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Stephen Sproull And they await, across the Changes and the spiraling dead, our Black revival, our Black vinegar, our hands, and our hot blood. — Gwendolyn Brooks I...
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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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A Lowcountry marsh trembles with the blood of an African Who refused to climb out of the salt and mud of...
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths We fix you maternally in the mind, orient you in a case of “tut-tut,” “there there,” and “you’re young yet,” but...
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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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The editors discuss Mahogany L. Browne's "Coco(nut)" and "Marigold" from the June 2017 issue of Poetry.
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