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Fish Fry Daughter | Sara Ries
Sara Ries is a poet from Buffalo, N.Y., whose parents run a diner. Here’s one of her delightful…
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Leaving the Hospital | Poem by Anya Silver
If you’ve been in a hospital, and got out alive, you’re really alive. In this poem, Anya Silver,…
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Eight Ball | Poem by Claudia Emerson
At a time when a relationship is falling apart, sometimes the news of its failure doesn’t come out…
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The New Dentist | Poem by Jaimee Kuperman
Jaimee Kuperman is a poet living and working in the Washington, D.C., area, and she shares with many…
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Mr. D Shops At Fausto’s Food Palace | Poem by Candace Black
Nothing brings a poem to life more quickly than the sense of smell, and Candace Black, who lives…
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Sometimes, When the Light | Poem by Lisel Mueller
A wise friend told me that since the Age of Reason we’ve felt we had to explain everything,…
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The Art of Being | Poem by Anne Coray
Anne Coray is an Alaskan, and in this beautiful meditation on the stillness of nature she shows us…
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Two Gates | Poem by Denise Low
The persons we are when we are young are probably buried somewhere within us when we’ve grown old.…
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The Cricket in the Sump | Poem by Catherine Tufariello
Here’s a fine poem about a cricket by Catherine Tufariello, who lives in Indiana. I especially admire the…
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Believe This | Poem by Richard Levine
When we’re on all fours in a garden, planting or weeding, we’re as close to our ancient ancestors…
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Mockingbird | Poem by Judith Harris
I like birds, and poems about birds, and several years ago I co-edited an anthology of bird poems…
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Reunion | Poem by Dana Gioia
Those of us who have gone back home to attend a reunion of classmates may have felt the…
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One’s Ship Comes In | Poem by Joe Paddock
Joe Paddock is a Minnesota poet and he and I are, as we say in the Midwest, “of…
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Window Washer | Poem by Christopher Todd Matthews
I love poems that take pains to observe people at their tasks, and here’s a fine one by…
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Peach Fires | Poem by David St. John
I’ve mentioned before how much I like poems that take the time to carefully observe people at work.…
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Back from the fields | Poem by Peter Everwine
Go for a walk and part of whatever you walk through rides back on your socks. Here Peter…