By Tomás Q. Morín
In this life, there are starsand there are stunt doubles.Before I became one of those fathersobsessed...
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- By Robert DuncanThis is the way it is. We seethree ages in one: the child Jesusinnocent of Jerusalem and Rome- magically...
- By Sharon OldsAnother Grand Jury does not hand an indictment down (“I Can’t Breathe”), and for a moment it seems as...
- By Angela JacksonBefore the doctor told me I could not leave her, Not even for fifteen minutes, Twice a week I would ...
- By Terrance HayesThe rain falling on a night in mid-December, I pull to my father’s engine wondering how long I’ll remember...
- By David WagonerUnder the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper By the second string of teachers and wallflowers In the...
- By Countee CullenThe many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool ...
- By Countee CullenWherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame...
- By Lewis MacAdamsJust to say that today the female power is revealed by the blue sky flapping in the laundry on the roof...
- By Countee CullenWhat is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or...
- By Ron SillimanPutting the pox in apocalypse the pudding in the skull has a lemony taste just a little until you push...
- By Lydia Maria ChildOver the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry ...
- By W. S. Di PieroThey’re gathering now cone-head ghouls Spider-Man fly-by-nighters’ burnt-cork cheeks flailed sheets ...
- By Dan VeraOne beside another—brothers Seven diviners of what lies beyond the truths we have uncovered. One makes...
- By John BalabanAfter most of the bodies were hauled away and while the FBI and the Fire Department and NYPD were still...
- By Sandra DollerI thought a tree dying was a sign of pestilence or terror or you’d done something wrong in your life...
- By Stacy SzymaszekI saw this day coming class would end and it would be night time to attach bike lights tonight I lit...
- By Luis J. RodríguezCinco de Mayo celebrates a burning people, those whose land is starved of blood, civilizations which...
- By Alan DuganHe smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries of being scared while sleepless when he said this:...
- By Alan DuganHe had a back office in his older brother’s advertising agency and understood the human asshole. He ...