Apologies for cross or even curmudgeonly postings--
but if you've had it with holly, hie away to
http://www.poems.com/
where, as Susan Schultz said of this poem on another list (quoted with
permission), "Rachel Loden channels(!) Richard Nixon's voice. What a
strange perverse and wonderful thing it is. . . ."
If you're reading this message after Saturday, December 27, click on
"Previously on Poetry Daily" or "Archives" to see the poem, which also
appears (with four running mates) in the current _Denver Quarterly_.
In the print issue: John Kinsella, Andrea Baker, David Biespiel, Peter
Cooley, K. E. Duffin, Dennis Finnell, Henry Hart, Joanna Klink, Joyelle
McSweeney, Fred Muratori, Alane Rollings, Mary Ann Samyn, Robyn Schiff,
Reginald Shepherd, D. E. Steward, David St. John, Donna Stonecipher,
Karen Volkman, Steve Almond, Thomas Fink, Benjamin Ivry, Richard
Kostelanetz, Leonard Schwartz
An end to "listless festooning,"
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Rachel Loden
http://www.thepomegranate.com/loden/hotel.html
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