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African American Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes

The Hour of Our Belief

Rattle / January 28, 2010

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/SlechtaBelief.mp3″] I want to know who cried for the toy I found out back this afternoon. Was it the […]

African American Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes

The Girls On Josephine Street

Rattle / January 21, 2010

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/McEwenGirls.mp3″] Josephine Street is notorious. Everybody says it’s the street where the fast girls hang, so when the bus

African American Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes

Ars Poetica

Rattle / December 19, 2009

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OcasioPoetica.mp3″] They laughed when I asked for pancetta, those grocery store clerks. I don’t care. It’s better to be

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Elevator

Rattle / December 17, 2009

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KozmaElevator.mp3″] Similarly, when the writer Leonid Plyushch was confined to a psychiatric hospital, and his wife asked what symptoms

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What the Dead Tell Us About Charon, Ferryman of the Dead

Rattle / December 14, 2009

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OrtlerCharon.mp3″] Charon is in a hurry, if you can imagine it, revving the engine of his outboard motor with

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Home Visit: Jenny

Rattle / December 9, 2009

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/PerrineJenny.mp3″] When I arrived, she had been alone with the body for three weeks: her mother a puddle on