Poem
From the magazine:broken lyre
By Asha Futterman
my hands are still my hands
like my grandfather’s hands
are his hands and they
are on the window
attached…
like my grandfather’s hands
are his hands and they
are on the window
attached…
Audience
6th-8th grade
Showing 1-20 of 350
- Poem
From the magazine:A Children’s Story
By Paula BohinceAgain, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to… - Poem
From the magazine:War. Day 294
By Olga LivshinDecember. In Odesa,
power stations, shelled.
Your father’s friend
shivers in his apartment
crammed with … - Poem
From the magazine:Street Food
By Daniel HalpernThe redolence of rose and new road.
The attar of grass, recently cut.
The fish-whiff of anchovy.
The spinning… - Poem
From the magazine:
Look at our boots and spurs!
By Angelina SáenzNo
I don’t dance horses
I am not a mariachi
I am not a baile folklorico dancer
I am not the half-time show… - Poem
From the magazine:Four generations
By Angelina SáenzThere is a framed photograph of my grandmother
She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china… - Poem
From the magazine:You are prettier when you are quiet
By Angelina SáenzI am a feminist who loves my sport
and the machismo in charrería often gets to me
To be clear
I am not … - Poem
From the magazine:You can thank us later
By Angelina SáenzBrother charro
do you realize
that it is because of escaramuza
that you have an audience?
Our performances… - Poem
From the magazine:me llamo viento
By ire’ne lara silvathey announce us Valentina Covarrubias montada en Viento
my girl does not cower does not wave or smile… - Poem
From the magazine:rain poem
By Manny LoleyTranslated By Manny Loleyrain passed through
just now
rain
chxósh
chxósh
chxósh
chxósh
rain rained
now
rainbow
stretches
water … - Poem
From the magazine:If I Were an Ewok, My Sister Would Take Me and Name Me Sunshine
By Rowie Shondeen ShebalaWell she actually said
if you were an Ewok I would rescue you and name you Sunshine
build you a tiny… - Poem
From the magazine:star poem
By Manny LoleyTranslated By Manny Loleynight drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend… - Poem
From the magazine:
sǫ’
By Manny Loleychahóółhxeel
sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
nahookǫs bikǫ’
binaago deikaah
sǫ’ binahjį’
hane’ náás oot’ih - Poem
From the magazine:nahóółtą́
By Manny Loleyániid nahóółtą́
ániidigo
nahóółtą́ą
chxósh
chxósh
chxósh
chxósh
naanahóółtą́
k’ad
nááts… - Poem
From the magazine:As a child, I knew nothing about grief
By Rasaq Malik Gbolahanuntil the clock of my grandmother’s body
stopped working & her remains
were lowered into the earth on… - Poem
From the magazine:Instructions for Building Your First Time Machine
By T.S. LeonardDon’t. The past is overcrowded with the future
closer than you think. You blink, that’s one
eon; a yawn… - Poem
From the magazine:Changes
By Cecelia TauntonSomething will change every day.
I moved six times. I felt like I was traveling.
But something will … - Poem
From the magazine:Elementary Magic
By Allison SwensonI remember first hearing rumors
of the atom. We are all made up
of crumbs, Q told me
when we were kids.… - Poem
From the magazine:Wanderlust
By Miguel A. VegaIf, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse,
every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…
- Poem
From the magazine:Middle School Dance
By Nicole TallmanTo all the boys
who asked me
to dance and to
all the boys to whom
I said yes and to
all the steps we took…