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  • Poem
    By D. H. Lawrence
    The Last Lesson
    When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
    How long have they tugged the leash…
  • Poem
    By Zach Czaia
    I'm sorry it wasn't till the end of the year
    that I asked you to write about yourselves. You filled pages…
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I

    I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
    A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
    The children learn to cipher and to sing,
    To study reading-books and history,
    To cut and sew, be neat in everything
    In the best modern way—the children's eyes
    In momentary...
  • Poem
    By Lev Rubinstein
    Translated By Tatiana Tulchinsky & Philip Metres
    1
    Well, what on earth is there to say? 
    2
    He knows something, but won’t tell. 
    3
    Who knows, maybe you’re …
  • Poem
    By Cornelius Eady
    I’m here
                 to tell you 
                                 an old story. 
                                 This
    Appears to be
                     my work.
                                    I live
                                    in the world,
    Walk
             the streets…
  • Poem
    By Kevin Prufer
    The brutality of those two men
                                                     who broke into her apartment
    and murdered her boyfriend,
           ...
  • Poem

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    Stunt Double

    By Tomás Q. Morín
    In this life, there are stars
    and there are stunt doubles.

    Before I became one of those fathers
    obsessed with memorizing his lines,
    making peace with the Big Director
    in the sky who doesn’t like ad libs,
    before all that, I was the star
    of my own...
  • Poem
    By Solmaz Sharif
    Everywhere we went, I went
    in pigtails
    no one could see—

    ribbon curled
    by a scissor’s sharp edge,
    the bumping our cars

    undertook when hitting
    those strips
    along the interstate

    meant to shake us
    awake. Everywhere we went
    horses bucking

    their riders off,
    holstered pistols
    or two Frenchies

    dancing in black and white
    in a torn-apart
    living...
  • Poem
    By Jim Daniels
    The strongest boy in our high school
    on the edge of Detroit did not play
    sports—he would’ve had to cut
    his long blond Samson hair
    and put away his switchblade
    and stop smoking dope.

    The gone-to-seed coaches who taught
    gym class hated him for the beauty
    they could...
  • Poem
    By George Moses Horton
    What summons do I hear?
    The morning peal, departure’s knell;
    My eyes let fall a friendly tear,
    And bid this place farewell.

    Attending servants come,
    The carriage wheels like thunders roar,
    To bear the pensive seniors home,
    Here to be seen no more.

    Pass one more transient night,
    The...
  • Poem
    By Lorine Niedecker
    Nothing worth noting
    except an Andromeda
    with quadrangular shoots—
                the boots
    of the people

    wet inside: they must swim
    to church thru the floods
    or be taxed—the blossoms
                from the bosoms
    of the leaves


    *


    Fog-thick morning—
    I see only
    where I now walk. I carry
                my clarity
    with me.


    *


    Hear
    where her snow-grave is
    the You
                ah you

    of...
  • Poem

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    Polish, Math

    By Krystyna Dąbrowska
    Translated By Karen Kovacik
    Prove that a person
    is / is not
    the smithy of his fate.
    Topic of an assigned essay
    I wrote for my brother.
    He did math homework for me,
    the smithy of my fate
    in the hard sciences.
    And I forged for him
    a C in Polish class.
    A difficult...
  • Poem

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    Polski, matematyka

    By Krystyna Dąbrowska
    Udowodnij, że człowiek
    jest / nie jest
    kowalem własnego losu.
    Temat jednej ze szkolnych rozprawek,
    które pisałam za brata.
    On robił za mnie matmę.
    Był kowalem mojego losu
    w zakresie nauk ścisłych.
    Ja wykuwałam dla niego
    dostateczny z polaka.
    Trudna sztuka: napisać najwyżej
    na cztery mniej, nie wzbudzić podejrzeń.
    On też musiał...
  • Poem
    By Anne Carson
    Eventually Geryon learned to write.

                    ____

    His mother's friend Maria gave him a beautiful notebook from Japan
    with a fluorescent cover.

    On the cover Geryon wrote Autobiography. Inside he set down the facts.
     
        Total Facts Known About Geryon.

        Geryon was a monster everything about him was red....
  • Poem
    By L.A. Johnson
    The book from the archive
    whispers with handwriting. A gold pen shines
    the name of every man,
    his every hand that closed it shut.
    If girls ever read, they were crossed
    out. The gilded slashes still burn
    the wounded. In the right environment, they say,
    every cell...
  • Poem

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    Love Song for Ayumi

    By Marianne Chan
    Ayumi never spoke in class, never responded to anyone who talked to her, and I tried talking to her once, no reply, but I loved her fleecy hair, her pants too short, not in fashion, ahead of her time in...
  • Poem
    By Michaella Batten
    i.

    i am sitting in sunday school
    in a handsewn pink dress and white lace tights

    i am putting my hand down when we
    learn about david and jonathan

    i am not asking if  king david was bi
    i am taking communion

    i am bowing my head...
  • Poem
    By Vievee Francis
    I never remember the knuckles, though
    his hand was bare, though their hands were bare.
    I remember the impressions left on this skin, the
    wilting and the welting. I don't remember the sound,
    not one smack. I remember the falls, myself falling
    to the floor...
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