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Posted on June 25, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Ginny Lowe Connors

It is impossible to be a woman, it is impossible to be a woman: a mantra I chant to myself at some point almost every day. This mantra is usually comforting, in a weird way, because it reminds me I didn’t make this suffocating, cruel, abusive system we live in, nor am I alone in … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ginny Lowe Connors

Posted on June 18, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Ada Limon

The other day I recaulked my bathtub. Razored out the repulsive old caulk, chipped and dug, alcoholed and bleached. Cut the tip off the tube of new caulk but the caulk gun didn’t work and I couldn’t squeeze it out of the tube. So I razored open the tube, spooned the caulk into a little … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ada Limon

Posted on June 11, 2022

Poem of the Week, by James Laughlin

Most of the time you don’t know, in the moment itself, the moments that will return to you for the rest of your life. The look on your daughter’s face that day, the way his hand felt when he held yours on the train. You don’t know when a moment will be the last time … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by James Laughlin

Posted on June 4, 2022June 4, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Joshua Poteat

This poem awes me every time I read it. It floats me up above the earth and outside of time and noise and sensation while thousands of years of humans and our endless struggles against ourselves and the planet play themselves out below. We cut down our forests to make ships on the seas, the … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Joshua Poteat

Posted on May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

(early) Poem of the Week, by Grant Clauser

It was surprisingly easy to get, someone who never should have been able to buy a gun once mused to me, a sentence that still turns my body to ice. Last week at a Moth live show I sat in the front row the way I always do and watched warily as one of the … Continue reading (early) Poem of the Week, by Grant Clauser

Posted on May 21, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Eileen Sheehan

This quote is from my novel All Rivers Flow to the Sea. It pops up here and there around the world, on Instagram pages and Pinterest boards, translated into various languages. It’s taken on a life of its own, one I couldn’t have predicted. But I do remember writing these words, how the sentences spun … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Eileen Sheehan

Posted on May 14, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Muriel Rukeyser

Yesterday I opened a can of tomatoes, squished them through my fingers to break them up, added them to the soup, and suddenly pictured the long line of people who made this possible. The invisible humans who planted the seeds, watched over the growing plants, harvested the tomatoes, hauled them to the processing plant, trucked … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Muriel Rukeyser

Posted on May 7, 2022May 7, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Sara Teasdale

The other night I dreamed I saw a girl in a treehouse, reading. A girl in a hay fort, reading. A girl in her room, reading about worlds she didn’t live in, worlds that weren’t hers but maybe someday could be. All the girls were me. All were alone, none were lonely. None needed someone … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Sara Teasdale

Posted on April 30, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Jim Moore

When someone signs up for a workshop they often say something like Alison, I need you to be hard on me. Don’t sugarcoat anything. I just tilt my head and smile. When I was young I sat through lots of tense workshops in which a few lukewarm-nice things were said and then the “real” critique … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Jim Moore

Posted on April 23, 2022

Poem of the Week, by Anne Carson

I once had a hideous job traveling to various colleges for short stints teaching Speed Reading (useless), Study Skills (mostly useless), and Mnemonics (useless unless memorizing long random numbers is your thing). The job paid almost nothing so I camped in state parks and scooped up extra packages of crackers, butter, mayonnaise, and marmalade at … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Anne Carson

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