Browsing Category Poems

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  Combing the Long Branch Beach, I Lose My Life in the Debris

  I feel trapped in my old life / Like a hermit crab that won’t abandon its shell

  By Gregg G. Brown
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  Book Burning

  So much in a face: / the upholstery of / being human.

  By Richard Fox
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  NIGHT STORY

  She thinks about swans, the woman reading, / and a tall girl with tangled hair...

  By Katharyn Howd Machan
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  Two Poems

  Pitiful humans compelled / by some wrinkled force / to figure who they might be...

  By Eric Helms
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  Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

  A poem to remember one of Marxist humanism's most brilliant voices.

  By Todd Gitlin
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  Poem

  “what are you doing?”

  By Nicole Hospital-Medina
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  the chinese are trying to reach me

  a small watercolor paints itself on the lowest point of my coffee spoon...

  By Nicole Basta
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  We Won’t Be Blue Always

  I want to tell you natural facts. Sister / Rosetta, full-throated / at Wilbraham Road.

  By Sam Ross
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  Chapter 3: Vespers Sung Quietly, With Mossy Tongue

  The body can process and possess the dark

  By Joshua Daniel Edwin
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  Butcher Boy

  Beside the other blighted / gods in the waiting room, / pale and creaturely, / I anticipate.

  By Sam Ross
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  Elegy in Which The War Is Not Much With Us

  I don’t think much / about the war, / been so busy, you know, / reading and writing, / tasting all these new / kinds of beer.

  By Joshua Daniel Edwin
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  The Moth: an Alter-Dream-Ego

  I made a Mt. out of milkweed. // I drink virgin Cranberry Redbull / on the rocks.

  By Gabriel Kruis