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By Wang PingAn Introduction to the folio.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn memory, oral history, and honoring elders.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn translating oral history into poetry.
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My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
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I want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
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When asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemBy Heather ChristleToday you find yourself guilty
as the rim you split
an egg against
You press charges
You spell out your name
like the letters are medals
for good conduct in a bad war
The night moves in with you
into your room
until even your sleep
is not your own
Through... - PoemBy Rita DoveI was sitting at home with my daughter who was young again
a child with a child’s wish to do things over and over
so when she named an old film even I liked
we popped in the disc and sat... - PoemBy Lee Young-juTranslated By Jae KimOnly as an old man did he hear the old saying that a beardless person neither ages nor dies. Shaving his beard with a shaky hand each morning, he discovered new dreams. If I were to be reborn,... please don’t let...
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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