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Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca [Baca, Jimmy Santiago]

I Ask Myself, Should I Cry? Or Laugh? I am like a glossy green leaf, sticking out in midnight moon, waxy drum-skin the moon pounds with wind…. Guilt itches my ...
( Category: Contemporary November 29,2022 )
About Time by Robert Nichols
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Robert Nichols [Robert Nichols]

Monkey Bar Children Several years ago, as one who has stayed much of the course of the cyclical patterns that have been the decades of Carol Riehl, I was blessed ...
( Category: Poetry November 29,2022 )
Dread by Ai
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Ai

TRUE LOVE I absorb you through my skin, then exhale you like a breath held too long. I inhale again, air scented like cloves, oranges and musk, by the candles ...
( Category: Black & African American November 29,2022 )
Brain Camp by Charles Harper Webb
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Harper Webb [Webb, Charles Harper]

THE CAT’S MEOW For I will consider my cat . . . —Christopher Smart Hank plucks our window screen, and moans, “My paws are frozen. Let me in before I ...
( Category: American November 29,2022 )
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

GRANDMOTHERS 1. Mary Gravely Jones We had no petnames, no diminutives for you, always the formal guest under my father’s roof: you were “Grandmother Jones” and you visited rarely. I ...
( Category: United States November 29,2022 )
AnOther E.E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:E. E. Cummings

1. THE GARDEN OF EDEN . . . before the dawn of history . . . CHAPTER I The king took off his hat and looked at it. Instantly an ...
( Category: United States November 29,2022 )
Between the Tides by Steve K. Bertrand
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Steve K. Bertrand [Bertrand, Steve K.]

Because she has no servants – little work gets done around the house. Heron fishing knee-deep in a tide-pool – when do you sleep? Ice around the edge of pond ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku November 29,2022 )
The State of the Art by David Lehman
epub |eng | | Author:David Lehman [Lehman, David]

Lyn Hejinian and I met at a poetry conference in Copenhagen in August 2001. Our Danish hosts had hoped that she and I would come to blows on a panel ...
( Category: Anthologies November 29,2022 )
Hope is a Traveler by Susan Frybort
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Susan Frybort [Frybort, Susan]

Now calm and undaunted I feel, even in my windstorm. How the truth, like gusts, draws near to latch hold of my deepest rumblings, urging me to live my bold ...
( Category: United States November 29,2022 )
Wet Reckless by Cassandra Dallett
epub |eng | | Author:Cassandra Dallett

Drunk School 2011 I did graduate nursing school with a cast on my arm, a fat lip, and a black eye. I never got my nursing license but I made ...
( Category: Women Authors November 29,2022 )
This World by Teddy Macker
epub |eng | | Author:Teddy Macker

And my father, his hair is not white yet. Halo of Dust St. Francis awoke one night with dew on his nose. After the barbarians leave, lifting their hellish siege, ...
( Category: Nature November 29,2022 )
The Voices Project 2015 by Various
epub |eng | | Author:Various

NIGHT SHIFT CAITLIN RICHARDSON SAM, an 18-year-old girl, wearing a soccer uniform and socks, stands on stage. A sports bag is on the floor beside her. There are three identically ...
( Category: Poetry November 29,2022 )
Lifesaving Poems by Anthony Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Anthony Wilson [Anthony Wilson]

Morning The gentleness of secretaries in the morning is something to behold. When they are arriving, fluttering through the office and settling to their desks. They are cheery when exchanging ...
( Category: Anthologies November 29,2022 )
Gifts with No Giver by Nirmala
pdf | | | Author:Nirmala

( Category: Religious & Inspirational November 29,2022 )
A Symmetry by Ari Banias
epub |eng | 2021-09-03 | Author:Ari Banias

if no amount of “moving through the world with love” when even armies think themselves beautiful or so you are told if all the daily errands drown it out does ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Poetry November 29,2022 )

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