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Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Jonathan Epstein — listen to the grace notes: comments on "memorial bench. . . / she shares her chit-chat / with the pigeons" by Annie Wilson
Orense Nicod—poetry as witness: commentaries on "TWIN CITIES / NO(T)ICE" by Petra Schmidt
Sean Murphy—the tone of the piece: commentaries on "a bit of Mozart / among beeps and buzzes / of the MRI" by Tim Dwyer
Dan Campbell -- a garland of blooms commentaries on: prom queent/the short reign/of primrose
Jonathan Epstein—feeling calm and centered: commentaries on "cousins' meet-up— / getting used to being / the older generation" by Maeve O'Sullivan
Jo McInerney—a moral challenge: commentaries on "cherry petal breeze / more refugees / adrift" by Archie G. Carlos
Jonathan Epstein—the good, the bad and the ugly: commentaries on "Dad’s harmonica / blues in the key / of dust" by Edward Cody Huddleston
Violet Avery Hall—hope in her heartache: commentaries on "wishing/for grandchildren/the silence of the stars by Ann Sullivan
Dan Campbell-that's a rap: commentaries on "jazz piano / the river glitters / with gulls" by Caroline Skanne
Jonathan Epstein—the monumentality of literary allusion: commentaries on "Ides of March / snowmelt down the rainspout / floods the alley" by Chad Henry
Sudha Devi Nayak - encourages us to embrace the journey: commentaries on "from the corn maze/the laughter/of lost children by Garry Gay
Vidya Premkumar - hidden depths: commentaries on "patiently waiting/for sunlight on its flanks/undersea mountain" by Rob Barkan
Jonathan Epstein—the paucity of what remains: commentaries on "show & tell / a handful of coins / from his homeland" by Barrie Levine
Scott Mason—a reader's poem: commentaries on "turning down the sheets — / outside Perseids fall / without a sound" by kei andersen
Nathan Sidney—Bellum omnium contra omnes: commentaries on "all our wars / lost / blossom wind" by Eva Limbach
Jonathan Epstein—violence inherent in the food chain: commentaries on "marina bait shop / the ripple of faces / in a dark bucket" by Randy Brooks
Vidya Premkumar—the power of poetic brevity: commentaries on "empty bird’s nest the span of a pianist’s hand" by Richard Tindall
Marion Clarke —the heartbeat: commentaries (and discussion) of one of TEN SLOPPY HAIKU OF ORDINARY LIFE by Bruce Cohen
Joshua Gage—tapping into a long poetic history: commentaries on "rainy day -/only one umbrella stops/by the forsythia" by Tomislav Maretic