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J.T. Barbarese

J.T. Barbarese‘s last book of poems is True Does Nothing. Forthcoming later this year is After Prévert, a translation of selected poems from Jacques Prévert’s Paroles.

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Whirlybird & Poets

    This whirlybird

  • The Only Critic by J.T. Barbarese

    J.T. Barbarese makes the trenchant claim in his essay “The Only Critic” that memory itself serves as the  “only critic”…

    Issue #120 August 2021

  • No Selfies For Mary & Pater Noster

    In the mausoleum shadow, eye-mopping mother, O Mary,

  • DIEU! QU’IL LA FAIT & ON THE RIVERLINE

    Would it be cheating

  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed

  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning

  • En Route

    All over wherever we are the waves are making

  • Halloween

    No gazette ran the story,