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Poetry

Leo Vanderpot

November 29, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Leo Vanderpot lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.  He dedicates his poem to Bill Read, a  teacher at Boston University, remembered with thanks for more than five decades.

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Leo Vanderpot: Untitled

November 29, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

He knows he’s good not a good cook loves it too much maybe   not always a good father butcept when back in time he gave his children a bath then he was in good heaven

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Carl Boon: Istanbul, 5:45

November 9, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

The brunettes and the bankers stroll behind me in threes, each in love with one who can’t exist, each surveying corners. It’s 5:45 and the call to prayer flares up from the Modern Mosque. The crows in the magnolia trees are calling for plunder. Boys shoot baskets in the schoolyard, and seventeen green walnuts have […]

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Matthew Kelsey

September 14, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Matthew Kelsey is from Glens Falls, NY, and works at the Chiaravalle Montessori. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and teaching fellowships from the University of Washington for their writing programs in Rome and Friday Harbor. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry […]

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Kyla Sterling: Blue Chicory

September 6, 2017 by PBQ 1 Comment

This is where we sat once, cinder blocks for back steps, trumpet vine spreading under the siding. You played so many songs on your old harmonica and I danced. When the heat went out, you combed tangles from my hair, fed me straight from the jam jar. The mail piled in the corner— old pennysavers, […]

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Laura McCullough: Maggot Therapy

September 6, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Near death, sometimes the hands curve into themselves like claws. I held my mother’s open, smoothing the fingers, trimming the wild nails. Once, years before, my husband and I awoke to a fawn caught in the family compost, a hole on its back end festering with worms, and he pinched each one out swiping his […]

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