Poking Around

Featured poem: This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams. Featured topics: bus dynamics, suspension stories, selfish men, plums, ice boxes, leftover etiquette, and the speed of smell.

"This is Just to Say," by William Carlos Williams, from THE COLLECTED POEMS: VOLUME I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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Featured poem: Acknowledgements by Franny Choi. 

Featured topics: minivans, sarcasm, big fish in small ponds, teeth, touch, and near death experiences. 

Poem read with permission from Alice James Books. 

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Featured poem: This Too Shall Pass by Molly Hackett

Featured topics: Graffiti, tunnel people, seasonal depression, curses, a bunch of religious and mythological stuff, and Tumblr (2011).

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Featured poem: Object Permanence by Nicole Sealey.

Featured topics: travel, castles, cousins, love, tiers, and a crucial hard launch.

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Featured poem:  Every Time I Change My Mind About Dying, I Have to Convince My Body by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Featured topics: headaches, high school sweethearts, bucket lists, cliff jumping, medical commercials, and the unspeakable thing between two ends.

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Featured poem: Evolution by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Featured topics: New years, the French, the failures of language, deep sea creatures, and the unknowable realm of construction terminology.

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Featured poem: I hope this finds you by Raquel Franco

Featured topics: Wicked the movie musical, hope and/or cautious optimism, manifestation, the celebrity of being a teenager, the personal trend of the sweater vest, painting the walls, dopamine decor, and writing secret things on folded pieces of paper.

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Featured poem: Everyone calls me their husband by Seamus Isaac Fey. Featured topics: bikes, phenomenons of all stripes, mommy issues, daddy issues, the gynecologist, and being a third.

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Featured poem: Laura I want you pulling your hair back by Natalie Dunn

Featured topics: embarrassment, old friends, grinding at Sadie Hawkins, the Chekov’s gun to spoiler alert spectrum, playing pretend, horrible auditions, and being misunderstood.

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Featured guest: Shea Vassar. Featured poem: The Ascetic by Hannah Bonner. Featured topics: IUDs, twisters, religious trauma, mommy issues, puberty, and leg hair.

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