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OUTLAW MLA ADJACENT EVENT
Thoughts from the desk Anthony Watkins, I know it won’t go far in New Orleans, especially on the MLA week, but I would put up $100 sponsorship from Better Than… read more
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Nobody Wants to Work, Anymore
(a continuing series) ANTHONY WATKINS – Socio-economics, Tallahassee, FL, USA Next time you are in a drive thru or a sit down restaurant and the service is slow and maybe… read more
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A Civil Society
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, Florida, USA In a world where inhumanity has been the norm for millennia, it is easy to look at one group or person and think they… read more
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Genocide will do it!
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA This old fart was firmly in the pro-Israeli camp until Oct 8. The mass killing of innocents by the Israeli forces made me reexamine… read more
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Abounding Freedom
Review – ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Julien Gracq – translated from French by Alice Yang WORLD POETRY 2024 As a lifelong poet (I started writing poetry before I… read more
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There is Fire in that Coffee Cup
ANTHONY WATKINS – Review, Coffee Cup, Pensacola, FL, USA Its Sunday morning, 10 am. There is a tall lanky guy in his 40s is wiping down tables, bussing dirty dishes… read more
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Three Poems by
STEVE DENEHAN – Kildare, IRE Graffiti It is not the lightsthe buildings, the peoplethat I look atbut the graffition the tunnel wallsthe subway trains really movethe tunnels that contain themmade… read more
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Luddite, a poem
SÉAMUS DUGGAN – Portarlington, Laois, IRE Luddite The boy signed off all services dropped his phone into the river and headed into the mountains where forest reigns. Dressed in clothes… read more
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Four Poems by Marwan Makhoul translated by Raphael Cohen
MARWAN MAKHOUL – Maalot Tarshiha, North District, Israel Marwan Makhoul An Arab at Ben Gurion Airport I’m an Arab! I shouted, at the doorway to departures, short-cutting the woman soldier’s… read more
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Gaza – Bombay Suture
SOPHIA NAZ – Glen Ellen, CA, USA What’s the warp and what the weftRunning through this weaving? -Kabir by the tongue where tomorrowand yesterday are one, call out juxtaposition of… read more
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Three Poems by AMIRAH AL WASSIF
AMIRAH AL WASSIF – Egypt After my dad’s funeral After my dad’s funeral, I wore his clothesI still remember how terrible my relatives and neighbors stared at me.First, they whispered… read more
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Poetry is a Shoebox
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Where I keep all the bits and pieces, the left overs, the saved parts the map of how to change the world. Of course… read more
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A Second Look at A Christmas Carol
Political Review – ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA As a youngster growing up in a conservative pro-capitalist home, as I emerged into a more progressive mindset, I thought of… read more
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Poems by Rae Armantrout
RAE ARMANTROUT – California, USA PREPAREDNESS Animals find us eerie.We can see what’s coming in broad strokes– washed out,frequently displaced. Still, it smites us. Like ghosts we pass back and… read more
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Rae Armantrout Interview
INTERVIEW – Better Than The Times Rae Armantrrout Rae Armantrout Interview Questions First, it is an honor to interview you again. The last time, in 2018, you had just published… read more
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The Five Senses
PETER MLADINIC – Hobbs, NM, USA The Five Senses, a review of Resurrection River by Anthony Watkins. The University Press. Oxford Square-on-Thames, Alexandria. 2024. $11.00 paper. The five senses are… read more
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Fine Powder
DENNIS ANDREW S. AGUINALDO – Los Baños, Laguna, PH We wasted baby powder on our young hair.Thus made old, we spoke as grandparents to each other— “Children, gather for a… read more
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