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  • Article
    By Samyak Shertok

    midnight murmurs of a brokenhearted nomad

    Poetry and Practice
  • Poem
    By Felicia Dorothea Hemans
    See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
    Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
    Voices that have left the earth
      …
  • Collection
    By Forrest Gander

    “Be wet with a decent happiness.”

    Cover image for "EcoPoetry and Water"
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bellAnd many a lesser bell sound through the room;And …
  • Poem
    By 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...
  • Poem
    By W. S. Merwin
    Late in May as the light lengthens
    toward summer the young goldfinches
    flutter down through the day for…
  • Poem
    By Jericho Brown
    Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thought
    Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning
    Names in heat…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I 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...
  • Poem
    By Countee Cullen
    If for a day joy masters me,
    Think not my wounds are healed;
    Far deeper than the scars you see,
    I keep the roots concealed.

    They shall bear blossoms with the fall;
    I have their word for this,
    Who tend my roots with rains of gall,
    And...
  • Poem
    By Adam O. Davis
    1.
    If a house is haunted like a radio
    is haunted         If a body is a radio
    of blood         If a body of ghosts
    hums like blood over a valley of
    bone         If blood is a...
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