Joseph Harris: Was It Good for You?

Today’s share thaws a bit, it seeks a bit of sun, it’s Joseph Harris’s story “Was It Good for You?“:

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Elizabeth J. Colen: Standing Under the Pivot

This weekend’s share arrives fully formed and prescient: Elizabeth J. Colen‘s “Standing Under the Pivot.”

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Martin Porter: Dictionary, or the Scattering of the Nations

Today’s share comes at an opportune time, a time of opportunity, to consider what is a nation, the nation or nations, how they may unite or cleave irreparably, how they might speak a common tongue. Here’s Martin Porter‘s flash “Dictionary, or the Scattering of the Nations“:

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Marvin Shackelford: Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing

A whirlwind miniaturized or contained in the human form is no less than a swath of destruction waiting to happen. Spun up from the archive is Marvin Shackelford’s “Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing”:

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Devon Wootten: [What could eat her up?]

What is the best poetry? It is like a best-on-best tournament, and one may construct the very best from the limbs and organs of the best published poems of the year? Devon Wootten‘s Coincidence Machine project produces an answer, [What could eat her up?]. (He’s also behind wikipoesis.com.) Plucked from the archive:

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