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Cole, the lone poet in the faculty, read from a poem, "40 Days and 40 Nights," in which he told the audience of his experience getting an HIV test. The poem did not reveal the test's result...
...Grolier keeps up the live poets clubtradition with visiting bards reading their worksand a free "Phone-a-Poem" service that letscallers hear a work read by its author...
...times, this broad canvas tends to obscure the nuances of O'Hara's art. Gooch provides a detailed account of the party, argument or museum exhibit which inspired a particular poem, but usually offers little analysis of the aesthetic or linguistic concerns the poem explores. In some ways, this approach befits a poet who compared his poems to unmade telephone calls, but the overall effect sometimes privileges O'Hara's role as social butterfly over that of poet...
...BIMBO SHRINEHEADS--A Rape Poem...
April last saw Tyler six months ago, when the court ruled he could visit only if she were away. She wrote a poem, called "A Child in the Middle," which includes the lines, "The child we see will suffer forever/ Because of the bonds they force him to sever/ Today we pray that God is with us/ And corrects this wrong and painful injustice." Yet even as she speaks of injustice, April struggles with self-imposed guilt: "I have blamed myself for a long time. A part of me knows I'm not guilty; another part feels...