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Maxine Kumin

Issue August 2011

Elegy Beginning With Half a Line From Ben Johnson

Dry, bald, and sere my old college roommate dead of cancer keeps walking into my midnights where … More »

Poetry: Maxine Kumin, 'The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views'

Poetry: Maxine Kumin, 'The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views'

Hear Pulitzer Prize-winning poet read her work, originally published in the February 1992 'Atlantic'… More »

Issue May 2009

Winter’s Tale

Even from my study at the back of the house I can hear an orange drop upstairs, one of the last to grow … More »

Issue April 2007

Perspective

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Issue January 2005

The Cohort

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The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views

Hear Maxine Kumin read her poem "The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views"… More »

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