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Poem of the DayBy Ted KooserThe gravel road rides with a slow gallopover the fields, the telephone linesstreaming behind, its billow of dustfull of the sparks of redwing blackbirds.On either side, those dear old ladies,the loosening barns, their little windowsdulled by cataracts of hay and...
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poemBy Ariana Brownwhile visiting Templo Mayor in Mexico City, I reckon:walking the same land Cortés did/walked/tried to own.in the shadow of his Cathedral,I shudder.Templo Mayor is now a museum.are there
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Archive Editor's NoteBy S.J. Fowler & Rebecca Kamen March 25, 2024
We have never tried to make the science in question less than the deeply complex thing it is, for in that complexity...
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collectionBy The Editors
Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.
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Poem GuideBy Eric WeiskottA melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
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Poem GuideBy Ange Mlinko
How the conflict of a nation was captured by a politically reluctant poet.
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Poem GuideBy Shanta Lee
Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
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poemBy David ShapiroThe trees have sex,Teach,Focus.Tohu BohuChaos in a green light.Alone again.How alone I twistat the end of thoughtwhen illness is forgotand the speakeris punched on the barkon the soft models.The old abbot looked at us and laughed.He loved electronic gadgets for...
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poemBy Lucie ThéséeHandsome, like those foam-topped tidal waves breaking high, in little crystal globes.Handsome, like the breeze that lifts a little tuft of tulle. If tulle were life.Handsome, like a frozen face, tear-tracked, when the sun hammers down.Handsome. Like fire.Handsome, like the...
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