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Music Poems

Poems and Essays:

Brag: Karl Carter

Chopin in Exile; Playing Brahms’ Intermezzo in A Major: Carol Jennings

Flamenco: Alexis Soto (translated by Allyson Lima)

For The Freddies (And Curtis Mayfield): Bernardine (Dine)Watson

Godmother; Sheet Music; Microelectronic Sonnet: Terence Patrick Winch.

Great music: Dmitry Blizniuk

Interludes at Union Station; Colony Collapse Disorder: Raga Ayyagari.

Je suis Paris, Never Haiti: Luz Stella Mejía

Marching On; Sophia Naz.

Offbounce: Jules Desroches

Père Lachaise Cemetery, 1991: William Notter

Selektion (1943): Michael H. Levin

Sonny Boy Williamson I: Clifford Bernier

The arc of the rainbow has only one arrow: Kirk Greenway

The Blue Years; When The Sky Is Upside Down: E. Ethelbert Miller

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