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National Poetry Month Day 8: “The American Dream Visits While I Clean” by Julie Brooks Barbour

The American Dream Visits While I Clean It wasn’t part of me, only something I listened to, like radio music or dialogue on the evening news. I was cleaning the…

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Scared Text by Eric Baus

A metamorphosis occurs among the prose poems of Eric Baus’ collection, Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. We are the audience, the spectators, but also part of…

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A New Silence Pushes Lexicon to the Brink

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Somewhere Below the Solar Plexus of Her

What does it take for a person to kill a living thing, then a human being? Why are the truths of war silenced?

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Your Notes, Your Small Pebbles

Arlene Kim’s book details a crisis of the spirit: moving from country to country, the spirit still needs the family for support, but also needs itself to remain strong and…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Nice” by Marianne Boruch

I love a poem that understands me. Most of the time, when I’m not reading poetry to inspire my own work, I read it as a reminder to appreciate the…

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