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"Dear Loneliness" by Beth Day
DEAR LONELINESS You are the cold hand on the back of my neck the pulsing breath chained to my heart on days when the world grinds on my...
Lynda LeVan
Jul 24, 20171 min read
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Everything
Verbie and Hugh Prevost Award Winner for Outstanding Poetry from the Young Southern Student Writers Contest Maggie Thal, Grade 11 Signal...
Lynda LeVan
May 10, 20171 min read
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"The Gloaming" by William Howard Brown
THE GLOAMING Look, day is finished, night almost come. Dark mountains crowd the horizon, the sky awash in a pale half-light, air...
Lynda LeVan
Sep 29, 20161 min read
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Virtual Open Mic IV
HIGH CHAIR We are drooling love-eaters Love lands on our trays in bite-sized chunks Some of it stringy and fibrous and other chunks sweet...
Billy Faires
Aug 4, 20161 min read
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Virtual Open Mic III
HONESTY IN CHAOS I. A dusty garden of radishes So hot they burned my tongue My dead father’s deader dreams Long gone—and yet, I...
Crystal White
Aug 3, 20163 min read
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Virtual Open Mic I
SILENCE I know I’ve never listened as I did yesterday to anything like the compelling seduction of absolute silence while sitting in my...
George Hess
Aug 1, 20161 min read
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Fresh Ink: Howard Brown Returns to Mississippi for Literary Award
Howard Brown's "Pariah" won the first-place prize in poetry in the Faulkner Literary Competition hosted by the Union County Historical...
Rhett
Sep 29, 201516 min read
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