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Cranberries and Poems: Red Popcorn of the Underworld (by Jenny Factor)
I am holed up in the kitchen at the makeshift windowseat table nearest the stove, monitoring a tiny pot of cranberries, citrus, and clove. These cranberries are even now popping their little heads, with…
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A Look Back: Poets on Thanksgiving
First, a poem: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was.…
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The Year in Review: Where Does My Body Live [by Kenji C. Liu] May 26, 2012
* Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu – Craig Santos Perez – Ching-In Chen – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – Andre Yang – Barbara Jane Reyes As someone who was raised as a man, my gender is an incredibly slippery experience to write…
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From the Archive: A Poem for Thanksgiving Week (by Laura Orem)
The holiday insanity is upon us again. But instead of stressing out that I’m not Martha Stewart, I’ve been trying to remember to breathe, and to think about what the holidays are supposed to…
