Poetry

  Letting Go By Stacy Barton looking back the leaving began at once the loss of you like summer grass before the season’s end your tiny form expands me still a willow of a woman you catch my breath like a breeze ...

E. Ethelbert Miller "Denial / This has nothing to do with blackness. / This has everything to do with blackness." ...

Still looking for Easter links? Check out this compilation of 65 of the sketchiest Easter bunnies . [ Buzz Feed ] April is National Poetry Month – find 30 ways to celebrate. [ Poets.org ] This University of Nebraska professor is a popul ...

Poetry is language made material. It presents us with objects and the world, yes, that is part of its materiality, but it also – and perhaps fundamentally – makes our very language into a thing, rather than sim ...

Jeanne Murray Walker Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.                                                                 —Word ...

Belle Fox-Martin We are the lay of the land— / pocked, hilled, knowing every ember / and seed imprinted on our bones. ...

A look at Poster Cred, the Seattle-based art project, Jesse Eisenberg shares his favorite memories of growing up with Jeremy Lin, "Food Rules," by Michael Pollan is born in stop animation, the new film ...

A new poem by Sarah Vanderveen... I pulled on my wetsuit quick, quick pausing to take note of a new hole under the left arm, darnit and paddled out. A new poem by Sarah Vanderveen ...

R.M. Blair While he was in jail, two policemen / came to his apartment, took / all his books, sat at his kitchen table / drinking his cof ...

A new poem by Sarah Vanderveen: "The Painting Lesson, and a Prayer" A new poem by Sarah Vanderveen The Painting Lesson, and a Prayer Two women in hats, feet ...