Thursday, July 23, 2026

The Kiss by Stephen Dunn

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THE KISS By Stephen Dunn She pressed her lips to mind. —a typo How many years I must have yearned for someone’s lips against mind. Pheromone...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

What Goes On by Stephen Dunn

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  What Goes On by Stephen Dunn  After the affair and the moving out, after the destructive revivifying passion, we watched her life quiet in...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Story by Stephen Dunn

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    Story by Stephen Dunn   A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel drivewa...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Stephen Dunn / Influences

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  Stephen Dunn. Photo: Andrea Dunn Stephen Dunn: Influences 2001 Poetry winner Stephen Dunn died on June 24 at the age of 82. In 2016, he wr...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Beast, Book, Body Poem by Erica Jong

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Beast, Book, Body Poem by Erica Jong I was sick of being a woman, sick of the pain, the irrelevant detail of sex, my own concavity uselessly...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

After the Earthquaker by Erica Jong

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Erica Jong /  Photo by Christian Als Berlingske AFTER THE EARTHQUAKER by Erica Jong After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Meena Kandasamy / Top 10 love poems

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View image in fullscreen Detail from the Stoclet Frieze by Gustav Klimt.  Photograph: Album/Alamy This article is more than  3 years old Top...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

‘I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree’: How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick

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‘I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree’: How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick This article is more than 3 years o...