has come to give The Splinter Generation a break. We could not be more proud of the work of our authors, our editors, and our readers. Our editors and authors have moved onto doing incredibly...
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