BY CHRISTINE SCHRUM Nebraskan Ted Kooser When I attended a reading by U.S. Poet Laureate…
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BY FREDDY NIAGARA FONSECA We have all nursed illusions: give us the right ones! And…
BY GARY J. WHITEHEAD It’s impossible, isn’t it, to wakewhen it’s still dark and walk…
BY MEG HILL FITZ-RANDOLPH As one who reads poetry with about as much zeal as…
BY PAUL BROOKE In memory of Dale Wellman (Minden, Iowa) The fluorescent burn of fireflies,a…
BY DIANE FRANK You walk to the abandoned farmhouseknee deep in the stalksof last summer’s…
BY RUSTIN LARSON New Year’s Eve, curled in the swivelling chairin my parent’s TV room,…
BY JIM KARPEN Okay, here’s the most striking fact about my colleagueDiane Dumas, the Gadget…
BY JIM KARPEN In 1906 the British scientist Francis Galton, then in his 80sand still…
BY RACHEL GORDON Q. Over the past six or seven months I have been forcedto…