Asian American
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Levis [Levis, Larry]

THE QUILT “He had stopped believing in the goodness of the world.” —Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady I think it is all light at the end; I think ...
( Category: United States December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 1976-12-15 | Author:Lisel Mueller

Once I was blind, but now I see, he shouts at us, at the polluted sky. His face is rapt, his eyes are two locked doors. Messages May, 1970 Outside ...
( Category: American December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Lisel Mueller

FACETS When you look at a bee, give it your simple-eyed appraisal of intention, hundreds of eyes look back. One lights on the childhood scar under your lip, one counts ...
( Category: United States December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:W.S. Di Piero [DiPiero, W. S.]

The cake, after pizza, tastes so sweet and sluggish we breathe through our mouths and cool the thirst with more beer. He smiled through the song, his wife holding his ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 1968-12-15 | Author:Gary Snyder

NIGHT All the dark hours everywhere repairs and rights the hearts & tongues of men and makes the cheerful dawn— the safe place in a blanket burrow hissing in ears ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Valentine

Could we have coffee? —No, my truth, I’m still on this side. I saw you last night, again, at the bar on 57th, O faceless dancer, and I put down ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco [Blanco, Richard]

Richard Blanco was selected by President Obama to be the fifth inaugural poet in history, joining the ranks of such luminary poets as Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, and ...
( Category: United States December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Ferry

Six READING ARTHUR GOLD'S POEM “CHEST CANCER” A flash of somber red Against the Maine-drenched green, Back of the Victory Garden, As we kids crouched under the sun, Weeding. It ...
( Category: American December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-26 | Author:Louise Glück [Glück, Louise]

( Category: United States December 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Nooby Lee

Part 8: Reaching The Summit With no plan to speak of, and nothing to our name other than the clothes on our backs, Nazad and I began our journey towards ...
( Category: United States December 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Nick Flynn

Wax Father Each day the son came for more, scraping comb freshly laid, kneeling apologetic. The father had collapsed, the boy wasn’t ready, so he built a replica of the ...
( Category: United States November 29,2022 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )