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Concrete or Pattern Poetry

A type of poetry where the visual arrangement of text and space forms a meaningful shape or image. Read More
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  • Poem
    By Alison C. Rollins
    I am a product of my time. Time is a body that resembles a sound without a scale. Forever foreclosed...
  • Poem
    By Gabrielle Joy Lessans
    a muted longing for a being of elsewhere without a boundary or a body like a ball to throw me around...
  • Article
    By Natalie Earnhart & The Editors
    Interventionist Poet and Performer of (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual
    1 A CA Conrad copy
  • Poem
    By Tishani Doshi
    I’ll keep this brief. I remember the shock of Mr. G’s tiger-striped trunks at the Madras Gymkhana Club...
  • Poem
    By Tishani Doshi
    This far north the sun rises and sinks in the same spot. Insects announce the apocalypse and fog moves...
  • Poem
    By Marilyn Nelson
    The United Negro Improvement Association, he says, his little bloodshot eyes looking out of the dark...
  • Poem
    By Marilyn Nelson
    Our love still young, our marriage new, Robert and I felt blackness as a second vow, a spiritual seal...
  • Poem
    By Marilyn Nelson
    Long fing- ers, how signals flow up them from tip and finger- print all the way up the arm and the ...
  • Poem
    By Caroline Bird
    I surrender my weapons:Catapult Tears, Rain-Cloud Hat,Lip Zip, Brittle Coat, Taut Teethin guarded rows...
  • Poem
    By E. E. Cummings
    in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and ...
  • Poem
    By Lorna Dee Cervantes
    Cherry plums suck a week’s soak, overnight they explode into the scenery of before your touch. The curtains...
  • Poem
    By Amit Majmudar
    Every tripod-toting birderknows it nevernests on urbangirders. Even fences set itsscalded-crimsonhead...
  • Poem
    By Kamau Brathwaite
    Out of this roar of innumerable demons hot cinema tarzan sweat rolling moth ball eyes yellow teeth cries...
  • Poem
    By James Lasdun
    My stylistcalls me darling,says Hi I’m Dee, and asks what I’d like today, smiling.My hair back, I tell...
  • Poem
    By Robert Herrick
    Fame’s pillar here at last we set, Out-during marble, brass or jet; Charmed and enchanted so As to ...
  • Poem
    By Brook Emery
    I seem to wake and sleep ambiguously, to see and misconceive, to feel on the brink of something that...
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