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Which of my Selves Do you wish to Speak to? by Shiv K Kumar
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Shiv K Kumar [Kumar K. Shiv]

An Indian Mother’s Advice to Her Daughter before Marriage Giving up all your hoardings before dying may not be entirely painful for the first bleeding that splutters like oil on ...
( Category: Anthologies January 17,2023 )
Sand Opera by Philip Metres
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Metres

in / the middle of something / a building we did not build & this is the air of ozone & benzene / that quickens the blood / clarifies the ...
( Category: United States January 17,2023 )
Amulet by Jason Bayani
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Bayani

MAGKAMPO I. The hornet’s nest was a muddy heart pulsing on the end of a long brush field, a trench lullaby I still loved at ten, before I learned how ...
( Category: Asian American January 17,2023 )
Hoard by Fleur Adcock
epub |eng | | Author:Fleur Adcock

# # ‘It ate the food it ne’er had eat’ – biscuit-worms given it by the mariners, until you edited them out. This was no spontaneous effusion, say what they ...
( Category: Poetry January 17,2023 )
Invisible Gifts by Maw Shein Win
epub |eng | | Author:Maw Shein Win

The Misfortunes of Guan Yin i. an oyster, still, in brackish waters sound of fallen blankets, di sotto in su three-chambered heart pumps transparent blood the misfortunes of Guan Yin ...
( Category: Poetry January 17,2023 )
Refugia by Kyce Bello
epub |eng | | Author:Kyce Bello [Bello, Kyce]

Dowsing Driving from one shady place to the next takes all day, and if it seems we get along I will tell you the frenzy of locoweed blown flat against ...
( Category: Nature January 17,2023 )
The Golden Shovel Anthology by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins’s latest collection is Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). He is the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 ...
( Category: Black & African American January 17,2023 )
The Sky Watched by Linda LeGarde Grover
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Linda LeGarde Grover [Grover, Linda LeGarde]

III Anishinaabewi The Refugees To the dirging of “The Way We Were” sung by some sweet girl nobody knows six pallbearers two in sweatshirts with faded logos three in dress ...
( Category: Native American January 17,2023 )
Madwoman by Shara McCallum
epub |eng | 2017-08-21 | Author:Shara McCallum

10b. But, more importantly, she’s worried that, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ve likely figured out she’s confused about many things. For example: math, God, the hegemony of ice cream ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American January 17,2023 )
The Smell of Good Mud by Lauren Zuniga
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Zuniga

HOW TO STAY CELIBATE Write lots of poems about sex. Hang them in your closet like skinny jeans. Fantasize about the moment you can finally slip into them. Go on ...
( Category: Black & African American January 17,2023 )
Jonahwhale by Ranjit Hoskote
epub |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:Ranjit Hoskote [Hoskote, Ranjit]

III ARCHIPELAGO Philip Guston, in (Pretty Much) His Own Words A Triptych 1. Lecture The hell with art, I said, and went through the mirror. You couldn’t catch me for ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
The Puritan by William Shakespeare--Apocryphal (Illustrated) by William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:William Shakespeare (Apocryphal) [SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]

PYE. A few friends here: — pray, is the Gentleman your master within? SERVANT. Yes, is your business to him? PYE. Aye, he knows it, when he see’s me: I ...
( Category: British January 17,2023 )
Scald by Denise Duhamel
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Duhamel [Duhamel, Denise]

PORN POEM (WITH ANDREA DWORKIN) goldfish porn/applesauce porn/graphic pornographic traffic/ Bono porn/popcorn porn/forlorn porn/aurora borealis porn/ orchid porn/grilled Portobello porn. . .pornography as social control, a way of saying publicly ...
( Category: American January 17,2023 )
The Republics by Nathalie Handal
epub |eng | | Author:Nathalie Handal [Handal, Nathalie]

Portrait of Stillness He tricked the boiled water to stay still. He painted the room florescent green and added a rug he found, damaged but a cool blue. There is ...
( Category: Asian American January 17,2023 )
Girl after Girl after Girl by Nicole Cooley
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Nicole Cooley

The daughters in their beds, row upon row of white, like a book’s blank pages. The daughters quarantined. I pour and pour as if water could make grief small. As ...
( Category: American January 17,2023 )

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