Poking Around

Featured poem: Suggested Donation by Heather Christle.

Featured topics: middle school diaries, human belongings, the impossibility of flight, high school reunions, and the hit TV series Lost (2004).

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Featured poem: This Poem Wants to Be a Lesbian Country Song So Bad by Erica Gillingham

Featured topics: The Biggest Cutie Pie in New York, the American flag, country stuff, doomsday, and Carefree Zoe.

Poem read with permission from the author.

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Featured poem: Serendipity by Jeannine Hall Gailey. Featured topics: the Kinsey Scale, the female gaze, five dollar bills, the general concept of a glass ceiling, and dragons.

Poem read with permission from the author.

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Featured poem: Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Featured topics: blushing, the Titanic, the state of the world, our breaking hearts, bows and arrows, and mean girls.

Poem read with permission of the author's agent.

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Featured Poem: Dear Future Me (#12) by Lena Moses-Schmitt. Featured Topics: How to be a poet, 3D printing, the mind vs the body, and no-touch sinks.

Poem published in Tupelo Quarterly + read with permission of the author.

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Featured poem: Short Distance Friendship Lyndsay Rush 

Featured topics: Dance Dance Revolution, a speakeasy dollar store, stuffed animal tea parties, and our friend Emma. 

Poem read with permission from the author.

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Featured poem: The Day Mary Oliver Died by James A. Pearson. Featured topics: the vibe of wishes, how to be immortal, dude friendship, em dashes.

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Featured poem: Birth-day by Lucille Clifton. Featured topics: how to turn 21, getting dizzy, homework souls, and the tragic disappearance of woman pilot Amelia Earhart.

Poem read with permission from the publisher.  The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. Copyright © 2016 published by BOA Editions.

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Featured poem: The Raincoat by Ada Limon. Featured topics: Forbes 30 Under 30, fairy smut, a rare and unnamed ailment, and manic pixie dream girls. And our mothers, whom we love hugely and endlessly!

Poem read from The Carrying, published by Milkweed Editions and used with permission from the publisher.

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