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More PoemsMiracle Ice Cream
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
1995
My Philosophy of Life
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
1995
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Courtesy of Maha Hashwi Maha Hashwi
Read more about >Maha Hashwi is a Lebanese American poet. She received her MA in environmental public health from New York University.
Courtesy of Deahna Fumarol Deahna Fumarol
Read more about >Deahna Fumarol is a poet. She lives in Toledo, Oregon, on the ancestral lands of the Yaqo’n.
Maurice Rodriguez
Maurice Rodriguez is a writer, translator, and editor living in New York.Read more about >
Texts
| Title | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Pearls | Essays | May 2026 |
| One Question: Short Conversations with Poets (Yusef Komunyakaa) | Interviews | Apr 2026 |
| One Question: Short Conversations with Poets (Diane Seuss) | Interviews | Apr 2026 |
| One Question: Short Conversations with Poets (Arthur Sze) | Interviews | Apr 2026 |
| Planting Seeds, Creating Safe Passages | Essays | Apr 2026 |
Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi |