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a huevo: to be aggressively seduced by an egg
ay diosito: the small god you thank because your hands exist
me hicieron ojo: my eyelashes flew one by one like a longing!
señora studies: look, a map in the dirt of your mother’s hurts
empacho: you ate cactus until you burst open like a rotten fruit...
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When I was a child, my eye was older than an oak.From the highest chair, I saw string beans move from...
Poem of The Day
We’d often
been included in
the weather, whose
changes (as in the
still, portending
darknesses of after
...
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A literary work collaged entirely from other authors’ verses or passages.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Peter O’LearyOne of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
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From the Poetry Magazine Archive
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Confessional poetry
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