Tag: NLR poetry
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Dear Elizabeth Smart
Runner-up in the 2019 Ada Limón Autumn Poetry Contest I read in a book review that you wrote My Story with a ghost. / Days after hearing your voice, / I am haunted and frantically write you / in a pocket notebook, afraid of forgetting. Poetry by Dani DiCenzo
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Some Nights We Have the Moon
Runner-up in the 2019 Ada Limón Autumn Poetry Contest There are no swans here, just corn / and potatoes pushing past small- / town dirt. I want to be done / with want, so I tell my feet / to stalk the wheat Poetry by L. Renée
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2031
If that cross had a story, what would it be? / Copper wolves devouring my eggs, / or all my daughters raptured to nowhere? Poetry by Meg Reynolds
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in praise of the river that has flooded its birthplace.
dark bruises of waves / turn / like lathes Poetry by Brandon Thomas DiSabatino
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GHAZAL FOR A TALL BOY FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
The reporters called and asked me: Did you know him? / I was his teacher, I said many times that day. Yes, I knew him. Poetry by Martín Espada for Jim Foley, journalist executed on video by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham), August 19, 2014
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BULLETPROOF VEST
We’re the only ones we / race against, we think. We speak / in tongues. We know that family / matters most. Bang, bang. “What will / we have today?” we ask / when we serve at oily restaurants. Poetry by Colin Criss