December 2011
37 posts
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“I bought some string cheese today that expires
on your birthday and thought to...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, April 6
November 2011
41 posts
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“You know that things become stories about other things. Everyone I used to love...”
– Lauren Ireland, from The Lil Wayne Letters: July 18th 2010
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“when it’s behind my knees
you’d have to fall to the
floor, lower your whole...”
– Lyn Lifshin, Rose
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“You don’t know it yet but what you’ll miss
is the books, heavy...”
– Dorianne Laux, excerpt from Books
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“So this is winter—-
and what remains of the world
now that autumn has...”
– Laura Lush, Winter
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“We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
White clouds refused to...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, “At a Certain Age”
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“We want ‘poems that kill.’
Assassin poems, poems that shoot
guns. Poems that...”
– Amiri Baraka
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“I am part of the ancient tradition of going away. The art of leaving...”
– David Shumate, Vagabond
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“9
I broke your heart.
Now barefoot I tread
on shards.
17
...”
– Vera Pavlova, If There Is Something to Desire, 9, 17, 18 (via yesyes)
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“Once there was this poem that began with a long title and a rather obvious...”
– Peter Davis, Poem Addressing People Who Like Narrative Poems Involving Epiphanies and Cute Stuff Presented in a Mildly Surrealistic Way
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“How tiny I’d have to be, how
crushable, like a snail or sow bug.
And what a...”
– Megan Hudgins, Why I’d Live in a Terrarium
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“Driving out of town, I see him crossing
the Brooks Pharmacy parking lot, and...”
– Marie Howe, Separation
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“Let’s kiss. Let refrain do what it does. From touching,
how skin withstands...”
– Kelli Anne Noftle, Seatbelts Off
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“How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer...”
– Derek Mahon, Everything Is Going To Be All Right (via yesyes)
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“Or, if you prefer, bite my earlobe.
Cut your name, a mariner’s tattoo
into the...”
– Joshua Rivkin, Offering
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“Put a few words together prettily and it’s possible
to fall in love.
Move your...”
– Missy-Marie Montgomery, Arrangement
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“I have nothing holy to say.
I paint his face with ashes
from my cigarettes,...”
– Sara Tracey, And After This
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“Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are...”
– Rebecca Wadlinger, Everybody Has Hands, Almost
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“Something miraculous springs
from the next sentence, but already
you’d skimmed...”
– Noah Eli Gordon, A Theory of the Novel
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“If I didn’t think it’d make me appear crazy still,
I’d apologize to you for...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, After Reading Old Unrequited Love Poems
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“Tuesday and I can’t stop fidgeting.
Can’t stop the boy in the blue shirt
from...”
– Kristy Bowen, worst case scenario
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“I have no siblings.
Meteors are not dangerous.
I love to gamble.
I eat only...”
– Karen Schubert, I’ve Been Lying
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“You open small windows for love
when you care
and someone else means more to...”
– Estrella Avenue, Miguel Murphy
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“I spend all day in my office, reading a poem
by Stevens, pretending I wrote...”
– Mary Ruefle, Perfect Reader
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“What the mouth sings, the soul must learn to forgive.
A rat’s as moral as a...”
– Sam Hamill, What the Water Knows
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“You will be out with friends
when the news of her existence
will be...”
– Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem
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“You sit on the porch swirling
your wine. Red. Tomorrow, there’ll be an ache
in...”
– Anna Journey, Alarm
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“That summer night I was an unturned field
you came to with your spade and...”
– Susan Elbe, Poem Without Us as We
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“What I want to say to you
is not what I want to say,
rather a half-truth I’ve...”
– Tyler Smith, What I Want to Say
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“Just pretend my writing is like somebody else’s
What things are important...”
– Matthew Rohrer, Second Poem for Theodore
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“I don’t remember the words of men that talk
I don’t remember the words of men...”
– Dorothea Lasky, I Don’t Remember the Talk of Men
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“Even our names sound delicious:
Pandora, Delilah, Bathsheba, Lola, Gilda
They...”
– Femme Fatale by Jeannine Hall Gailey
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“There was no one to tell, so it settled
in the lines of the house, in...”
– After the Affair by Claudia Emerson
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“Cold front blasts a train through
the bedroom, one long roar
above late talk...”
– The Cry Bone’s Connected to the Why Bone by Jenny Browne
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“There was a sea in my marriage.
And air. I sat in the middle
In a tiny house...”
– El Mar by Tracy K. Smith
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“My dictionary lists fourteen entries
for the verb quit, enough for a sonnet
on...”
– Rita Mae Reese, Smite, Smitten
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“If time were tellable, we wouldn’t keep asking.
Our faces would stop...”
– Magic Turns to Math and Back by Brenda Shaughnessy
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“I avoid speaking your name in conversation,
throwing it to the air as if it...”
– Tania De Rozario, A Hundred Ways To Say Your Name (via yesyes)
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“Everywhere people are mad for miracles.
They search their coffee cups, dunk...”
– The Religion of Birds by Megan O’Reilly Green 