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Cinderella’s Plenty

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ANA MICHALOWSKY

“When small, she’d wake, hearthside, to cook and clean with courage. / But then the prince arrived: for her a princess carriage.”

September 8, 2020 Ana Michalowsky, Archived Poems, Featured Poem

Endrhymes for the Endtimes

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AMIT MAJMUDAR

“How does he square his fiddling with rhymes / with such unbearably precarious times”

August 16, 2020 Amit Majmudar, Archived Poems, Featured Poem

On Meta Warrick Fuller’s Talking Skull (1939)

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MICHAEL BROWN

“Like Job, he kneels, hands placed before him on the ground”

February 16, 2020 Archived Poems, Michael Brown

Fugue in October

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MARYANN CORBETT

“Perfect: the singers, strings, and keyboards. Perfect // Bruised sky above the tents of the squatters’ district”

October 6, 2019 Archived Poems, Maryann Corbett

Talk About Love

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LISA BARNETT

“Propagate and fornicate, / procreate and copulate: / Latin for our base desires.”

September 29, 2019 Archived Poems, Lisa Barnett

Night Fire

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MORI CREECH

“I struck the match. My child watched dead leaves burn”

January 13, 2019 Archived Poems, Mori Creech

Translating Wang Wei

ELIZABETH KLISE VON ZERNECK

“In this dark cabinet of poem: / no lanterns rise, few men reach home.”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Elizabeth Klise Von Zerneck

On a Light Lady

BRUCE BENNETT

“Not hearing, I suspect that you / again have turned to someone new”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Bennett

Vulture

BRUCE GUERNSEY
“And once again / they too are back”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce Guernsey

A Comment on the Odyssey

JOSEPH S. SALEMI

“Lotos-Eaters, Cyclopes, / Lovely Circe on her knees”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Joseph S. Salemi

Sounion

DAVID W. LANDRUM

“Here, it is said, Aegeas flung his old, / tired body to the endless breakers’ roll”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, David W. Landrum

Equivalents

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CHARLES RAFFERTY

“The moon has always fit as easily / into a puddle or the shoreless sea.”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Charles Rafferty
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