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The Long Road to Teatime by Anna Jackson
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Anna Jackson [Jackson, Anna]

I feed Rufy her meat and call it her breakfast, then she’s off, our lawn for a moment dressed in a black fur stole. Rhyming with Lisa Elizabeth Bishop was ...
( Category: British October 10,2022 )
NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt
epub |eng | 2019-08-21 | Author:Billy-Ray Belcourt

Ars Poetica In an essay called “Is There Any Poetic Writing?,” Roland Barthes argues that words do not merely “reproduce the depth and singularity of an individual experience.” For him, ...
( Category: Native American October 10,2022 )
My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems by Amber Dawn
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Amber Dawn

posters appeared in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 1998. I told them that it was a trick, not the police, who designed and distributed those posters. I told them in 1998 ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Poetry October 10,2022 )
The Woman Who Lives Without Money by Rebecca Baggett
epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Rebecca Baggett

I know exactly what Grandma would think of this. I know how she hung her washing, Monday mornings early, every piece just so, grouped by purpose, color, size, down the ...
( Category: Women Authors October 10,2022 )
Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves
epub |eng | 2022-02-11 | Author:Roger Reeves

ODE TO PABLO NERUDA’S “ODE TO A LEMON” “Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight,” Me touching the “barbarous gold” with my mouth— “The breast and nipple.” To fall ...
( Category: Black & African American October 10,2022 )
Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Eduardo C. Corral [Corral, Eduardo C.]

Border Patrol Agent Summer is a puta. I park beneath branches, crank up the AC in the jeep. I hate the rearview mirror. It makes me look like my father. ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 10,2022 )
Guidebooks for the Dead by Cynthia Cruz
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Cruz [Cruz, Cynthia]

DURAS (POVERTY) “The link with poverty is there in the man’s hat, too, for money has got to be brought in, got to be brought in somehow,” M.D., The Lover. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American October 10,2022 )
Canopy by Linda Gregerson
epub |eng | 2022-01-19 | Author:Linda Gregerson

the world dropped out from under us and no one, not the on-calls with their CAT scans, not the sovereign souls who monitor the twilit room where newborns come to ...
( Category: Nature October 10,2022 )
Feel Your Way Through by Kelsea Ballerini
epub |eng | 2021-11-16 | Author:Kelsea Ballerini [Ballerini, Kelsea]

Role Model … i was twenty years old backstage at a show a mother in passing says “hey, you should know my daughter is young now but as she grows ...
( Category: Love Poems October 10,2022 )
My Book of the Dead by Ana Castillo
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Ana Castillo [Castillo, Ana]

III. Modigliani We learn of the exhibit on an ad in the subway. He’s never been to the Jewish Museum. (Something yet undiscovered by the native New Yorker.) At the ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 10,2022 )
Through a Small Ghost by Chelsea Dingman
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Chelsea Dingman

(I REFUSE TO PRAY) That’s a lie. But Jesus, I don’t know you or your father. My father & daughter are dead & I am not equal to this anger. ...
( Category: United States October 10,2022 )
Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze
epub |eng | 2022-03-09 | Author:Gillian Sze

* * * Part of sitting inside the moon is not reading. My grandmother laughed when I asked why. The answer was obvious: girls didn’t learn to read back then. ...
( Category: Canadian October 10,2022 )
Pluviophile by Yusuf Saadi
epub |eng | 2020-04-18 | Author:Yusuf Saadi

Tenzing Norgay, Everest Why the top of heaven like walking ocean floor? Too much beauty this world. Wind beckoning you to sing. Don’t open your mouth: this is the song ...
( Category: Canadian October 10,2022 )
Dark. Sweet. by Linda Hogan
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Hogan [Hogan, Linda]

Emergence I trust what all they say that a world was made by songs, dreams, and in our own world, the spin of another day, that a woman god emerged ...
( Category: Native American October 10,2022 )
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void by Jackie Wang
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Jackie Wang

Many suns revolve in the void: to all that is dark they speak with their light—to me they are silent. Oh, this is the enmity of the light against what ...
( Category: Asian American October 10,2022 )

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