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The One Certain Thing | Poem by Peter Cooley
If writers are both skilled and lucky, they may write something that will carry their words into the…
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Mother, Washing Dishes | Poem by Susan Meyers
Here’s a poem by Susan Meyers, of South Carolina, about the most ordinary of activities, washing the dishes,…
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78 RPM | Poetry by Jeff Daniel Marion
Tell a whiny child that she sounds like a broken record, and she’s likely to say, “What’s a…
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Music Is Time | Poetry by Jill Bialosky
Music lessons, well, maybe 80 out of every 100 of us had them, once, and a few of…
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The Coffins | Poetry by Michael Chitwood
When we hear news of a flood, that news is mostly about the living, about the survivors. But…
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Betrayal | Poem by Andrea Hollander Budy
All over this country, marriage counselors and therapists are right now speaking to couples about unspoken things. In…
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Bankruptcy Hearing | Poetry by Dana Bisignani
These days are brim full of bad news about our economy—businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs.…
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Green Pear Tree in September | Poetry by Freya Manfred
Wisconsin writer Freya Manfred is not only a fine poet but the daughter of the late Frederick Manfred,…
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Old Man Throwing a Ball | Poetry by David Baker
This marks the fourth time we’ve published a poem by David Baker, one of my favorite writers. Baker…
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Lint | Poetry by Gary Metras
Often when I dig some change out of my jeans pocket to pay somebody for something, the pennies…
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For My Wife | Poetry by Wesley McNair
A honeymoon. How often does one happen according to the dreams that preceded it? In this poem, Wesley…
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Tooth Painter | Lucille Lang poetry
What might my late parents have thought, I wonder, to know that there would one day be an…
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Not Knowing Why | Ann Struthers poetry
Animals are incapable of reason, or so we’ve been told, but we imaginative humans keep talking to our…
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The Letter From Home | poetry column
My grandfather, when in his 90s, wrote me a letter in which he listed everything he and my…
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The Other Fathers | poetry
The poet Lyn Lifshin, who divides her time between New York and Virginia, is one of the most…
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A child’s roar | poetry
One of the wonderful things about small children is the way in which they cause us to explain…