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Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Terrance Hayes

grain the only music he’d hear? Is this why you were quiet when other poets sang of the black man’s beauty? Is this why you choked on the tonsil of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 28,2023 )
McPoems by Billeh Nickerson
epub |eng | 2010-05-20 | Author:Billeh Nickerson

Napkins Your favourite co-worker gets fired for wasting napkins, although he wasn’t really wasting them, just making snowflakes for a holiday display. Everyone agrees that it’s pretty stupid, so in ...
( Category: Poetry January 28,2023 )
What Book!? by Gary Gach
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Gach

( Category: Anthologies January 27,2023 )
The White Eyelash by Susan Kinsolving
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Susan Kinsolving

the present go? Gift-wrapping and ribbon, or are we talking now? Better than razor wire, synapses snare, catch in the cranium, and show solitary confinement on a comfy death row ...
( Category: Death January 27,2023 )
Breach by Richard Campanella
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Richard Campanella

Death of an American City, 2005 We are about to lose New Orleans. Aerial view: too much swamp. Airport empty. President Bush stood in Jackson Square and said, “There is ...
( Category: American January 27,2023 )
The Niagara River by Kay Ryan
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Kay Ryan

THIN How anything is known is so thin— a skin of ice over a pond only birds might confidently walk upon. A bird’s worth of weight or one bird-weight of ...
( Category: Contemporary January 27,2023 )
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review by Danielle Ofri
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Danielle Ofri

Psychotherapist at the Landfill Lou Lipsitz —for Bob Phillips 1— On an early morning in my seventy-first year it is a mixed thing to come to the county landfill and ...
( Category: Anthologies January 27,2023 )
So Bright and Delicate by Jane Campion
epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Jane Campion

XXXVII. I do not write this till the last, that no eye may catch it. My dearest Girl, I wish you could invent some means to make me at all ...
( Category: British January 27,2023 )
Jailbreaks by Zachariah Wells
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Zachariah Wells

Don McKay, “Stress, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure”: This is an unusual feature in the oeuvre of Don McKay, who normally eschews anything resembling set forms. This one, from ...
( Category: Poetry January 27,2023 )
The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:Wendell Berry

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. ...
( Category: Love Poems January 27,2023 )
Open Letter to Quiet Light by Francesca Lia Block
epub |eng | | Author:Francesca Lia Block

secret place this is our secret room dark lit by only one strand of christmas lights tossed on the floor lit by the chants of the woman in the white ...
( Category: Poetry January 27,2023 )
Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers
epub |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Keetje Kuipers

Last week my gynecologist showed me pictures she took of my uterus: scar tissue wisping up like signal fire smoke and in other spots black holes stretched on my flesh. ...
( Category: Death January 27,2023 )
I wouldn't have missed it : selected poems of Ogden Nash by Nash Ogden 1902-1971
pdf | | 2021-11-11 | Author:Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971

( Category: United States January 27,2023 )
High Water Mark by David Shumate
epub |eng | | Author:David Shumate [Shumate, David]

IV Country Music This is that song I was telling you about. The one about the broken heart. The one where the man loves the woman and the woman loves ...
( Category: United States January 20,2023 )
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell
epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Galway Kinnell [Kinnell, Galway]

WHO, ON EARTH A ship sits on the sea raking the water for fishes. A wave flops heavily on top of itself, defeat, and before long does it again, defeat. ...
( Category: Nature January 20,2023 )

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