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Calaveras (literally, sugar skulls,) are traditional satirical Mexican poems published on and around the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). The celebration of the day of the dead predates the independence of the countries in North America. Read More >

blind man’s conundrum

my mother and brothers, my neighbors and friends i found blind
to goodness. all preferred bounty. so like a mirror
i shut my eyes to wickedness and begged the kind
to feed and clothe me. Read More >

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky is a poetry collection in two acts about what can happen to a community when the military moves in to control them. It is a tale of how the ethics of those who love, desire, or harmlessly gossip, can be transformed into actors who rape, torture, and engage in murder. Read More >

(A video of the reading can be found at the bottom of this page)

Maria Garcia Teutsch
&
Danusha Laméris

Sunday, September 13, 2:00 p.m. via Zoom

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Playing Ping Pong with Henry Miller – an illuminating BBC podcast on how Big Sur transformed Miller. (Featuring some of your HML pals!) Henry Miller Memorial Library

Check out this podcast of Kim Addonizio interviewing a number of Henry Miller aficionados about Henry’s life in Big Sur, California. Featuring interviews with Miller’s son Tony, as well as yours truly.

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Playing Ping Pong with Henry Miller – an illuminating BBC podcast on how Big Sur transformed Miller.

JEAN ARP Read More >

Pamela Sneed asks, who will pray for us now America?

For Sandra Bland

I had just begun to relax
celebrate the marriage equality ruling Read More >

Poet Republik Ltd’s chose as its first micro-press publication,  J. Hope Stein’s  collection of poetry, Occasionally, I Remove Your Brain through your Nose. No spoiler alert, but there’s something going on in this collection that is a kind of petroglyph for the times we are living through. These poems are original, experiential and vital. Read on…. Read More >

This poem featured on Poet Republik is sampling from Mark Lamoureux’s, new collection, Horologion, just out from Poet Republik Ltd. “Three in the Afternoon,” is a sampling of this collection which at points is a gathering of hours, which the poet Jim Dunn says creates “the illusion of time in this, our time of illusions.” Here’s to illusions. And here’s to you Mark, for this fine book of poetry. To purchase this collection, please click link at the bottom or go to poetrepublik.com
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