
Poetry@Tech, Detainee Allies, and Poetry International are delighted to share the results of the Dignity Not Detention Prize. When we began this project, we had no idea how widely it…
Co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Detainee Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky My Nation My nation has no color, my nation has no border My nation has people with a deportation order…
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“Ha”
“Getting Older”
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“Fine”
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“Fine”
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“Sam, Returns”
Co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Detainee Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky Untitled (Am I an Immigrant) Am I an immigrant or someone seeking justice Am I an immigrant or…
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“Trane’s Ride”
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“It’s Like This—”
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“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond my front door”
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“For Hamlet”
“In Possibility”
Trances I. Automatic pilot: I come to and wonder how I got to Elizabeth Street, half way home. I shrink my focus till my attention is on the gear shift…
T.S. Eliot at One Hundred and Seven This is the voice of the sandstorm, the voice of the unplayed hearts. These are the endless children rolled over and over at…
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“Lac de Nom Perdu”
“Lost Love”
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“Windy City”
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“Not For You”
“The First French Kiss”
Co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Outside Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky plans Every time I say ‘yes’ I return feel fingers in a battlefield divvying land on my arms and…
Letter of Recommendation Please say something really good, no, great about yourself. I would but I am watching a porno movie and have no time to write. The woman astride…
Mengele He had the charm of a Chinese emperor and loved to mingle with his victims and stood, invincible but somewhat mincingly, ready to divide them, mongrel from mongrel, his…
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“Never Mind”
“Copernicus”
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“Manners/Rwanda”
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“Spell to Be Said Upon Departure”
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“[Once she had a book]”
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“[He told stories the way you peel a fruit]”
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“Standard Checklist for Amateur Mystics”
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“Standard Checklist for Amateur Mystics”
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“Billions Served”
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“Oh Nigeria!”
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“The Spirit Cellar”
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“The Miscarriage”
“Dog”
Co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Outside Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky What Welcome Feels Like I would wash you with the softest words I know. Maybe whalebelly or azucena….
One Reason I Like Opera In movies, you can tell the heroine because she is blonder and thinner than her sidekick. The villainess is darkest. If a woman is fat,…
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“The Tall, Upheaving One”
“One Ritual I’ve been Asked to Do”
“The Swan in the Deck of Fortunes”
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“Poem Begun on Mother’s Day”
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“Prison Guards Silhouetted Against the Sky”
“On the Meadow”
“Zaza at Midnight”
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“Prison Guards Silhouetted Against the Sky”
The Fallen Angel One more tithe to the altar of seductions: a rose tattoo on her rotund rump, and for that she’s lifted her dress, tucks a round of bills…
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“Reincarnation”
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“Fruits of the World”
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“And a Winter Evening Azrael’s Shadow Darkens the Garden”
“The Final Cause is not Power but Consciousness,
Says Anaxagoras”
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“The Codfish”
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“The Codfish”
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“Knot Me”
“The Woodchuck”
“Casino Night”
Three Poems I. In New Jersey, a couple pulled a man from his car, shot him, and locked him in a box to die. They’d had a plan, but their…
Poetry@Tech, Detainee Allies, and Poetry International are delighted to share the results of the Dignity Not Detention Prize. When we began this project, we had no idea how widely it…
Ars Domestica The key to this life is surprise. Don’t say my whole life is spent trying to reunite socks. Say instead, surprise! Here is Eleanor’s white cotton undershirt….
Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability in early 2018 (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails,…
CREATION MYTH CREATION MYTH In the beginning there was no way to say in the beginning.There was only the ah! of those with lice and itches who were…
Ellen Doré Watson is the author is five poetry books, including pray me stay eager, published in 2018. She is also a well-known translator, most notably from the Portuguese of…
I love how poems of the spirit insist on what is perennial in us, beyond the immediate social and political contexts we find ourselves in. As Kwame Dawes writes in…
David Baker was born in Maine in 1954 and spent his childhood in Missouri. He received PhD from the University of Utah and has won fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of…
Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry—including Half-Lit Houses, a finalist…
On Negotiating Time and Place: A Conversation with Karen Head on her forthcoming fifth book of poetry, Lost on Purpose, Iris Press, 2019 Karen Head’s new collection of poems, Lost…
RIFT ZONE, Taylor’s third book, is due out in 2020 from Red Hen Press. Her poems trace literal and metaphoric fault lines between past and present; childhood and adulthood; what is and what was. Circling an ordinary California suburb…