Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as if I were French? Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there’ll be nothing left with which to [...]
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Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2012
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No Comments »A Bowl of Spaghetti by Kimiko Hahn
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2012
Read this poem by Kimiko Hahn from the May 2012 issue of Poetry magazine. View full post on Poetry Magazine
Posted in Poems Tags: bowl, Hahn, Kimiko, Kimiko Hahn, Poem, Poetry Magazine, Spaghetti No Comments »The Minstrel?s Grave
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2012
The Minstrel?s Grave by Frances Anne Kemble “Oh let it be where the waters are meeting, In one crystal sheet, like the summer’s sky bright! Oh let it be where the sun, when retreating, May throw the last glance of his vanishing light”… View full post on Poem of The Day
Posted in Poems Tags: Frances Anne, Glance, Grave, Kemble, Minstrel, Minstrels, Poem Of The Day, Summer Sky, Sun No Comments »Dan Emmett Writes “Dixie,” 1859 by Rachel Richardson
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2012
He started with the tune his mother had hummed in Ohio, nostalgia he’d carried for years, and by Saturday afternoon he had the words. A triumph, already; he whistled the banjo’s part. (Himself a sympathizer from the North, called copperhead, called traitor by his own kin.) Something lively, some git-up-and-git they’d wanted and [...]
Posted in Poems Tags: &ldquoDixie&rdquo, 1859, Banjo, Carnegie Mellon University, Copperhead, Copyright, Emmett, Encores, First Night, Mdash, Miss Susan, Nbsp, Ohio Nostalgia, Poem, Rachel, Rachel Richardson, Richardson, Rsquo, Saturday Afternoon, Sympathizer, Traitor, Triumph, writes No Comments »The Dream of a Fire Engine by Kimiko Hahn
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2012
Read this poem by Kimiko Hahn from the May 2012 issue of Poetry magazine. View full post on Poetry Magazine
Posted in Poems Tags: Dream, Engine, Fire, Fire Engine, Hahn, Kimiko, Kimiko Hahn, Poem, Poetry Magazine No Comments »My Daughter and Apple Pie
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2012
My Daughter and Apple Pie by Raymond Carver “She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice – cinnamon – burned into the crust”… View full post on Poem of The Day
Posted in Poems Tags: Apple, Apple Pie, Cinnamon, daughter, Few Minutes, Poem, Raymond Carver, Slits, Steam, Sugar And Spice, Sugar Spice No Comments »Blues for Alice by Clark Coolidge
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2012
When you get in on a try you never learn it back umpteen times the tenth part of a featured world in black and in back it’s roses and fostered nail bite rhyme sling slang, a song that teaches without travail of the tale, the one you longing live and singing burn It’s insane [...]
Posted in Poems Tags: Alice, blues, Bristle, Chores, Clark, Clark Coolidge, Clasp, Coolidge, Dream Blues, Flap, Gleam, Keeping Pace, Kilter, Longing, Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp, Quicks, Rhyme, Slang, Sling, Sun Drop, Tenth Part, Time Sound, Trope, Umpteen Times No Comments »The Dream of a Lacquer Box by Kimiko Hahn
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2012
Read this poem by Kimiko Hahn from the May 2012 issue of Poetry magazine. View full post on Poetry Magazine
Posted in Poems Tags: Dream, Hahn, Kimiko, Kimiko Hahn, Lacquer, Lacquer Box, Poem, Poetry Magazine No Comments »On Mother’s Day by Grace Paley
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2012
I went out walking in the old neighborhood Look! more trees on the block forget-me-nots all around them ivy lantana shining and geraniums in the window Twenty years ago it was believed that the roots of trees would insert themselves into gas lines then fall poisoned on houses and children or tap the city’s water pipes starved for nitrogen obstruct [...]
Posted in Poems Tags: Bellies, Carriages, Caution Users, Copper Pots, Farrar Straus, Giroux, Grace, Grace Paley, Hilarity, Hoboken, Hudson Street, Lantana, Mother&rsquos, Napkins, Nots, Oak Furniture, Old Neighborhood, Paley, Pregnant Mothers, Rsquo, Sewers, Transvestites, Water Pipes No Comments »Getting There by Christopher Buckley
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2012
Read this poem by Christopher Buckley from the May 2012 issue of Poetry magazine. View full post on Poetry Magazine
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