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	<description>No Poem Is the Only Poem. No Story Is the Only Story. No Kings.</description>
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		<title>no  one else to tell&#8230;lol</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Haritou]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[throwing out my brother’s autograph book from grammar school]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Poems Written Before the Executioner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Kahn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swan Song

to tears, I am tragically bored
the spines creased, the birds
alone in their forests whistle
sweet little songs to warn the others:
this is my spot, my tree, my world
you’d better stay away.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I Write</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Kahn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I write with the tips of my fingers, extended through each digit from crackling knuckle, out from the wrist and down from the elbow, the shoulder, the neck and then the rotting brain, the brain, the mysterious box of rain that I can’t explain further.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Email on Wildlife in Queens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Haritou]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One night I opened the back door and saw a possum wandering through my yard in a relaxed manner.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>August in Fewer Words; Transatlantic Telephone; Today&#8217;s Weather; Alice and Rebecca</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ava Schultz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[the day before they came back, shrouded
in an untouchable truancy like martyrs
suddenly sitting up on the battlefield
somebody said the word lesbian: that was 
a word we all knew but had never
thought to say, before. “let’s
talk about that,” the new teacher said.
let’s not, i thought.
now I sit next to them in my dreams, 

under the shaft of light, glowing like it used to.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Heavenly Visit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nidhi Srivastava Asthana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘I'm creating a pile that can reach heaven,’ explained Sanju.

‘Why?’ asked Chhotu as excitement gripped him.

‘I'll climb right to the top,’ said Sanju ‘and meet God.’

‘Meet Bhagwan!’ repeated Chhotu clapping his hands. Then he paused. ‘Why?’ asked Chhotu.

‘So that I can ask Him to make you less foolish,’ said Sanju feeling happy.]]></description>
		
		
		
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