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Not Even God -- poetry by Amelia Lenz
I thought it would be more difficult, sharing my soul with you, and yet I told you things I had never told anyone, not even God. How...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
All-American Boyhood -- Eric Pak
On the first day of kindergarten, I wore my Yankees jersey ‘cause Eomma said I could be an all-American boy. In the classroom, scathing...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Sailing in Alaska -- poetry by Leela Sriram
And I saw a whale, Eggshell white shined with Petroleum. I wondered if the Blubber on hus bulging head Acted as a window, where he could...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Beauty -- poetry by Julia Dun Rappaport
Beauty is a Trick meant to Distract. A Sly Cat Slinking into an alley, Waiting for a Fool's attraction to be Lured. Social construct...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
worry & me -- poetry by Amy Feng
sometimes i eat away my worries yet i see it on my face. fingers knotted in my hair, butterfly kisses on my chin. it gropes me through my...
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- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
Camphor Trees -- poetry by Barrett Ahn
Flecks of melanin speckle her skin She hates them She hates how if they took a pen and linked them like a connect-a-dot they could draw a...
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- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
genesis in three parts -- poetry by Hanna Wang
i. the book of life the musty scroll weighted with each stroke of each ancestor lost during the Taiping Rebellion no one remembers their...
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- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
Baobab trunk of a metaphorical tree -- poetry by Xiao Gan
Sitting in the hawker center and talking German in our own tongue: ‘mein’ and ‘mian’ were the strangest pair of twins. We would then fly...
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- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
The return -- poetry by Amanda Draznin
I lose myself to the leaves, And I am forced to ask myself, Do I really want to go back? Do I really want to go back to you So you can...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
Tremble -- poetry by Natasha Bredle
Perched on the church pew, you are a discordance of color in a sea of black and white, but you are disguised. Notes of the intonating...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 1 min
Topographic Pupa -- poetry by Hazel Fry
I have started to peel. My bone marrow liquefying with my words, my breasts. And my fetus has adopted me again, forgiven me Melted us...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 1 min
i see and remember the sampaguita -- poetry by Christyn Refuerzo
my finger points to the description on the page. the island sun painting the skin an amber, gold-spun silk. flat nose. dark eyes with...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 1 min
prayer is glassiness is touch -- poetry by Lynn Kong
There was a crack between the cushion of the pew and its wooden back, so naturally the hand of a little boy emerged from that sacred...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 1 min
Outside My Window -- poetry by Junwoo Park
gray clouds dangled from the dark Seoul sky and pinched the peaks of the Namsan mountain. Wind galloped across the city, thrusted by the...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
tempest -- poetry by Abby Bacall
the howling of the storm against my window startles me awake from a nightmare the room is sinister to my disoriented mind lightning...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
Anyone Who Tells You Differently Works at the Motel -- poetry by A.E. Brown
The thing about this land is that it never gives you up, people whisper Whether you’re a five second stranger in the Shell station Or...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
Library Dumplings -- poetry by Sriya Bandyopadhyay
First, place a teaspoon of the filling inside the dumpling. Make sure the filling is firm and not crumbling. Gently fold the dough over...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
do you remember -- poetry by Jeannie Kim
lying together in the dark, soft bellies full of ignorant joy and your mother’s seaweed soup, the noodles we stole from cabinets crawled...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
Ocean -- poetry by Gracie Yaconelli
Great and deep carrier of whale bones I can nearly touch the surface foaming with unkempt rage Breaking mountains into ragged rays, black...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
Valedictorian -- poetry by Carla Lin
Class of 2021, good afternoon. I was tasked today with writing an uplifting speech. (Which is to say: I was told to pour twelve years...
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