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Joyce Peseroff

Petition, Joyce Peseroff’s sixth book of poems, was designated a “must read” by the Massachusetts Book Award, as was her fifth, Know Thyself. Recent poems and reviews appear in ArtsFuse, Hanging Loose, On the Seawall, MicroLit, Plume, and on her website SO I GAVE YOU QUARTZ. She directed the Creative Writing MFA program at UMass Boston in its first four years.

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By Joyce Peseroff

Ten Meter Tower

by Joyce Peseroff

How delicious and fragile we humans look,
pacing the diving platform in a bikini
or board shorts, arms and legs

Spring 2026

Ask Anyone by Ruth Lepson

by Joyce Peseroff

ASK ANYONE by Ruth Lepson, Pressed Wafer, 2016, 68pp., $12.50 When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize, some questioned whether song lyrics qualified as literature. Some suggested that the committee was expanding the definition, first by anointing journalist Svetlana Alexievich in 2015 and then with Dylan in 2016. Others were reminded that the lyric poem

Spring 2017

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