Clarinda Harris is one of our featured poets in the Summer 2017 issue. She has graciously allowed us to reprint her poem here. Sorcerer’s Apprentice “I asked for water, boy; you’ve brought me beer.” —Attributed to Mrs. Siddons, ca. 1850 Here comes my man playing man-servant, bringing me a pretty wineglass full of milk. the […]
Read More…Contributed by Mike Clark, Publisher Emeritus Poetry with a spirit of its own tends to find varying human forms of expression. Emily Dickinson, a recluse, wrote her metaphorical, magical poems in an upstairs Amherst bedroom. Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive who had “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”. Walt Whitman, a news reporter, […]
Read More…Peter Marcus is one of our featured poets in the Winter 2017 issue. He has graciously allowed us to reprint his poem here. Black Light for Etheridge Knight after Terrance Hayes Count those living a locked-up life who sleep with one eye open, always open. Black is the horse running from the fires. Ka-toum Ka-toum, […]
Read More…Thank you to Publisher Emeritus, Mike Clark, for this blog post on the LPR Salon Series. If you have any interest in mythology, jazz, classical Indian dance, folklore, the Big Bang Theory, the fate of the Whooping Crane, a refugee’s escape from a war-torn country, Baroque music performed on reed instruments, the historic mission […]
Read More…The LPR staff is pleased to welcome our new poetry reader and my friend, Kyle Graber. I met Kyle my sophomore year of college, and amidst many of our similar interests, we found that poetry provided us with a common bond. Over the years, I’ve asked him to edit many of my poems, and here […]
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