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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 E. B. White
Read more about >E. B. White was an American essayist, poet, and children’s book author born on July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, New York.
Photo credit: David Surowiecki Meghan O’Rourke
Read more about >Born in New York in 1976, Meghan O'Rourke's first book of poetry, Halflife, was a finalist for Britain's Forward First Book Prize
Photo credit: Kaelen Burkett Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison is the author of Between Lakes (Four Way Books, 2020) and six other books of poetry. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.Read more about >
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| Jubilee in the Jukebox | 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 |