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poemBy Jenny Browne
is such a public display of affection, a flex even, one the lone magpie staring back from the backside of a badly shorn sheep finds suspect. I flap my arms
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poemBy Richard Siken
I crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange thing to do
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poemBy Gabriel Ramirez
I couldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for you being dead. It was time
By nature, we poets tend many unquenchable flames.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Esther Belin September 4, 2023The process of knowing how to instrument this information and motivation was the logic behind grafting myself into the Poetry Foundation.
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This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Kimiko Hahn, who won the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and who is featured in the October 2023 issue...
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poemBy Jin Eun-YoungI’m working on my poems and working withmy fingers not my head. Because my fingersare the farthest stretching things from me.Look at the tree. Like its longest branchI touch the evening’s quiet breathing. Soundsof rain. The crackling heat from other trees.
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