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Poetry

Poem of the Week
How to Be a Real Indian
by Kenzie Allen
Claim to be Choctaw or Cherokee. Claim to be a princess too.
iPoems
How to Disappear
by Mark Wagenaar
For who can escape one’s twenties or browser history?
Poem of the Week
How to Live in an American Town
by Jennifer Chang
You are the only one who knows not to pour water on the flame.
Poem of the Week
How to Read a Poem
by Madeline Miele
My advice would be not to trust. The ocean is just the ocean until I say otherwise.
Poem of the Week
How?
by Richard Kenney
As the whorled fingerpad loves Morse, but more so. Worse.
Poem of the Week
Hugo on Harris
by Mark Jarman
He had come to weavers’ Harris to make some testament.
Poetry
Hunan Wishes
by Daniel Halpern
The wok oil ready to tremble and smoke—everything, ready.
Poetry
Hundred Year and Other Poems
by Robert Wood Lynn
You walk into your gramma’s kitchen only once for the last time.
Poem of the Week
Hunting Season
by Emily Van Kley
Each year we fail to imagine how the days will blanch, the air will harden.
Poem of the Week
Hymn for You
by Chessy Normile
May the dice throw their combinations at night. May it be June then July.
Poetry
Hyperobject
by Pimone Triplett
I only divine the cat’s location when I hear its small cough.
Poem of the Week
Hysterical Strength
by Nicole Sealey
A camper fighting off a grizzly until someone can shoot it dead.
Poem of the Week
I Am Nearly Twenty-Five
by Gino Figlio
It’s not the sun and all its colonies that miss you—it’s the frailest barriers.
Poetry Contest Winners
I Carried My Father Across the Sea
by Gbenga Adesina
He was a child. He was dead. He was the shaft of a Long-tailed Astrapia.
Narrative High School Writing Contest
I Dye Her Hair on Saturdays
by Stella Wu
My brush dissects her slick-back black hair to expose ugly white.
Poem of the Week
I Heart Your Dog’s Head
by Erin Belieu
It’s a small deposit, but I’m putting my faith in reincarnation.
Poem of the Week
I Wake a Little Earlier Each Morning
by Erin Belieu
You’re certain that they’re harmless, benign as a flock of founding fathers.
Poem of the Week
I Lost My Pen, I Lost My Keys
by Marianne Boruch
I lost my pen, I lost my keys, and my hat somewhere on a table.
Poetry
I Miss Somebody Still Alive and Other Poems
by Loisa Fenichell
On Saturdays I listen to folk music, lead a life devoted to exodus.
Poetry
I Sanitize My Hands to Teach The Tempest Again at West Point
by Matthew Carey Salyer
I’ve left a casement open disclosing the lording Hudson in its net of lead.
Poetry
I Search for Koreatown
by Megan Kim
I can only say I am here searching solo for remnants of Seoul Drive
iPoems
I Shut My Eyes & Doors in Me Fly Open
by Ben Purkert
I could untie Minnie’s silk, restitch it into places I’ve lived.
iPoems
I Too Dislike
by Kary Wayson
She sits in her wax like a candle. A woman comes, a woman goes.
Poem of the Week
I Want to Be Jeff Goldblum
by Adam Scheffler
I want my former costar Glenn Close to call me “charm personified.”
Poetry Contest Winners
I Was a Barking Dog
by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
When I was a woman, I was all reason and my reason was unjust.
Poem of the Week
I Will Meet You at the End
by Philip Metres
Take my hand, lead me by heart over the blind stepping-stones to the edge.
Poem of the Week
I Would Have a Woman as Real as Death
by Frank Stanford
I give you a real blue song the mountains hold under their foot.
Poem of the Week
If All the Birds Are Killed
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
A rider prances toward the ash, a sailor looks for meaning in unrequited hearts.
Poetry
If America Doesn’t Want You Dead
by Danez Smith
I shouldn’t have to say why the confederate flag is a symbol of hate.
Poem of the Week
If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World
by Natalie Diaz
What if Eve was an Indian & Adam was never kneaded from the earth.