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Stories

Poem of the Week
More Tenderer
by Cate Lycurgus
Mild nights would have us out of doors—at their opening I am rapt.
Poem of the Week
Morning
by Pierluigi Cappello
I have a maple in the yard and from time to time all is distant.
Poem of the Week
Morning Mass with Dad
by Rosanne English
Salve, salve, Regina. As the song ends, he folds into the fabric seat.
Poem of the Week
Mother and Daughter
by Hayan Charara
Sometimes you weren’t a good daughter, the mother says.
Poetry
Mother of the Cane River Creoles
by Britny Cordera
Ink to paper, she is inventory, has a price tag. A piece to catalog.
Poem of the Week
Motherhood
by Cecily Parks
As our friendship declined into torture, the prairie grew hotter.
Poem of the Week
Mother’s Night
by David Wagoner
She’s coming back, her arms full of the flowers I gave her once a year.
Poem of the Week
Moving to Connecticut
by David Greenspan
The dead men don’t look like themselves or anybody else.
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Poem of the Week
Mrs. Brewster’s Second Grade Class Picture
by Stephen Dobyns
How bright and eager they appear, how ready to get started.
Poem of the Week
Ms. Range Wants to See Me in It
by Anders Carlson-Wee
Men can’t sense like that. Or won’t. Even a father don’t dare get that close.
Poem of the Week
Multivalent Elegy, Three Days After Summer Solstice
by Alex Tretbar
It doesn’t matter who he is. I don’t think about him much anymore.
Poetry Contest Winners
Muse and Other Poems
by Keith S. Wilson
through the trees, breathless, the grouse leads us steady as a rope.
Poetry
Musée des Beaux Arts
by W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
Poetry
Museum and Other Poems
by Emma Aylor
Some days it seems like enough to look in the glass for glazed relief.
Poetry Contest Winners
Muslim Girlhood
by Leila Chatti
I watched to see how the others lived, not knowing I was the Other.
Poem of the Week
Muybridge’s Horse in Motion
by Holly Mitchell
The horse is in the air, her legs withdrawn, a diamond shape.
Poetry
My Black Spell and Other Poems
by Nicholas Goodly
These days I watch the world go by and do not breathe life into it.
Poem of the Week
My Brief Careers
by Dean Young
I believe you get to see a sunset once. Death, well, I’ve lost count.
Poem of the Week
My Civil War
by Edward Wilson
Grant had a lot of buttons on that coat—when he wore it.
Poetry
My Daughter’s Daughter Is Sad
by Luisa Muradyan
My daughter is learning how much guessing is in motherhood.
Poem of the Week
My Father at Twenty-Three, on the Highway Side of an Overpass Fence
by Edgar Kunz
In all the faded retellings of that night, there’s a lot he left out.
Poem of the Week
My Father Quoting Shakespeare Late at Night
by David Tucker
Then came “the sea of trouble” as he crumpled his bank statement.
Poetry
My Father’s Ampersand
by William Fargason
I take the box against my chest like a portal to my father’s heart
Poem of the Week
My First Story
by Judith Harris
They’re still there since they never grew old. The story is never finished.
Poetry Contest Winners
My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem
by Avia Tadmor
There are parts of a man that are born again with each of his daughters.
Poetry
My Milk
by Allison Albino
I keep dripping milk until I’m sitting in a pool of it, sticky, white. I can’t move.
Poetry
My Mom Serves Tea to Her Robbers
by Naomi Shihab Nye
She was so happy they were going to save her from the city of Dallas.
Narrative High School Writing Contest
My Neighbors Make a Ghost
by Stella Lei
Even Medusa was beautiful once, before the sea, snakes, stone. Any chimera is regal if you turn a certain way. Even Medusa was beautiful.
Poem of the Week
My Only Life
by Lisa Olstein
My shadow is cast by the paleness of a certain star.
Poetry
My Opera
by Kim Addonizio
It ends with a flourish like smashing a glass in the fireplace.