November 2018 – Alison McGhee

November 24, 2018November 25, 2018

Poem of the Week, by Andrea Gibson

A few weeks ago an anonymous teen sent me the note to the right, and I wished I could put my arms around them. Three times in my own life, I’ve called a crisis hotline. Each time, I was calling because someone I loved was contemplating suicide, and I wanted to get help for them. … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Andrea Gibson

November 17, 2018November 18, 2018

Poem of the Week, by Czeslaw Milosz

Here’s the fourth-floor walkup you called home. Here’s the tiny room overlooking Joy Street where Laurel used to roll her waitressing change into paper tubes for the rent. Here’s your room, with the big saggy bed left by a previous tenant. Here’s the bathroom where you didn’t pee at night because darkness was the domain … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Czeslaw Milosz

November 10, 2018

Poem of the Week, by Anne Sexton

When he was little, my son sometimes asked me questions that seized my heart, questions like Mama, what if we’re all characters in a book, and someone is writing us right now? Where these questions came from, I don’t know. Then and now he was what I think of as an old soul. Once, when he was … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Anne Sexton

November 3, 2018

Poem of the Week, by Carl Dennis

My friend Todd is an art museum guard by day and an artist by day and night. He composes and records original songs, dives deep into pop music he orders from Japan, watches and re-watches Miyazaki films, reads and re-reads favorite novels and finds something new in them each time. Whatever draws him, he will … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Carl Dennis