Category: poetry

  • “first writing since” by Suheir Hammad

    Think of it as an antidote to jingoistic propoganda masquerading as grief and remembrance that we’ll be bombarded with today.

  • Neruda meme!

    Begun by Sylvia, then continued here and here and here and here. And now here, and next with you if you choose to post a poem by Pablo Neruda, with English translation, on your blog. It was hard to choose just one, but I chose this one because, despite my love of poetry, it’s one…

  • Green Memory

    Green Memory (1951) Langston Hughes A wonderful time–the War: when money rolled in and blood rolled out. But blood was far away from here– Money was near.

  • Who Said It Was Simple

    I’m a bit behind on the blogging and probably won’t catch up until next week. But I just stumbled upon this brilliant poem by Audre Lorde, one of the few by her that I haven’t read before. It reminded me of the recent conflicts that I’ve witnessed between certain white feminist bloggers and women of…