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NEW!!! Lunar
Eclipse #9 -- essay by Janet Mason
Portrait
of a friendship: in memoriam Toni P. Brown, 11/4/52 to 4/17/08
Pride
in the Village (LGBT rights in NYC & India) --
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NY Pride Photos
Augusten
Burroughs
...Sappho........Capote
& Cather__ Dickinson
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Jeanette Winterson ....CAConrad....
James Baldwin ...Anita
Cornwell....Maria
Fama
Featured
poet -- NEW!!!
Anne Kaier
Toni Brown -- 11/4/08 - 4/19/08 -- in memoriam -- new poems, audio
Maralyn Lois Polak...Alexandra
Grilikhes....more
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Tea
Leaves: a memoir
of mothers and daughters
I took my
mother's death extremely hard. All the strength that I had when I was taking
care of her drained out of me. In the first months, and even through the first
year, I became ill frequently and was often so tired that I had to take a
nap in the afternoons. I dreaded talking to casual acquaintances because when
they asked what was new I would have to tell them...click
here.
Three
Sapphics
a woman alone is touch...she hears herself in wind...
read more about a woman alone
(Janet Mason) traveling in Athens, Crete, and Lesvos...
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HERE FOR AUDIO
New--Sapphics for Alexandra Grilikhes
NEW
(!!) Hitching
To Nirvana excerpt --OZ -- That
evening she sets out in search
of the jazz that was born in bordellos and played in the mournful and jubilant
processions that spirited the dead away to a place that is said to be better.
--"Art"
-- Adrianne
watches as the thick stream of smoke dissipates in the general dinginess of
the bathroom, into the dreariness
of their lives without Art.
--Salt and Water -- I was once a perfect rise
of sea. Salt water consumed me.
--To the Ocean --
Voices whispered: do it, do it, do it.
-- The Sirens -- She
was forty-five years old. Where had the years gone?
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