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Beetles In Moonlight, Gordon Grice
Beetles In Moonlight, Gordon Grice
Westview
This rooted cliff is riddled and pocked. On August nights, you can watch the moonlight clatter into shards that move apart and come together to couple.
Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson
Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson
Westview
The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.
Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw
Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw
Westview
Window bound I sit and ponder Letting my sheltered eyes go wander.
Plowing, Kevin Oakes
Plowing, Kevin Oakes
Westview
As a kid growing up on a farm You are expected to learn how to plow
Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw
Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw
Westview
People often speak of rural Western Oklahoma as the middle of nowhere.
The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia
September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy
September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy
Westview
There’s grief from harvest early, or too late: bitter, hard, or over-ripened fruit.
In The Valleys, Devin Mitchell Durbin
Privy, Bret Lundstrom
Letter From The Father, Devin Mitchell Durbin
Malts, Bret Lundstrom
Alone Under The Night Sky, Bret Lundstrom
D’Amour Pour Paris, Jeffrey Yates
Ground To Be Moved, Bret Lundstrom
Remember When, Brandon Evans
The Constellations Of Conversations, Bret Lundstrom
The Voice Behind The Words, Brenden Kleiboeker
Tulips Along The Way, Bret Lundstrom
Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez
Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez
First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience
This poem discusses the overwhelming pressure that is put on students to justify their right to be admitted into universities or to receive scholarships based on their extracurricular activities. Many working-class, first-generation college students are unable to participate in organizations and programs that offer students a more well-rounded college experience. This can lead first-gen students, like the author, to feel isolated, inadequate, or illegitimate. "Applications for Dummies" expresses Sanchez's incessant fear that she will never be able to compete with other students who were given the opportunity to build more worldly resumes, despite her strong academic commitment and intellectual potential.
Revelation, Tanya Diaz
Revelation, Tanya Diaz
First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience
There can sometimes be a gap between first-gen students and parents who have not experienced the stress of higher education. Children may believe this stress to be a necessary sacrifice for their future wellness; however, they often cannot feel their parents' sacrifices, just as their parents cannot feel their child's mental strain. Diaz creates this poem in an effort to examine her relationship with her mother from an outsider's point of view, in the end realizing that although her parents cannot always understand her experiences, they care and will support her decisions.
The Surrender, Diane Hale
The Surrender, Diane Hale
Manuscripts
Light revolves
patterning grey age faces
in flashing momentary brilliance--
exposing shadow dreams
of victorious kingdoms
built in bottle caps
the shrapnel of hope's treachery--
to be swept away with
debris of belief
Heat Lightning At Night, Michael Martone
Definition Of Poetry, Lynn Z. Bloom
Definition Of Poetry, Lynn Z. Bloom
Manuscripts
Once
I took a course in aesthetics:
Three hours credit
If I could learn
What a poem was.