A Poem for Kamau
“You took me by the hand,/ your child nearing forty…” By McDonald Dixon, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Sunday
“There’ve always been Sunday mornings like this,/ when God became young again/ and looking back you see/ that childhood was a Sunday morning.” By Kendel Hippolyte, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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For Kamau Brathwaite at 85
“From islands’ scorned syllables/ your horn lifted nations’ new tongues/ Castries to Kingston…”By John Robert Lee, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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“while your arms fill with arms / that are not yours, are covered // with shallow river water / flowing past you as moonlight…” Weekend poem, by Simon Perchik.
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Lampedusa
“…currents of meditated cruelty / pull them namelessly
into a tally/ across the only real frontier…” Poem of the Week (May 5), by Daniel Voskoboynik.
Because everyone needs a roomy place
“…a yurt would make a lighter home,/ the only real friends are in the wilderness,/ every house a prison…” Poem of the Week (April 28), by Jarkko Tontti. Translated from Finnish by Lola Rogers.
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Consider the Ocean
“I am neither ship nor ocean/ I am the thing the ocean wrecks the ship into.” Weekend poem, by Ephraim Scott Sommers.
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Vivian Maier
“Vivian, maybe the secret was in your name,/a twisted code of semantics. Like the rest of us,/ you were the food you ate, the girl and the candy/ at the movies…” Poem of the Week (April 21), by Craig Martin Getz.
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Bruno Chooses Bisexual
“Bruno is lured by their stare into the struggle—/ their unwillingness to ignore…” Weekend poem, by Charles McGregor.
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Contains Spoilers
“the things I long for are edited out of movies. maybe / they just exist, even less than perfection, like love// and rain…” Poem of the Week (April 14), by Carla Jones.
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