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By Alexis Pauline GumbsTo engage the timeful queerness of Cheryl Clarke’s impact is to enter a portal.
- PoemBy Eleni Sikelianos & Courtney StephensDownload the descriptive transcript Asklepius: the god of medicine.
Asklepius had a daughter who was… - PoemBy Raymond AntrobusMy phone memory is full
of canvases I have cried in front of—
circles, holes—
Shadows on water.
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My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
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I want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
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When asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
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- PoemBy Kyle Carrero Lopeztalked montclairian growin’ up in jerz: chirp yerp in a dark park,
hear it called back: you good to … - PoemBy Chanda FeldmanA shine to the bark, silver leaves aflicker
and the wound that made the basketball hoop:
a bicycle’s… - PoemBy bruno daríoI swept my house and found another. In every corner was another smaller corner, which the dust mask …
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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