poetry
Tell me Grandfatherdid you ever try to scrub outyour dark Mediterranean skin your Camelsoriginal Napolitano tongue
My sister doesn’t do sad.She tried it on a few times, different styles, different sizes— nothing quite fit. Either too loudor too dark, too tight or too baggy, she’d say.
It was that summer19 years old I lived alonefevered with independenceefficiency apartment on Summit Avenuescratch cushions pull-out couchGoodwill dishes my boyfriend and I
Jessi Peterson reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest.
Kathleen Dale shares a reading of her award-winning poetry from a number of Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contests.
Karen Loeb reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas poetry contests.
Poet Nicholas Gulig reads his award-winning work from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest.
By age three everything’s in place.There’s a closet for storing languagewith all the nouns and verbs on hooks and hangersknowing their places, who comes first
I rummaged around in words all day,changing this one, discarding that one,snipping, pruning, and adding, a gardenerworking in a field of meaning flowers.
In Copper Yearning, poet Kimberly Blaeser fills the pages with light, lore, and love.
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