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• Lullaby for the Grieving

  Jones, Ashley M., 1990-

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  "I question the air. The space between leaves. The sound of water." --Ashley M. Jones, "Grief Interlude"

• Parallax

  Dasbach, Julia Kolchinsky,

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  "The rhododendrons keep blooming / despite the blood." --Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, "On the 100th day of war in my birthplace"

• Transgenesis

  Poems

  Winter, Ava Nathaniel,

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  "Dresses. The fear of God. Dark rye flour. Clogs made from scraps of lumber and leather. The Torah in Hebrew and Russian. One good wool suit. A child’s necktie." --Ava Nathaniel Winter, "What the Suitcase Bearing my Family Name Might Have Contained…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gaza

  the Poem Said Its Piece

  Rabāḥ, Nāṣir

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  "The kid you raised is a man who will endure war, and taste / the jabs of tanks for the first time..." --Nasser Rabah, "Leaving the House"

• Path of Totality

  Poems

  Pollari, Niina,

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  "I am terrified all the time / I am filled with fear in the face of beautiful things / The most beautiful thing I ever saw has made me the most afraid / And the fear has never left me..." --Niina Pollari, "Megalophobia"

• Satan Says

  Olds, Sharon

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  "Once you lose someone it is never exactly / the same person who comes back.” --Sharon Olds, "Feared Drowned"

• Heaven Looks Like Us

  Palestinian Poetry

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  "Oh little light in me, don't die / even if all the galaxies of the world / close in." --Heba Abu Nada, "Not Just Passing"

• Helen of Troy, 1993

  Poems

  Zoccola, Maria, 1993-

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  “gods of birds who speak in human voices, i do not want to watch her walk through a life of small mercies and small choices.” --Maria Zoccola

• Playlist for the Apocalypse

  Poems

  Dove, Rita

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  "I didn’t ask to stand under a crown of spikes / with my book and my torch, forgotten / like a lamp left burning in the corner." --Rita Dove, "The Sunset Gates"

• The Gift of Animals

  Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection

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  "When you are gone they will read your footprints / if they still read, as they might a poem about a love--" --David Baker, "Extinction"

• Meltwater

  Poems

  Wahmanholm, Claire,

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  "In the world's rich dirt / I could have planted brambles, clovers. I could have just loved / the earth instead of inventing new ways to hurt." --Claire Wahmanholm, "You Will Soon Enter a Land Where Everything Will Try to Kill You"

• 44 Poems on Being With Each Other

  a Poetry Unbound Collection

  Ó Tuama, Padraig,

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  “You know the dead are never dead / because I saw my / mum’s mum / walking down Lewisham High Street / she was wearing purple / she’s always wearing purple..." --Kandace Siobhan Walker, “Three Mangoes, £1”

• This Is Not a Small Voice

  Poems by Black Poets

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  "A Small, Needful Fact // Is that Eric Garner worked / for some time for the Parks and Rec / Horticultural Department..." --Ross Gay, "A Small, Needful Fact"

• Mary Oliver

  Holding on to Wonder

  Frankel, Erin,

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  "In the forest she wondered about the birds, and the lilies, and the water in the stream, and about all the things that could not speak yet somehow spoke to Mary. Maybe they too felt sad sometimes. Or lonely." --Erin Frankel

• Doggerel

  Poems

  Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980-

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  “In prison, a letter is called / a kite, as if words alone can gift / a man wings.” --Reginald Dwayne Betts, "Some Joy"

• Signs, Music

  Poems

  Antrobus, Raymond,

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  "Mimi, my best memory / of a tree is the one that grew at the back / of my mother's garden, it might've been a young oak / or a sweet gum." --Raymond Antrobus

• A Cruelty Special to Our Species

  Poems

  Yoon, Emily Jungmin,

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  "What is a body in a stolen country. Or whose. What is right in / war. What is left in war. War hasn't left Korea. I have." --Emily Jungmin Yoon, "An Ordinary Misfortune"

• The Singing Word

  168 Years of Poetry From The Atlantic

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  "Bless Thee, O Lord, for the living are of the sky over me this morning. / Bless Thee, O Lord, for the companionship of night mist far above the skyscraper tops I saw when I woke once during the night." --Carl Sandburg, "Skyscraper Canticle"

• There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

  Selected Poems

  Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-1976,

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  "she who still feels / that the Earth is turning – / enviable and / vulnerable / still convinced fame is / something other than being / scattered and dissolved..." --Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen

• The Natural Order of Things

  Poems

  Kelly, Donika,

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  "I'm telling you, I was little and lost / the season I learned to be still, to pass / a piece of time with remembering—a comfort / to remember now, to make present, for a little while..." --Donika Kelly, "Tell it Short"