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Poem of the DayBy Richard MichelsonI.I watch them line up, ark-like, two by two, chatting quietly, andafter the teacher passes, one pushes, and the one pushed beginsthe chase. This is how the orphans marched through Warsaw in '42,I tell the behaved ones: orderly and under...
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poemBy Walt WhitmanLong, too long America,Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,And now to conceive and show to the world...
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poemBy Lorna Dee CervantesWhen summer endedthe leaves of snapdragons witheredtaking their shrill-colored mouths with them.They were still, so quiet. They wereviolet where umber now is. She hatedand she hated to seethem go. Flowersborn when the weather was good - thisshe thinks of, watching...
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collectionThe struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
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Whether it's Fathers Day or any time of year, here are poems about all types of dads.
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From the Current Issue of Poetry Magazine
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poemBy Julian RandallAn arrow does its own form of singing I like to believethis means nothing is ever too farfrom the bird that it was I tender the darkwith a hum we cannot die in a legionof...
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poemBy Kathleen OssipTo have arrived here, weighed down with fistfulsof calendar entries, unsuitablyboggle-eyed as if new—so these are mountains,there is horror, which is the subway linewhere I may lay down my creedand when will my breath stopacidulating like this?Exceed, said 27. In...
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poemBy Mark BibbinsNot long ago the Pope decreedthat unbaptized babies wouldno longer be banished to Limboand that their little souls languishingthere would be releasedImagine them getting the papal memoand rising in unison unsureof where to goexcept up twirling like colossal...
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Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
How a poem about a rural stone wall quickly became part of debates on nationalism, international borders, and immigration.
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Poem GuideBy David Biespiel
The ambassador of South American surrealism.
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Poem GuideBy Kazim Ali
The poet shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse.
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