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Poem of the DayBy Countee CullenIf for a day joy masters me,Think not my wounds are healed;Far deeper than the scars you see,I keep the roots concealed.They shall bear blossoms with the fall;I have their word for this,Who tend my roots with rains of gall,And...
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poemBy Ariana Brownwhile visiting Templo Mayor in Mexico City, I reckon:walking the same land Cortés did/walked/tried to own.in the shadow of his Cathedral,I shudder.Templo Mayor is now a museum.are there
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Archive Editor's NoteBy S.J. Fowler & Rebecca Kamen March 25, 2024
We have never tried to make the science in question less than the deeply complex thing it is, for in that complexity...
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collectionBy The Editors
Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.
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Poem GuideBy Eric WeiskottA melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
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Poem GuideBy Ange Mlinko
How the conflict of a nation was captured by a politically reluctant poet.
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Poem GuideBy Shanta Lee
Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
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poemBy Najwan DarwishAnd what did the Armenians say?An Umayyad monkspins wheat and wool above usTime is a scarecrow•That’s what the Armenians said
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poemBy Laura KasischkeI am the coward who did not pick up the phone, so as never to know.So many clocks and yardsticks dumped into an ocean.I am the ox which drew the cart full of urgent messages straight into the river, emerging none the wiser on the opposite side, never looking back at all those floating envelopes and postcards, the wet ashes of some loved one’s screams.
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poemBy Yona HarveyShe’s got a hundred & two temperature, delivery room nurses said. You’regonna live, though — long enough to know you’re goingto go as quickly as you came, gonna make your mother swear by you, going toshake your Bible with red-tipped nails before...
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