The poem creates a space.
It hides in a tent in a forest.
Making its own bed it falls asleep in the dark,
wakes up under a lamp or the sun.
Billy Collins, whose new book of poems is “Horoscopes for the Dead.”
Earth donates
break in a wave train
fallout active plume cloud spills
red reactors give
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in kanji could say much more
Claudia Rankine, whose latest book of poems is “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.”
Teeny tiny poem
Teeny tiny poem/just enuf 2hold/1 xllent big word/Impluvium/open-eyed
courtyrd/collectng rain/as all poems do/ skylife, open/birds do:/ tweet
Elizabeth Alexander, whose latest book of poems is “Crave Radiance,”
Elizabeth Alexander, whose latest book of poems is “Crave Radiance,”
and who wrote and delivered a poem for the inauguration of
President Barack Obama.
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The fifth-grade teacher and her followers—
Five classes, twenty-eight in each, all hers:
One-hundred-and-forty different characters.
Robert Pinsky, whose “Selected Poems” will be published next month.
Low Pay Piecework
The fifth-grade teacher and her followers—
Five classes, twenty-eight in each, all hers:
One-hundred-and-forty different characters.
Robert Pinsky, whose “Selected Poems” will be published next month.
