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- ArticleBy Michelle Alexander
a collaboration on ekphrastic poetry
- PoemBy Felicia Dorothea HemansSee’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
Voices that have left the earth
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- ArticleBy Yasmine Ameli
Navigating Audience, Orientalism, and Family Mythology Beyond the Binary.
- PoemBy William Butler YeatsMidnight has come and the great Christ Church bellAnd many a lesser bell sound through the room;And …
- PoemBy Karyna McGlynn& Memphis is out in Full Fang!
Skeletons skip down our pitted streets.
Whole families with matching hobo stipple
roam tragicomically through the sprawling
candy deserts: polka-dot bandanas
on sticks, flapping Chaplinesque shoes.
Unclaimed pumpkins pile high
behind razor wire. The air's thick
with caw & trouble. Our... - PoemBy Brenda HillmanHaving stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War
they had 30 leftover dolphins.
An officer… - PoemBy Jericho BrownAster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thought
Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning
Names in heat… - PoemBy Langston HughesWhen the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry—
That's the blues. When you go… - PoemBy Remica Bingham-Rishera man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America…
- ArticleBy Remica Bingham-RisherWhat do we uncover when we try to salvage history?
- PoemBy Ada LimónI pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that...
- ArticleBy Peter O’Leary
One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
