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Poetry Off the Shelf
Four poets on old stories, cultural memory, and minority languages.
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- ArticleBy Luci Tapahonso
Our language reminds us of the legacy that connects us to the past and instills that legacy in this present time.
- ArticleBy Chris Hoshnic
It isn’t the final product of a poem I’m interested in, but the way poetry can bring community together.
- ArticleBy Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, Beth Piatote & Jake Skeets
The gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.
- ArticleBy Laura Tohe
When I write in Diné bizaad the sounds come from the center of what it means to be Diné. Diné bizaad bee yashti. Diné bizaad bee hadínisht’é.
- ArticleBy Natanya Ann Pulley
We must accept a holiness in the language of space and silence.
- PoemBy Zoey YazzieDoor :[frames]: bolted by seams of
desert fleece and beaming blindfolds
dry-steamed by the musk … - ArticleBy Yasmine Shamma
Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.
- PoemBy Dorothy ParkerUnto seventy years and seven,
Hide your double birthright well—
You, that are the brat of Heaven
And … - PoemBy William ShakespeareYe elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do… - PoemBy William ShakespeareYou do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended… - PoemBy Meredith StrickerI was thinking of some of the messages Rilke will never receive: — dentist called abt your appt tomorrow…
- PoemBy Carol Ann DuffyAt childhood’s end, the houses petered out
into playing fields, the factory, allotments
kept, like mistresses… - PoemBy Ama CodjoeWhat if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand
grenade—I mean, what if after
the loaded gun that takes two hands
to fire, I lay down the splintered broom
and the steel so cold it wets
my cheek? What if I unclench the valleys
of my... - ArticleBy Daegan Miller
Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking.
- AudioPoetry Off the ShelfHelen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff in the words of people who loved them.
- PoemBy Allison SwensonI remember first hearing rumors
of the atom. We are all made up
of crumbs, Q told me
when we were kids.… - PoemBy Margarita EngleTaíno in our blood
and on our tongues
stirs, yawns, rises,
no longer lost.
We ignore old historians
who tell… - PoemBy Ada LimónEnough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower
and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
enough…