(because "poetry, beauty, romance, [art], & love, these are what we stay alive for")
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The sadness by W.S. Merwin
Sunset After Rain by W.S Merwin
Stories are made of mistakes by James Galvin
Ghana Calls by W.E.B. Du Bois
My husband who is not my husband by Ed Madden
Bouyance by Rumi
Ode to a Beautiful nude by Pablo Neruda
Shaking Hands by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Twilight by Marigloria Palma
Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
Remixes with a Few Lines from Keats by Danielle Cadena Deulen
Driving to Work is a Spiritual Experience by Emily Kendal Frey
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Alone by Maya Angelou
Gate A-4 by Naomi Shibab Nye
lake-loop by Natalie Diaz
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
since feeling is first by E.E. Cummings
To Octavia By Edgar Allen Poe
Manhattan is a lenape word by Natalie Diaz
The Rainbow by Effie Waller Smith
If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich? by Phillip Whalen
Useless! Useless! By Jack Kerouac
Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Wonder by Mei-Mei Berssenbruge
Now He’s an Etching by Patricia Smith
We Two by H. D
We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson
Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences By Diane Wakoski
I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
有 識: Have Knowledge by Paisley Rekdal
A Painter’s Thoughts by John Yau
ars pasifika by Craig Santos Perez
Lines on Love's (Loss*) by Erica Hunt
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money by Tongo Eisen-Martin
the pomegranate’s decimation by Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen
We Are All God’s Poems by Philip Metres
from “The Trees Witness Everything” by Victoria Chang
from “The Book of Absence” by Alireza Roshan
In the Event Of by Shane McCrae
Self-Compassion by James Crews
Anne by CMarie Fuhrman
Jellyfish Olympics by Cristina M. R. Norcross
did-you-just-say-thang theory by Tiana Reid
Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names by Assétou Xango
Praise by Angelo Geter
Peacock Feather by Effie Lee Newsome
Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser, 1984” by Kristina Kay Robinson
If You Should Go by Countee Cullen
Afterward but not Afterword by A. Van Jordan
Nothing by Krysten Hill
Some Call It God by Jabari Asim
Untethered by Allison Joseph
Underground King by Derrick Harriell
The Puppet-Player by Angelina Weld Grimké
Match by Jason Reynolds
fleeing by Kara Jackson
The Secret of Youth by Micah Daniels
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training by Kortney Morrow
Absolute by Jacqueline Woodson
ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA by Ashley M. Jones
Vacation End by Leslie Pinckney Hill
Woman in Dub by Desiree C. Bailey
One Fire, Quenched with Another by Jeremy Michael Clark
Caretaker by Charleen McClure
In the Middle of the Burning by Canisia Lubrin
The Check In by Nandi Comer
syntax by Maureen N. McLane
Slippage, a Provocation by Sharan Strange
Give Me This by Ada Limón
Picking Flowers by Nate Marshall
The Leash by Ada Limón
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Menopause by C. Prudence Arceneaux
Do/Do not by Nisha Atalie
Throbbings by Jamil B. Holway, translated by George Dimitri Selim
Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz
pronunciations by Leora Kava
[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm] by Luther Hughes
Baby love by Courtney Love
How to Forgive by Susan Nguyen
Tendril by Jada Renee Allen
Untitled for a reason by Tara Betts
Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward Rich
Angelica Root by Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
He asks about my Kinks by Valeria Nels
If you knew by Ellen Bass
On Desire by Dujie Tahat
What the Living Do by Maria Howe
One Good Memory by Noah Arhm Choi
Kronos: Father of the year by Douglas Kearney
Curious and Counting by Arisa White
Gitanjali 60 by Rabindranath Tagore
stilettos in a rifle range by Tyrone Williams