Poetry
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National Poetry Month Day 22: “The Great Loves of Our Lives” by Julie Enszer
The Great Loves of Our Lives Begin with the body desire manifests itself in the body: the flutter of the heart the nervous shake of a hand the dilation of the pupils hardening of nipples thickening of mucus within the…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: “War With Computers” by Jill McDonough
War with Computers “We don’t make war with computers.” —Captain Kirk in Star Trek, “A Taste of Armageddon,” 1966 Now we hover at 5000 feet. It’s not a fair fight, but IEDs aren’t fair, either. We watch day and night.…
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National Poetry Month Day 20: “Google Search: ‘Julie Marie Wade’” by Julie Marie Wade
Google Search: “Julie Marie Wade” I am dead in Mississippi— dead & Catholic. A cheerleading coach who passed suddenly on Wednesday night from “causes unknown.” In Oxford, they mourn with a funeral mass, send flowers to the family that survives…
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National Poetry Month Day 19: “Astronomy of Fishes & Emily Dickinson (1986)” by Adrian Matejka
Astronomy of Fishes & Emily Dickinson (1986) One eye squeezed like a bag phone between shoulder & ear. Another eye stuck in a paper towel tube like it’s a telescope & the whole country sky is as recyclable & sparse…
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Vow by Kristina Marie Darling
Lisa Cheby reviews Vow by Kristina Marie Darling and Music for another life by Darling and Max Avi Kaplan today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 18: “My Brother” by Carmen Gimenez Smith
My Brother My brother _is__ a savior who can torpedo through privilege with an artistic stun gun he’s a tempest saturating the city He makes a scar in the earth_ draws out an admixture of folklore and animus_ plus a…
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Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill
Wesley Rothman reviews Sean Hill’s Dangerous Goods today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 17: “The Mother In This Poem Is Me or You or Your Mother” by Wendy Chin-Tanner
The Mother In This Poem Is Me or You or Your Mother mother is a falling star a bead of sweat of blood of bread our daily bread on which we fed the thread of life the trouble and strife…
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National Poetry Month Day 16: “The electric body” by Matthew Siegel
The electric body changes like a sky bleeding peach, gray feathers and smoke – – a body…
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: “Death Tractates” by Brenda Hillman
The poet does what poets do: reactivates words, makes odd associations, connects things that do not ordinarily belong together in order to create deeper meaning.
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National Poetry Month Day 15: “Exercises in Breathing” by Kimberly Southwick
exercises in breathing I. knowing the rules is not enough. when it snows, it doesn’t always mean it. when it snows, sometimes it snows for the museums and sometimes it snows for the papers and sometimes it snows for only…
