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We Meet | Mónika Tóth
dedicated to my nice Romanian friend Vasile The ink The ink flows I write for you and I confess The truth is We meet Two beautiful heart Two beautiful soul Together we compose The best of poems The post We Meet | Mónika Tóth appeared first on Best Poetry Online. Go to Source Author: Best…
“How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?” [by David Lehman]
from “How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock? A Multiple-Choice Test for the Maestro’s Fans” By David Lehman | January 19, 2024 / in The American Scholar Ben Hur or message movies like To Kill A Mockingbird. But Hitchcock always used mystery genre conventions to explore themes of deeper significance; he relied on what he called “the MacGuffin,”…
Brian Swann: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________ Rags and Bones Sorting through his things like a rag-picker or the rags and bones man who’d give you a goldfish in a jam-jar for the stuff you brought him, I came across a…
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Restless, eager, loving The intensity of your desire consumed me Curious, shy and yearning The feelings grew despite the sorrow Have you ever met a soul with so much anger and so much love? Did you ever want, so badly, to kiss so roughly it became a bite? Like waves our feelings, a sea of…
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Born 1957, 18th February, Shillong India. Welsh Mission Hospital. The eyes blue, so blue like a British exclaimed the doctor. A hundred years after the mutiny. Mother came from Mymensing, now in Bangladesh. A migrant with no stories of bloodshed, only that of one humanity. Hindu/Muslim. Now a migrant, I search for those living roots,…
Paul Violi Picks the Contest Winners!
In December 2007, the late Paul Violi (left) read the entries for our BEST AMERICAN POETRY challenge # 2. We repost the results today, Paul’s birthday. THE CHALLENGE (devised by David Lehman): When deciphered, this anagram HIT THE LUMP OF RICH SEAL represents the title of a book of poems by a past guest editor…