For La Llorona
“come when the rains/ will not stain your/ lily-white shroud// where the sun/ will not freeze/ your blood…” Weekend poem, by David Ishaya Osu.
Read More“come when the rains/ will not stain your/ lily-white shroud// where the sun/ will not freeze/ your blood…” Weekend poem, by David Ishaya Osu.
Read More“Waits for a tug at the bait:/ a book with blank pages strung/ from the hook of a question mark.” Weekend poem, by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
Read More“It diminishes you,/ Amina, so// To sell your splendour/ In the name of charity…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Reilly.
Read More“my breasts offend my father,/ more so than my opinions…” Poem of the Week (April 1st), by Hira A.
Read More” Meanwhile, as he’s saying this, I can’t help but notice the goatee/ Eerily sprouting around his mouth. His teeth are as white as the/ Angels that betrayed him…” Weekend poem, by Jordan Blum.
Read More“Green buffers green, all of yesterday/ converges/ into thickly arching swatches./ Just out of sight a late despair…” Weekend poem, by Frank C. Praeger.
Read More“The one I liked best/ was the house with the tree/ that had been peeled/ like a banana/ by that tornado…” Poem of the Week (March 18) by Iris Mahan.
Read More“the music began like a baby/ small faces (delicate fruit sounds)/ a terrible noise in the back room…” Weekend poem, by Mary Kasimor.
Read More“She burst into my room dancing, humming,/ a force of nature, her dark skin gleaming,/ cleaving me with her beauty’s pulse.” Poem of the Week (March 4), by Shanta Acharya.
Read More“she twirls a sable brush/ in one hand/ and reaches for the next card…” Weekend poem, by Charles F. Thielman.
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