Poetry
Poetry
“The Heart” by Arlene Naganawa
30 November 2018 on Blog, PoetryA door opened into her body, a cavern, pinpricks like electric wasps. Her fingers dimmed like fireflies drained of light. So this is someone’s work, she thought, the dimpled spider...
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Presence in Poetry
23 November 2018 on Poetry, StorystormI write poetry to get weird. I want to be the weirdest me there is and then push that marker; I want to float, magnanimous as a blimp; to pop...
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“Digging” by Douglas Cole
09 November 2018 on PoetryI am digging my way through plateau clay pounding with an iron bar and pic axe lifting shovelfuls of rattling rock and pebble earth alone out here except for Tony...
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“The Lake, the House, the Bus” by Laurinda Lind
26 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryWater no, spirit no, water in dreams, water like Lake Ontario, water like mud always spraying stones— a dream about us. In the house, lake under us, big house made...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Ada Limón
12 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryAda Limón, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize in 2006 and finalist for the National Book Award in 2015, has come out with her new collection The Carrying, this past August....
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“Revenant” by Forrest Rapier
05 October 2018 on Poetrynight before last together we made azalea-shape bite-mark ornaments on our weak thighs yesterday lacewing flies hummed shaky songs across the buzzing micro kitchen countertop scatter my cup...
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“Post Card to a White Dwarf” by Jose del Valle
21 September 2018 on PoetryThe sun sparkles on the bay. Race day. Sailboats the color of ecological catastrophe jostle at the start. A vendor sells a local clam & children shout much louder than...
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“Earthbind” by Laura Post
27 April 2018 on Blog, PoetryHe asks me casually if I ever want to get married, and I think about how I can’t even stand guided tours. A little girl at the top of the...
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“The Ice on the River” by Brookes Moody
13 April 2018 on Blog, PoetryI’m always just saying new things about waves— like how when ice forms on a river, despite the currents, ...
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“Loading Zone” by Tara Deal
23 March 2018 on Blog, PoetryThere can be only one New York morning when you discover the gingko trees lose their leaves all at once, give up, make a mess. Velvet is elsewhere and then...
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I Stare at Passing Clouds (After Tu Fu) by George Freek
09 March 2018 on Blog, PoetryI stare at passing clouds, above the quiet street. The evening is peaceful. Half drunk, I sway in the doorway. The moon lights the twilight sky. Stars glisten like leering...
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Magnetic Irony
23 February 2018 on Blog, Poetry, StorystormFuture generations may define our period style by its pervasive sincerity. Irony is what's missing from much contemporary poetry. For example, the popular political poems are earnest, if angry, and...
