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Poems
Twice a week, I post a poem I love by another poet. Some are well-known poems, but most are poems that have been published in the last 20 years. I find many in journals, online, and in chapbooks and books I own. My tastes in poetry is eclectic--poems just have to be great--so you will find every type of poem on my blog.
At the Holocaust Museum by Alice Friman
At the Holocaust Museum December 1999 by Alice Friman Like Dante, we too are led down. The elevator that swooped us up and spewed us out,...
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Mar 29, 20232 min read
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez published in LEON Literary Review, Issue #18: Poetry,...
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Mar 26, 20231 min read
Greta by Marjorie Power
Greta by Marjorie Power —after hearing Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N., 9/23/19 She’s a lungful of cold clean air in a foul-smelling...
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Mar 22, 20231 min read
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
True Love by Robert Penn Warren In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny,...
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Mar 19, 20232 min read
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
Quarantine by Eavan Boland published in her 2001 book, Code In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a...
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Mar 15, 20231 min read
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...
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Mar 12, 20231 min read
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durha
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...
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Mar 8, 20231 min read
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...
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Mar 5, 20232 min read
What I Learned by R. Erica Doyle
What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...
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Mar 1, 20231 min read
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...
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Feb 26, 20231 min read
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...
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Feb 19, 20231 min read
February by Bill Christophersen
February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...
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Feb 18, 20231 min read
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...
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Feb 5, 20231 min read
If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border by Jeff Mock
If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...
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Feb 1, 20231 min read
About Face by Alice Fulton
About Face by Alice Fulton published in her book, Sensual Math (1995) Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I...
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Jan 29, 20231 min read
Morning Prayer with Rat King by Kaveh Akbar
Morning Prayer with Rat King by Kaveh Akbar published in Poetry, March 2018 gravity accounts for the distance between weight and mass it...
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Jan 25, 20231 min read
Daughter I am saying things to you by Amy Schmitz
Daughter I am saying things to you by Amy Schmitz published in Kestrel, Fall 2016 like sand seed storage like always have something to...
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Jan 22, 20231 min read
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