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Poetry Off the Shelf
Alina Stefanescu on ruins, fear of flying, and life in the Romanian Republic of Alabama.
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Home Life
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- PoemBy Amy WoolardWe burn in daylight but we love the dogs until they
Become stardust again. Like all dogs do, they love… - PoemBy Aaron ShurinThe gates, the gardens, the windows, the sky, the ledge of bricks, the fallen leaves, the porch where…
- PoemBy Lauren RussellHammock dumping
you onto bruised
grasses, frayed
thoughts droop
sideways, hammering
morning. Slipper-
footed… - PoemBy Kate PartridgeThe dentist is now the same
age as me, which is troubling,
mostly because of what I
have and have not done… - PoemBy Joshua BennettFor the sake of argument, let’s say
the day my father outlawed all contact
between backhand and face, … - PoemBy Stefania GomezIn the sunless hour before day I hear the man I want
to love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfKeetje Kuipers on becoming a single mother by choice, gardening topless, and leaping without looking.
- PoemBy Shara McCallumPain enters through an open window
and you say it is the wind.
It marrows into beams, gutters
walls. Still… - PoemBy Yi LiI love cherries.
The fruit, juice, jam,
blossoms, prints on a summer
dress, in a black forest cake… - PoemBy Chaelee DaltonConsider the market. Consider the gross domestic product of Korea. Call it Kimchi.
Ferment culture in… - PoemBy Sarah CarsonThe first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…