A little zine published by Ugly Ducking Press called 6×6 showcases 6 pages of work from 6 poets in issue. And I liked these smiley poems from the last issue, which is beautifully designed and letter pressed — and held together only by a rubber band:

… It’s all ways
the same — on some level
the smile is a smile. & on
some other, a subtle mark
eting tool.

That’s an excerpt from “Decontextualized Recombinant” by Douglas Rothschild. Here’s part of Lori Shine’s “Small Pairings”:

… I was not so spurned I couldn’t smile, in fact

that was all I could do, split my face.

Happy smiling, everyone –

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