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Some time ago, I
was holding forth in the Cafe
Blue about wanting to do a magazine sometime that required
all its poems and/or stories to have been published somewhere
or other before. This runs counter to the rule of most journals,
online and off, that only previously unpublished work need apply.
Doug Lawson offered the space and the go-ahead, so off I went
in search of, not the Best Poetry of 2000, or the Best Poems
by Poets between Forty-five and Eighty, but for a clutch of
poems that seemed to live well together and which might have
been missed by readers who hadn't spotted them in earlier incarnations.
Some of these were
found online, some by rummaging through books on the shelves
here in the apartment, and some by browsing in stores. Finding
Bobby Byrd's poem on Phillip Whalen while browsing at Niko's
over at the corner of 6th Avenue and W. 11th Street led me to
break the tacit no-work-by-friends-or-acquaintances rule I'd
been holding to. Hell, why discriminate against *them*?
So, here they are, all republished with the permission of their
authors. The rest was mostly intuitive work for me--fitting
pieces to other pieces, listening to them mutter among themselves.
Enjoy!
Halvard
Johnson
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Pulsar
by Gene Frumkin
Poem
For My 60th Birthday
by Dick Allen
Now
That I Know What Feverfew Looks Like
by Elaine Equi
South
America
by Tom Raworth
Words
of Wisdom
by Mark Pawlak
The
Art of Poetry
by Bobby Byrd
Some
Anthropology
by Michael Heller
The
Reality Executive
by James V. Cervantes
Those
Sunday Afternoons
by Charles O. Hartman
The
News from Mars
by Wendy Battin
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