From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 29
- 2 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 26
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 22
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 19
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 15
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 12
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 8
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 5
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Mar 1
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 26
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 22
- 2 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 19
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 18
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 12
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 8
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 5
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Feb 1
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Jan 29
- 1 min
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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marychristinedelea
- Jan 25
- 1 min
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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