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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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Photo credit: Shirley Cai Kalehua Kim
Kalehua Kim is the author of Mele (Trio House Press, 2025).Read more about >
Photo credit: Edgar Silex Edgar Gabriel Silex
Edgar Silex is the author of Borrowing Directions from the Dark (Poetry Northwest Editions, 2026) and Acts of Love (Northwestern University Press, 2004); and Through All the Displacements (Northwestern University Press, 1995).Read more about >
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Melissa Eleftherion is the author of Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026); Malocchia (White Stag, 2026), gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024); and field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), as well as twelve chapbooks.Read more about >
Texts
| Title | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Third Language | Essays | Oct 2026 |
| A Brief Guide to Ecopoetics | Schools & Movements | Sep 2026 |
| Translating from Mother Tongue and Between Different Cultures | Essays | Aug 2026 |
| Poetry’s Comforts and Mysteries | Essays | Jul 2026 |
| Meditations on Metzmama | Essays | Jun 2026 |
Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi | ||
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book |