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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 Wikimedia Commons Hanshan
Hanshan (寒山), or Hánshān was a Chinese poet from the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and lived as a hermit.Read more about >
Courtesy of Nicole Sealey Nicole Sealey
Read more about >Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017). She is the Executive Director at the Cave Canem Foundation, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Photo credit: Charlie Vázquez Urayoán Noel
Urayoán Noel was born on April 12, 1976, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was raised in Río Piedras. Noel is a professor, cultural organizer, poet, critic, translator, performer, artist, and writer.Read more about >
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Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi | ||
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book |