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December 26, 2011 – January 1, 2012: Denise Mostacci Sklar and Changming Yuan

week of December 19-25, 2011

Denise Mostacci Sklar and Changming Yuan

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Denise Mostacci Sklar
uptothesky26@comcast.net

Bio (auto)

Denise Mostacci Sklar is from Hamilton Massachusetts. She is a modern dancer who has spent most of her life teaching and dancing in New York City and Boston. She is a personal trainer in the GYROTONIC method of bodywork and practices Tai Chi. Writing is new for her and she is happy to add her first publication to this bio, having her poem, “Elephant Rock” accepted for publication in Doug Holder’s column, LYRICAL, of the Somerville NEWS.

The following work is Copyright © 2011, and owned by Denise Mostacci Sklar and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.


Remembering

Apartment
on Riverside
Drive
spaceship
with windows,
Hudson River
boats
New Jersey
across, George
Washington
Bridge lit
at night-
snow
falls
hovering
swirls
in sky.

Our small
Christmas tree
imperfect
decorated,
straw hippie
angel
at top
we still have

No recycling
then, trees
thrown on
sidewalk
for trash.

We brought ours
down
to the river
each time
bare
New Years
Day
floating.

Atomic Cafe

Beatles ‘Come Together’
through speakers filling ears
sitting with laptops
eating lunch

His purple hair sprouts
from head cotton pieces
floating up

 


Changming Yuan
yuans@shaw.ca

Bio (auto)

Changming Yuan, (co-)author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) , Politics and Poetics (2009) and Three Poets (2011) as well as a 4-time Pushcart nominee, grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several monographs before moving to North America. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently works as a tutor in Vancouver and has had poetry appearing in 430 literary publications across 18 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Cortland Review, London Magazine, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Super Hightway and Poetry Salzburg Review.

The following work is Copyright © 2011, and owned by Changming Yuan and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.

Fame Check

If you google your own name
and find millions of search results
You are already as well known as John Keats

If tens of millions of results prop up
You are comparable with Bill Gates, Isaac Newton

If hundreds of millions do
You are reputed like Tiger Woods, Shakespeare, Jesus Christ

If billions do
You are in the same rank as American President in office

If trillions or even zillions do
You must be someone called Allen George Michael John Smith
That is, more famous than USA

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