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A New Poet by Linda Pastan (published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and here) Finding a new poet is like finding a new...
marychristinedelea
Jul 19, 20231 min read
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer (published in the anthology, Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012) The time...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 16, 20231 min read
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 12, 20231 min read
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit (Poetry 180, Library of Congress website) A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 9, 20231 min read
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St.Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 5, 20232 min read
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia (published in the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 2, 20231 min read
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 28, 20231 min read
Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney
Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 6 You hid yourselves so well, invisible ones,...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 25, 20231 min read
Eurydice by Ocean Vuong
Eurydice by Ocean Vuong published in The Nation (January 28, 2014) It’s more like the sound a doe makes when the arrowhead replaces the...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Pride by Diana Goetsch
Pride by Diana Goetsch from In America (2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection) https://www.rattle.com/pride-by-diana-goetsch/ for Paula...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 18, 20231 min read
Untitled by Marilyn Hacker
Untitled by Marilyn Hacker page 121 of her book, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons W.W. Norton and Company, 1986 You did say,...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 14, 20231 min read
As Planned by Frank O'Hara
As Planned by Frank O'Hara published in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen After the first glass of vodka you can...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 11, 20231 min read
Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay
Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay published in The/tEmz/Review, Issue 22 I stitch whimsy-careful scenes for people who don’t...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 7, 20231 min read
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips posted in Literary Hub, 2022 Maybe there’s no need for us to go anywhere more far than...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 4, 20231 min read
Margaret's Moon by Jackie Kay
Margaret’s Moon by Jackie Kay After she died, I swear the sky Had the most beautiful of all sunsets, A blush of pink, then red, a glass...
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marychristinedelea
May 31, 20231 min read
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's...
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marychristinedelea
May 28, 20231 min read
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Section 52)
from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 52 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...
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marychristinedelea
May 24, 20231 min read
One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy
One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...
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marychristinedelea
May 21, 20231 min read
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...
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marychristinedelea
May 17, 20231 min read
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...
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