Poem25 days after I am bornBy Remica Bingham-Rishera man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America...
ArticleT.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”By Peter O’LearyOne of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
PoemBlackbottomBy Toi DerricotteWhen relatives came from out of town,we would drive down to Blackbottom,drive slowly down the congested...
PoemSleeping BeautyBy K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi. Backstage you wear lotion laced with its chemical imitation...
PoemThe Bug WranglerHe was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
PoemEnter the DragonBy John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
Articlep1On Loneliness: To YouBy Carl PhillipsLoneliness, then, means understanding—and accepting, though some days this is only slightly easier than others—that no one knows me.
PoemGródekBy Georg TraklAt evening autumn forests drone With deadly weapons, the golden plains And the blue lakes, above which...
PoemSong of the DepartedBy Georg TraklFull of harmonies is the flight of birds. The green woods Have closed about the stiller huts at evening...
PoemXLIX. ("its a secrete")By Jos Charles its a secrete the grls speeching mye hole / inn 2 the lindens / wee go out & playe footballe / verie...
PoemStetson in RetrogradeBy Adam O. Davis1. If a house is haunted like a radio is haunted If a body is a radio of blood If a body of ghosts hums...
PoemSilent SpreadBy S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
PoemMontana PastoralBy J. V. CunninghamI am no shepherd of a child’s surmises. I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where...
Poemp1The Sky Keeps SurprisesBy Ahmad Almallahthe wound is bleeding into white the wound is threading clouds across the eye, across its view and how...
PoemFinal Section from "Eleven Eyes"By Lyn HejinianThe spoons have clattered Aren’t children little pears and observant birds I note that the green blanket...
Poemp1ChainsawBy Marie HoweThere’s always a chainsaw somewhere, the high whine of a drill, somebody building something or tearing...
PoemGerontionBy T. S. EliotHere I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was neither at the...