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THREE POEMS BY CYNTHIA CRUZ Twelve in Yellow-Weed at the Edge Then, the police arrive—they don’t find me. I’m disguised as a boy in a champagne wig And hid inside the gold rattle of a warm Appalachia wind. Beneath the trash of willow, I am. The sorrow Of trailer parks and carnie uncles. The poorContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

CARRIE OEDING Those Women Are Laughing Sorry Susanna, we’ve already worn the red dress tight, yes, without a slip, once with the zipper broken, to a wedding and to our birthday, where, yes, we ate the cake with our hands. We ate the dress. We wore it as if we had a secret, over andContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS DALIA TAHA Emptiness Your hand, which sprouted in air to carry what was dropped of water banks in the face of your absence, waves from a distance in order for me not to see it. I didn’t sleep near your neutrality for the mirrors to dream within us, I didn’t hideContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS JULIET COOK Venus Tree I planted my oranges with teeth. I offered my crush a piece of spiked fruit; next thing I knew, he was missing an arm. Could this be transcendence in a newfangled way or were we just consuming each other? How do we move past our mutilation intoContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

FIVE POEMS, THREE POETS THOMAS DEVANEY all day dance 1963 implacable in a chair she sits in the only way she knows how completely then much later a turn or rather a push into a place she looked headed the sound of a clap hits everyone a door is opened and remains so and nowContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

Jim Daniels will be reading at the English department’s Literary Awards event.  Both a poet and a fiction writer, Daniels was the guest judge for the Awards this year. When: Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7pm Where: Weikamp Hall, Room 1001 After the reading there will be refreshments.  This event is free and open toContinue reading “Upcoming Events”