Poem of the week

- Melissa Eleftherion

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  DIAL-A-POET: Hear the poet in your coffee. Dial 415-484-7919. When you hear the greeting, press 721   Melissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. A high school dropout,...

I Learned All My Spanish in School - E. K. Keith

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  E. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs...

The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus

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Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was...

To the White Fiends - Claude McKay

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  Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating...

untitled - Bashō

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Confessions - Augustine of Hippo

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EADER ELEMENTARY - RAYAN MUSTAFA

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  Rayan Mustafa is a Palestinian American poet from California. His work explores the intersection between the personal and political spheres of life and the emergence of identity...

(from Like Nebraska) - Sophie Klahr

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  Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...

BLANK GUN - BETH BACHMANN

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Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and...

ANIMAL DOOR - CONNER HABIB

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  Conner Habib is an author, host of the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, and activist. He lives in Los Angeles. Twitter: @ConnerHabib