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Hoping to post new poetry outside of our classroom to give us something to read, speak back to, and consider together every week until June. The pitch and promise: “This poem is for you”
—Eloisa Amezcua, “Teaching My Mother English Over the Phone”
—Eve Ewing, “Affirmation”
—Paige Lewis, “On the Train, a Man Snatches My Book”
—Sally Wen Mao, “a dream or a fox”
—Joy Harjo, “This Morning I Pray for My Enemies”
—Melanie Poonai, “Where I’m From”
—Fatimah Asghar, “From”
—Matthew Olzmann, “The Skull of a Unicorn”
—Sharon Olds, “Socks”
—Aracelis Girmay, “On Kindness”
—Safia Elhillo, “Self-Portrait With No Flag”
—Stephanie Burt, “;”
—Arthur Sze, “In the Bronx”
—Clint Smith, “For the Hardest Days”
—William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say” (via @davepoems)
