United States
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

Canoeing with Alligators They won’ make any bother. Jes’ paddle down center o’ the stream. They won’ jump into yo’ boat. They only bother if you had a dog wit’ ...
( Category: United States April 26,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:KB Brookins

FOODIE, OR I MISS EVERY HOMETOWN COOKOUT Fuck the presentation, I want the food to taste good. Like chopped slop covered in barbecue sauce brisket. Like mama’s wing flings on ...
( Category: Black & African American August 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

Ten Having a family changes things. Years ago in Taos, Andre from Transylvania via New Orleans boasted he could outdrink me and we bought a quart of vodka for him, ...
( Category: United States February 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Remica Bingham-Risher [Bingham-Risher, Remica]

I’m the only thing my mother ever made. I come to this realization when I have my own children and she has chastised me again for not calling each day. ...
( Category: Black & African American February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eliza Griswold

2 We compete. We do. We race to places faster and after, judge the other’s page— huh, that’s all she got— yet offer our last Tampax, dearer than the ten ...
( Category: United States January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-09 | Author:Adam Smith

( Category: United States December 24,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Phillips

EVEN IF SLEEP AND DEATH ARE BROTHERS Two children feeding what appears to be a baby goose. Of beaten gold—gold beaten to a thinness like that of paper—a woman’s funeral ...
( Category: Black & African American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Naomi Nye

This could be you. Morning Birds Crisscrossing watery tumble of sound soothing summer drought still they find one another not sky nor another parched night can separate or silence them ...
( Category: United States October 4,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bradford Morrow [Morrow, Bradford]

Two Poems Barbara Guest BLURRED EDGE It appears a drama of exacting dimension. Anguished figure, reign of terror. Craft and above all the object within. Softness which precedes blurred edge. ...
( Category: United States May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-03 | Author:Fred Marchant

drill I will stop now this burrowing, though I would be derelict not to note points of contact between the labor to bore holes in the earth face and commands ...
( Category: United States May 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cate Marvin

Sympathy and Envy Until my friends abducted me The world was a cubicle The point where the passage runs east to west puzzles me Your world It is you and, ...
( Category: United States March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Lehman

from Tahoma Literary Review ADRIENNE SU * * * Peaches A crate of peaches straight from the farm has to be maintained, or eaten in days. Obvious, but in my ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Robert Frost

10 Did ever you feel so? I hope you never. It’s got so I don’t even know for sure Whether I am glad, sorry, or anything. There’s nothing but a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

PAULA BECKER TO CLARA WESTHOFF Paula Becker 1876–1907 Clara Westhoff 1878–1954 became friends at Worpswede, an artists’ colony near Bremen, Germany, summer 1899. In January 1900, spent a half-year together ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-07-17 | Author:Adrienne Rich [Rich, Adrienne]

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 February 24,2017 )