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By Scott ChallenerAn introduction to the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.”
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By Willie PerdomoI’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
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By Jameson FitzpatrickWhen, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
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When, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
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I’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
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My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemBy Julian Talamantez Brolaskiit lyked to eat salmon w/ its
fingers like a bear
and then use those fingers
to clean its glasses
it cried and it looked like a raccoon I believe
it wanted to cultivate this look - PoemBy Patricia SmithGotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips,
decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.
As the jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak,
inhaling bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru... - PoemBy Natalie DiazToday my brother brought over a piece of the ark
wrapped in a white plastic grocery bag.
He set the bag on my dining table, unknotted it,
peeled it away, revealing a foot-long fracture of wood.
He took a step back and gestured toward...
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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