Poem of the week

We built this self on the sea - 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,...

Juba for the Teaspoon

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    Ayodele Nzinga is a multi-talented West Coast-based art visionary, who in the tradition of the Black Arts Continuum, uses performance as a method of inter-intra-group communication. ...

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...

Incubators of the Damned - James Cagney

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  James Cagney was born in Oakland, California, 1968. He was named after his father, a retired forklift mechanic. His mother, Juanita, worked as a beautician and teaching...

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...

Song of a Man Who Has Come Through - D.H. Lawrence

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Confessions - Augustine of Hippo

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POETRY - Marianne Moore

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HEATHER HAS TWO LEATHER DADDIES - D. A. POWELL

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D. A. Powell Professor University of San Francisco D.A. Powell’s books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the...