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Family Poem after “The Idea of Ancestry” by Etheridge Knight   My... Read more →

Murder Your Darlings Ya don't have to knock too many people off in poetry. Truer words... Read more →

Blessing in Fire - a Villanelle for Public Education Dry earth, sparse rain, so many... Read more →

Threatened Women Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, remember her? How about Francine Hughes?... Read more →

Often the search within a poem’s blood and flesh happens slowly. I encourage... Read more →

Kay Tipsord’s  poem “The Affects of History” begins with the great concern of... Read more →

I kept coming back to Scott Laudati’s remarkable poem, “the santa fe trail.” The... Read more →

“C(h)ord,” by Carlos Gómez deals with the past haunting one’s moves through the... Read more →

“Dreamer” flattened me. Its deft use of language intrigued me, and its powerful... Read more →