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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Bruce Covey
The Difference Between Toggle Bolts & Molly Screws It's like the atlantic around here—jittery & Full of waves, a desperate need for a horizontal & vertical juxtaposition, a corner, a vantage point A start. And if that weren't enough, this... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Paige Taggart
from To People Who Sometimes Read A female blue whale calf gains nine pounds an hour. Holy fuck! What a mammal. If only all females could see past their own insecurities, the fire would light a higher maternal flame. The... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Alice B. Fogel
Variation 1: Yhwh Explode from the cauldron dark, that’s what I’d do for them: That in mind into self and other I divided. In and in I overlapped in density and where I was gravid I breathed their breaths. With... Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Craig Santos Perez
from the ghost of the harvest madonna Tears of the Madonna, the Hunger and Other Stories. “Madonna Rescues Malawian Child – only 12 Million to Go.” A boy with an allergy to ghosts has trouble with too-logical teachers who say... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Joanna Ruocco
When I Worked for Madonna The bodyguards wear white The bullets fly towards them The bodyguards are clouds The bullets do not penetrate Kaddafi. The bullets are precipitation After we drink coffee, we check the bird feeders. Kaddafi has purple... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne
On the day of your favorite color: Here is the day of pumpkins, their hollow heads lit and leering. Here is the stripped sweetness of candy corn cupped in my hands. Here is fall swirling the leaves into a storm... Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Cynthia Arrieu-King
Bird Studies Human Studies Bird "Birds don't sing, they explain. Only people sing." --Kenneth Koch Mary Smith sings about how birds can punish us, studies any in the context of diversion or patterns. Birds that count are not really the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 15, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Steve Fellner
Ode To Matthew Shepard Once I hit someone I loved. It wasn’t very hard. But I hit him. I hit him in the way you hit someone you need to stop loving you. I can still remember the way the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Daniela Olszewska
Creation Myth/Golden Age A god from the East and/or above and/or far far away took to the notion to plant a fetal-curled seed by the banks of a body of water. Four hundred thousand years of deity- induced rain and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 25, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Fritz Ward
A ___ is a World, a Windstorm, a Love Letter Lost in the Breeze Dear Seizure of Church Bells, there were eleven hours left till the end of Memorialist Day. I was kneeling again, ambushed by my own ardor. I... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Karl Parker
A Museum of Making Do When all was said and done, the human parts were my favorites. Sun glints through glass roofs under which some move, irregularly ambulant. I’m glad we never make it to the mall, in the dream... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Evie Shockley
sagittarius when time lavas the lungs and you’ve begun to tack yourself like a hollywood voodoo doll to your own promises remember that you are an archer you know how to get a wish where it’s going by aiming above... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Rebecca Loudon
What I didn't say when the gasworks shook their iron tails in my direction There is a foot-shaped stain on the end of my mattress like Sibelius snapping a white tablecloth across the Baltic Sea inviting me to tea. Night... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Suzanne Frischkorn
Great Lash You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore. Our cornfields were paved in asphalt, sulfur lights snuffed our stars. When one of us had no shoes, we went barefoot, walking... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Jasper Bernes
Not This Mouth Bigger & bigger, everything is so daddy today it cuts No no no no, he repeats, doing it anyway, pulling at the peril-colored outlet strip: bear baby bread bad “If there’s a name for it, it isn’t... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Rauan Klassnik
That Morning Normally you’d gather your things and leave in a shy panic, but this morning you slept in with me and we made love again. In town, by the old stone fountain, there’s a man with an 8-foot albino... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Tiffany Midge
The Monster’s Bride Questions the Motives of Her Creator Those plugs jutting out from her neck: she’s curious, what are they for? The fiery thoroughfare of crisscrossing scars from temple to jaw, brow to ear: should she look for something... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Rebecca Lindenberg
from Love, an Index A Abandon, what I did when you touched me that winter with an ungloved hand. Ache, the heal of broken things: bones, disappointments. Allegories of Love, Fragonard’s babycolored paintings, Ovid’s pursuers and storied looms, his Atalanta... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Lynn Behrendt
Gossip Did you hear — Pinky Snortbutton proclivitized the socialist schemes vehemently. Then when snuffle sharded Hairy Humbug repented, the whoopsies who lived in the stone forest next door actualized plentiful anyway. Meanwhile Piggy Sleuthbrethren rekindled those waxen imaginariums and... Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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