Andrea Gibson
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Distortion on TV
There’s a post I have sat on for a few months now. A post that I am not sure if I should write. It started back when we lost Andrea Gibson, one of my favorite poets. The shock that I felt when I read the news. The way my emotions boiled. It was as if Continue reading
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From “Birthday” by Andrea Gibson
At 15 my friend Jen tried to teach me how to blow rings of smoke. I’d watch the nicotine rising from her lips like fading halos, but I could never make dying beautiful. The sky didn’t fill with colors the night I convinced myself veins are kite strings you can only cut free. I suppose I love this life, in spite Continue reading
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National Poetry Month 2025
I don’t remember my first poetry book. Not even the first poem I read, though I imagine both might have been something written by Shel Silverstein. I have come to believe that Silverstein’s poetry is the gateway drug for most of us. Though despite not remembering where it started, poetry has become a major part Continue reading
Alan Dugan, Alan Pelaez Lopez, Amalia Ortiz, Amanda Gorman, Ana Castillo, Andrea Gibson, Audre Lorde, Beatriz Miralles de Imperial, César Leonardo de León, Claudia Rankine, Edward Vidaurre, Gregory Sherl, Guy Duke, Jack Kerouac, Jacob Saenz, James K. Baxter, Jared Singer, John Murillo, Kate Rushin, Marvin Bell, Michael Jones, National Poetry Month, Ntozake Shange, Paul Guest, Philip Lamantia, Poetry, R.K. Fauth, Rita Dove, Sabrina Benaim, Shel Silverstein, Tato Laviera, Xochiquetzal Candelaria -
National Poetry Month 2024
Amalia Ortiz, Ana M. Fores Tamayo, Andrea Gibson, Assata Shakur, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, César Leonardo de León, Claudia Rankine, Cynthia Cruz, Dunya Mikhail, Gloria Anzaldua, H. Melt, Ire'ne Lara Silva, Jane Mead, Juan Felipe Herrera, Kamala Platt, Katana Smith, Lauren Badillo Milici, Molly Brodak, Natalie D-Napoleon, National Poetry Month, Ocean Vuong, Olivia Gatwood, Pat Mora, Poem, Poetry, Priscilla Celina Suárez, PW Covington, Rossy Evelin Lima, Sabrina Benaim, Tracy K. Smith, Valarie Wallace, Vijay Seshadri, Warsan Shire
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