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My daddy understood the richness of color and shunned my oldest sister’s whitewashed birth. Who the white child belong to? He asked in the delivery...
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Thomas Sayers Ellis locate the closest overlooked neighborhood — at its core extract all humans living underneath life’s bootheel. replace with millennials cradling postcolonial...
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Thomas Sayers Ellis chicago: city of ice-cold wind — elbow city of the rectangular block, where bigger thomas choked mary dalton...
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths Each flower a wilting sun The death of a new day is never kind Grief ain’t no song No loss is this romantic
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the June 2017 issue share some books that held their interest....
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06/09/2017: Mark Strand, Collages (2011-2014)
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05/23/2017: Reading List: May 2017
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05/16/2017: Failure’s Failure
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