
The bread has become moldy and the dates blown down by the wind; the iron has slipped from the helve. The wool was to by dyed red but the dyer dyed it black...

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"the only thing that told me that I wasn't crazy, that I wasn't living
in a nightmare, was this file of poems" http://bit.ly/bvMqZc
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Chilean poet Raúl Zurita talks about life after Pinochet.

I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth...

Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for a tilt with men— Your quave...

I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says that animals have no need of speech and Nature abhors the superfluous. My cat is fluent. He converses when he wants with me. To speak is natural. And...

Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine #Poetry from Dana Gioia, Wislawa Szymborska, David Shapiro, William Logan, Yusef Komunyakaa, more in Sept issue of @poetrymagazine. Avail Wed http://bit.ly/cKORos
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Poems by Anne Stevenson, Sandra Simonds, Anthony Madrid, Elizabeth Arnold, Connie Voisine; a libretto by Robert Pinsky; prose by Iain McGilchrist, Lynda Barry, John Wooden, and Ange Mlinko; reviews by Michael Dirda and Jason Guriel; letters.

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Over Greenland by Peter Campion www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.ht ml?id=239446
A current like a noise machine through sleep. / Blue lichen fields. Mossed boulders. Waking up / to ice cubes cracking in a plastic cup /

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Valerie Martínez, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, is also a teacher, translator, playwright, librettist, editor, and collaborative artist. Her first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent, won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. She has two books of poetry out this year.
Silvi...a Curbelo is the author of three collections of poetry. She has won fellowships from the NEA, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cintas Foundation, and is the managing editor of Organica magazine.
Co-sponsored with the Guild Complex and Letras Latinas
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Dora Malech, 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellow www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.ht ml?id=179577
My mother does not trust / women without it. / What are they not hiding? / Renders the dead living

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Ruth Lilly Fellow Nate Klug: www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.ht ml?id=238264
Off rows of windshields / in the Amtrak lot / rain in sudden / clumps like jacks. Parked cars

Barbed wires on rusted nails can’t hold lone bulls at home when they smell pasture. They thrust their bone skulls under barbs, ...

I chose the place where I would rest When death should come to claim me, With the red-rose roots to wrap my breast

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2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Winners Announced www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/rele ase_081910.html?id=186236
CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients of the 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Brooklyn Copeland, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Nate Klug, Dora Malech, and Christopher Shannon.



















