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his name is Johnny I think you’d alike him I keep picturing
you both drinking risky together god that’d be the worst
actually but any way I tell him all about you and how you
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Trudy Sugawa Hodnefield.
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Look. In the kinder
fallow of spring, the trees
grow green. Not forever green, not envious,
—Our Poet of the Week, Loisa Fenichell.
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Somewhere a bee is dancing
in total darkness, to a viewership of sixty thousand
other, comprehending bees
—Out #PoetoftheWeek, RK Fauth (@rk_fauth). This Friday 8/29, she will be a featured poet along with Safia Jama at our Friday Night Open.
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He screenshots the poem before clambering
out of the Jeep to aim at the youths throwing stones,
most of which are likely repurposed rubble from bombed buildings
—#PoetoftheWeek @YouKnowFargo reads his feature poem "An American Writes a Poem,"
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I have forged an island
atop your absence. Each day I wake
closer to sea level.
—Poet of the Week Maria Gray reads her feature poem, "Sea Level"
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You’ll take my [ voice | story | memory ]
And weave it with others
To create a loosely woven map
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Rebecca Yeong Ae Mzengi Corey.
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We talk about people like they
could be separate from us. This life vs.
that one, what is mine and what is yours.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @ElizabethSpenst
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drips on the counter. If only I didn’t
spill everything, didn’t crave sweets. This fly
would have nothing to eat. It would fly
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Jen DeGregorio. On Fri, 6/27, she will be a featured poet w/ Emerald Carter at the Friday Night Open.
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apart. a
month they
found extremely
inside.
—#PoetoftheWeek Adrian Farrell reads his feature poem from "hearsay"
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evidence of
their being
together was
that both had
time to spend
apart ...
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Aiden Farrell. Aiden's five-week online workshop “Ghost Practice: Translating Poetry” begins on June 19, and registration is open until June 12.
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drag yourself to your old home, wait a week, remind yourself
dopamine can exist in abundance in one part of the brain
and be scarce in another, ...
—#PoetoftheWeek @JordanHamel_ reads his feature poem "How to Cheat Death in a Nightclub Bathroom"
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The Bridge retweeted
think about the Kim Addonizio poem, a stall neighbour crying,
how you always imagined yourself the speaker, never the subject,
spot the gum misshapen on the mirror, a lost seahorse, watch
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @JordanHamel_
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funny how life needs death for it to happen, be compared to. Valued. But you knew this
—Our #PoetoftheWeek Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (@LaloMtzLeyva) reads his feature poem, "After the Shooting, You Have a Panic Attack in the Supermarket"
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funny how life needs death for it to happen, be compared to. Valued. But you knew this
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (@LaloMtzLeyva). This Friday, 5/30, he will be a featured poet at our Friday Night Open alongside Vaughn M. Watson.
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mr. rogers gifts me a red cardigan.
it odors like missing daddy & saltine crackers
a white man who can putty all my cracks
—#PoetoftheWeek @AnastaciaRenee5 reads their feature poem "Get Home Before the PBS Street Lights Go Out."
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so when i saw you telling me
a book lets you zoom through time & space
i became a meteorite
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @AnastaciaRenee5. This Sunday, 5/25, she'll teach a workshop at our 3rd annual Poetry Festival on constructing new forms!
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Rows and rows of gold pendants
thick as fists, gripping portraits of beloveds.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek @brittanyroger_ reads her feature poem "Ice Cam, Little Caesars Arena, February 2023"
Catch Brittany's wkshp @ our Festival next wknd (flash sale tix rn!)
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it has been night too long.
i must do the work
of resetting. presumably, i walk homeward.
—#PoetoftheWeek Shana Blatt reads their feature poem "tenor"
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crows scatter like ashes,
noiseless in that diminishing
taxonomy. let me name you
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Shana Blatt
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that at some point the
body ends & stops
beginning & stops ending
—#PoetoftheWeek @abipollokoff reads her feature poem "lilies & these eroded"
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