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Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021 The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and...

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white,...

Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn With a first line taken from the tv listings A man is haunted by his father's ghost. Boy meets girl...

Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers published in her book, Splitting and Binding, and in Orion Magazine Out among the wet...

the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...

Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss I cannot forget the sugar on the table. The hand that spilled it was not that of my usual father, three...

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my...

From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...

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,...

In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez published in LEON Literary Review, Issue #18: Poetry,...

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...

True Love by Robert Penn Warren In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny,...

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...

Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...

Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...

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...

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...

Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...

So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...

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...