Poetry Commons^™

Pulse, Nathan Alling Long

Bryant Literary Review

Dad stopped the car on the hill above school and put it in park.

The Ashland Bump, Dan Sieg

Bryant Literary Review

There was a quick rise and dip

in Ashland Street,

I never cared much why.

Easter Eggs, Vanessa Blakeslee

Bryant Literary Review

Julie wished the problem of the Easter eggs wouldn't turn into a blowout fight,

Memo To Mean Girls Everywhere, Nancy Craven

Bryant Literary Review

After you sign-on to U-Stream, and watch the backs of classmates whose fronts you no longer recognize

Why I Cannot Love Picasso, Devon Miller-Duggan

Bryant Literary Review

Sure, he gets that everything is broken

And still charged with lusts.

The Telephone Pole, Jay Baruch

Bryant Literary Review

Everyone leaves--the medics, the police, the coroner, the late night news crew

Gospel, Brady Rhoades

Bryant Literary Review

On French Hill, night falls and you sit on the slope

in your shanty clothes,

Childhood Nightmare, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

In the recurring dream I had as a child

I stood on a small platform

The Lemon Tree, Emily Swaine

Bryant Literary Review

I was walking back to camp with some new supplies when I noticed all the boys standing around,

Posted: Don't Poach, Nathan Whiting

Bryant Literary Review

You now read an uncollected poem.

If a poem collector, you should

In His Introduction To Five Poems, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

In his introduction to five poems, Su Tung-p'o wrote:

I got drunk and wrote five poems.

The Name, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

There should be a name for people

who sit on a rock for hours

Passio #008, George Gott

Bryant Literary Review

If we know

what we ought to know

we join hands with the mighty world

John 3:10010000110, John Supinski

Bryant Literary Review

Welcome to the kingdom of the Immortal

Where races are run barefoot

Contributors

Bryant Literary Review

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My Kind Of Nothing, Elizabeth C. Williams

The Mercury

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Dry Wood, Gregory E. Scheiber

The Mercury

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Ghazal For Emptiness, Eric J. Kozlik

The Mercury

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Paper Heart, Kelly J. Weitner

The Mercury

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Against The Wind, William M. Buerger

The Mercury

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Naked, Jenna Devine

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Buddha Speaks With His Oncologist (For David Getches), Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

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Front Matter

Corresponding Voices

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Corresponding Voices Volume 4 (Complete)

Corresponding Voices

The full issue of Corresponding Voices volume 4, featuring Jules Gibbs, Michael Burkard, Madeleine Stratford, María Negroni, and edited by Pedro Cuperman.

Jules Gibbs Folio, Jules Gibbs

Corresponding Voices

A folio of English-language poetry by Jules Gibbs.

María Negroni Folio, María Negroni

Corresponding Voices

A folio of poetry by María Negroni, appearing in the Spanish original and in the English translation by Michelle Gil-Montero.

Commonthought (2011), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Inverting The Haiku Moment: Alienation, Objectification, And Mobility In Richard Wright’S ‘Haiku: This Other World’, Thomas Lewis Morgan

English Faculty Publications

Richard Wright’s haiku — both the 4,000 he wrote at the end of his life and the 817 he selected for inclusion in Haiku: This Other World (1998) — remain something of an enigma in his larger oeuvre; critics variously position them as a continuation of his earlier thematic concerns in a different literary form, an aesthetic departure from the racialized limitations imposed upon his earlier work, or one of several positions in between. Such arguments debate the formal construction as well as the strategic reinvention of Wright’s haiku. The present essay engages both sides of this conversation, arguing that …

A Door Opens, Tim Boykin

The Messenger

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Moment Of Silence, Cassandra Calin

The Messenger

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