Monthly Archives: April 2016

National Poetry Month 2016: April 28th, Warsan Shire

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For women who are ‘difficult’ to love By Warsan Shire you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 27th, Aracelis Girmay

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Consider the Hands that Write this Letter By Aracelis Girmay after Marina Wilson Consider the hands that write this letter. Left palm pressed flat against paper, as we have done before, over my heart, in peace or reverence to the … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 26th, Jenny Johnson

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In the Dream By Jenny Johnson I was alone in a dyke bar we’d traversed before or maybe it was in a way all our dives merging together suddenly as one intergalactic composite, one glitter-spritzed black hole, one cue stick … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 25th, Li-Young Lee

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Little Father By Li-Young Lee I buried my father in the sky. Since then, the birds clean and comb him every morning and pull the blanket up to his chin every night. I buried my father underground. Since then, my … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 24th, Ogden Nash

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Old Men By Ogden Nash People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when… People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 23rd, Willy Shakes

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104) By William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 22nd, Eileen Myles

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Choke Eileen Myles Of all the ways of forgetting not turning the pilot on is not the worst The house is intact you are floating in time buckets of it streaming through the windows youth turned it up I think … Continue reading →

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