Poetry Off the Shelf

My Heart and Its Borders

 Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.

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My Awesome Stoma

April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.

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• 15 días

Working-Class Superheroes

Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable...

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• 29 días

All the Shiny Knives

Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

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• 1 mes

Let Light Form

Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic. 

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• 2 meses

Stay in Character

Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father's ashes.

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• 2 meses

Instructions for Divorce

Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.

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• 3 meses

Make Art for Me

Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.

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• 3 meses

Poets We Lost in 2023

Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and...

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• 4 meses

The Utopian Business

Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the...

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• 4 meses

Cease and Desist

Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.

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• 5 meses

Falling Off the Stairs

Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James...

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• 5 meses

Ghost Sister

Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga.

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• 6 meses

Living in And Times

 Sahar Muradi on cyclical time, leather butterflies, and saying goodbye to her father.

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• 6 meses

Pen Pals

Sean Cole on loneliness, fear of aging, and what poems can do.

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• 7 meses

Notes From the Bathhouse

Eric Sneathen on queer utopia, bad writing, and San Francisco in the ’70s.

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• 7 meses

The Magic Section

Irène Mathieu on pediatrics, suburbs without a TV, and our body's unknown terrain.

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• 7 meses

My Totally Normal Crisis

Natalie Shapero on Wheel of Fortune, babysitting for her landlord, and pretending not to grieve.

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• 8 meses

The Eldest Daughter

Rosanna Young Oh on her parents’ grocery store, leaving poetry, and the duties of the firstborn. 

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• 8 meses

Invisible Hands

Airea D. Matthews on self-interest, starry skies, and her parents’ fateful wedding day.

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• 9 meses