POETRY
POETRY: Atlanticism

the inviolate red rock overlooking the greyed connecticut shore watches sleepily as  we clamber barefoot toward the sea   bottles and books and cheaply made […]

POETRY: Qualms

Mother, quiet and pregnant with fear, raised a daughter with no tongue. I remember in our old house the door opened outward to the grass, […]

POETRY: Bared

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1142041966″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /] there are pomegranates in your cheeks. a saccharine smile leaves the sap in its place. your eyes sparkle […]

POETRY: Yellow Cento

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1039141369″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /] This poem is a collage poem made from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.        […]

POETRY: It’s July in the Desert, so I Miss You

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1039145011″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]   You weren’t there, but late at night, As the wind pressed open the window and  Blew in […]

POETRY: At Meng Po’s Bridge of Rebirth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1039147696?secret_token=s-9v9GezmZ8L8″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /] can you promise me now when you see me at the bridge, you won’t say you’re proud and […]

Valerie Navarrete
POETRY: Interrupted Connection

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1005510490?secret_token=s-xThY3VQLUfR” params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] The press of our Uber driver’s ankle has sent us to a part of town where traffic lights […]

POETRY: I Want Us Both to Eat Well

after Christopher Citro’s “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks”   [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1005505513?secret_token=s-EfrkipNXlqZ” params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]             […]

POETRY: County Fair

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/975172729″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] Yale Daily News Magazine · County Fair 1. A teenage boy is waiting in line for the ferris […]

POETRY: Summer Mortal

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/975176431″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] Yale Daily News Magazine · Summer Mortal Fishing with my father, I learned how to cast and reel, […]

POETRY: I WANNA PLAY WHERE YOU PLAY WITH THE ANGELS

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/933229948″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /] I CANNOT SPEAK TO THE MAGNITUDE OF THESE UNPRECEDENTED TIMES / THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES / THESE UNSTABLE TIMES […]