Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs
Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs (published in The Anthology of Women Poets, 1973, edited by Pamela Victorine,...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 211 min
Poem for My Love by June Jordan
Poem for My Love by June Jordan (published in the 2005 collection, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan) How do we...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 181 min
Above and Below: Creative Prompt
Maybe it's because I posted a poem about submarine warfare. Or maybe because I always long for the ocean. It could be because I just...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 181 min
Life on a Killer Submarine by Jimmy Carter
Life on a Killer Submarine by President Jimmy Carter (published in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1, 1992) I had a warm, sequestered feeling...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 141 min
Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ode to the Maggot By Yusef Komunyakaa (Published in his 2021 book, Every Day Mojo Songs of Earth; Farrah, Straus and Giroux) Brother of...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 111 min
Comfort Sounds: Prompt
"The Saturday Afternoon Blues" is one of my favorite (maybe even my favorite) Wanda Coleman poems, in large part because of the sounds in...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 111 min
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman (published in her book, Imagoes, 1983, Black Sparrow Press) Can kill you can fade your life...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 71 min
The Lion by Conrad Aiken
The Lion by Conrad Aiken (published in his book Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, 1965, Atheneum, drawings by Milton Glaser) The lion...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 42 min
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 41 min
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You: Prompt
If you'd like to hear the song that goes along with today's prompt title (The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"), click here....
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marychristinedelea
Jan 311 min
Art Thief by Neal Bowers
Art Thief by Neal Bowers (published in his 1997 book, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiaris, W.W. Norton) All art defines itself...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 281 min
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson (published in her 1996 book, The Woman Who Died in Her...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 281 min
Growing Up: Prompt
Linda Gregerson's wonderful poem, "With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath," is today's poem on my blog. It is a...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 241 min
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi (published in The Loch Raven Review, Winter 2009) We passed into the city like sterile vessels...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 212 min
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger (published in her 2022 book, Earthwork, published by The Poetry Box Press) Love is...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 212 min
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Creative Prompt
Kristin Berger's poem posted today here on this blog--which you should go and read now!--starts with the sentence "Love is truth."...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 171 min
Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba
Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba for Anthony Bourdain (published in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 6, 2018) This neural mesh, the coral brain...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 142 min
You Oughta Be in Pictures!: Creative Prompt
If you head over to today's blog poem, you will see I included a photo I took of Maya Angelou and Margaret Walker Alexander. Maya Angelou...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 141 min
The Struggle Staggers Us by Margaret Walker Alexander
The Struggle Staggers Us by Margaret Walker Alexander (Originally published in Poetry, 1938) Our birth and death are easy hours, like...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 101 min
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood (published in Zone 3, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2020) Who has the whip-hand...
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