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Paula Schulz
Child, today you are angular mantistorn webclatter of bats Becomeflutter of leaves trilling one toneless crescendosway of tall grass lifting visual songbrook’s jabbering psalm,bright mica Copyright 2023 Paula Schultz Paula Schulz lives and writes in Slinger, Wisconsin, with her husband, … Continue reading
Sally Toner
To Ezra Pound I wish to swing by the fluff of your beard,smear your face with lavender oil, andnest in the hole of your throat I seethrough that unbuttoned shirt. May I please excavate each crease in yourbrow to know … Continue reading
Welcome to 30 or 30, Season 10
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years. 10 years of highlighting poets from around the world each April for National Poetry Month (or should we call it International Poetry Month?). That amounts to 300 poems. Or will by the … Continue reading
Announcing the 10th Annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration for National Poetry Month
The tenth annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration, sponsored by Potomac Review, will once again take place this year on mikemaggio.net This year’s challenge is as follows: Write a poem in which everything you want to say is expressed solely … Continue reading
And the Winner Is…
Thank you everyone for participating in this year’s 30 for 30 challenge. Our judge, David Anthony Sam, remarked that “the quality of the poetry was high,” and that he had a hard time choosing a winner. Nonetheless, he has selected … Continue reading
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Linda Trott Dickman
Love on Imaginary Boulevard No lonely pedestrians strolling, not one. Baking bread on the early morning breezes. Sounds of the ocean nearby, soothing rhythms Scent of plumeria, all tension fading. All hugs are welcome, warm, happily gifted. Little free libraries … Continue reading
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Kathy Cable Smaltz
Love on Imaginary Boulevard The letter arrives in her mailbox on a sunny day in April, that cruel month mixes winter and spring: cold rain on bright daffodils. I’d like to tell you she tears the envelope flap open, breeze … Continue reading
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Lynn Strongin
THERE IS NO mortar for grief THERE IS NO mortar for grief. Never. Honest, pure sunlight thru mutins. Clinic windows. Children’s ward. During childhood in hospital, I’d imagine: A Boulevard where kisses were exchanged evenings Over the Hudson River. Polio, … Continue reading
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Conrad Geller
Eros Rebuffed When Johnny Germaine went strolling down the street, the ladies looked at him in speculation: “Who is this man, so handsome, so suave, so neat? What’s his name, his marital situation?” Yet Johnny’s eyes were set on one, … Continue reading
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Josephine LoRe
Imaginary Boulevard night falls like rain in the curve of late season strangers coo under eaves where old songs are sung forgotten their homes, abandoned all reason conversant now only in strange whispered tongue trysting on Imaginary Boulevard here fingertips … Continue reading
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