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“I’ll Settle for a Moment of Glory”: Lesbian-Feminist Poetry in Washington
“You have a beautiful voice”: snippets of a laureateship
2012
26 | Sandy Hook*
5AM Blues
8Rock Collective
By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital
, Edited by Kim Roberts (University of Virginia Press, 2020)
A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance
A Blizzard Blues
A Hindu Prayer
A Hip-Hop Sonnet
A Jewish Cemetery in Büdingen, Germany
A Small Tribute to Philip Levine
A Splendid Wake Issue
A Sterling of a Man
A Writing Assignment from Rita Dove
Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia
Against the Wall
Alain Ginsberg Portfolio
Alice
An Accounting
An Interview with James A. Emanuel
At the Emlekpont Remembrance Museum
Baltimore Sun
Barbara Goldberg Translates Moshe Dor
Because I Could Mumble Some Words
Betty’s Book
Big Bang
billy eckstine comes to washington, d.c.
Birdland
Bones
Bound
Burgi Zenhaeusern Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Busman
Cacayo Ballesteros
Careless Love
Cemetery
Christina Daub Translates Blanca Wiethüchter
coffee with a married woman
Cycles
Dan Vera: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Danielle Badra Portfolio
DC Poetry Anthologies
DC Slam History
Deborah Sobeloff Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Deep in These Woods
Delicious, New Edition, 1986
Didn’t We…
Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Dig, Find, Make Way
Dream Variation
Early Cinema
Facebook Message
Failed Sonnet After the Verdict
Festival of Season Words
First Freed
First Fruit (And Aftermath)
Five Poems
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Five Poems by Anya Creightney
Five Poems by Carolyn Joyner
Five Poems from
How to Prove a Theory
Five Poems from
Lion Brothers
Five Poems from
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Five Poems from
The Heart of a Comet
Five Poems from
Umberto’s Night
Five Poems from
When the World Breaks Open
Five Poems in Response to “Julius Caesar”
Five Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”
Fly
For Ann Darr at the Air and Space Museum
For Peace in the Valley
Four Poems
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Four Poems by Carlo T. Paul
Four Poems by Kimberly A. Collins
Four Poems from
Elegies for New York Avenue
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Four Poems from
Immigrant
Four Poems from
In the Company of Spirits
Four Poems from
La luz de la tormenta/The Light of the Storm
Four Poems from
Loose Weather
Four Poems from
Stronger Than Cleopatra
Four Poems from
Words Facing East
Four Poems in Response to “Julius Caesar”
Fourteen Poems by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Frac/tions
Friend
From Friends to Griots: The Modern Urban Griots
Golem Event
Guilford Courthouse
Gypsy Girls
Harlem
Hilary Tham: Tenth Anniversary Issue
How To Speak American
Hunted
i come to the city
In Siberia
Indigo
Indran Amirthanayagam
Interview with Danish Kroner
Interview with May Miller
Intraducible/Untranslatable
Introduction
Introduction and Table of Contents: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue
Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue
Introduction to The Jewish Issue
Introduction to the LGBTQ Issue
Introduction to the Slam Issue
Introduction to the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
Introduction to U.S. Poets Laureate Issue, Part II
Introduction, “Poets Respond to Shakespeare”
Introduction: Envisioning the Future
Isabel’s Corrido
It is a Living Coral
It’s Possible I’m Too Bougie to Be Free
January 21, 2013
Job 62
Jona Colson Translates Miguel Avero
Julia Leverone Translates Francisco Urondo
Kaleidoscope
Karl Shapiro, Poet and Anti-Critic
Karl W. Carter, Jr.
Kateema Lee Portfolio
Keith Cohen Translates Joseph Polius
Kwame Alexander: Tenth Anniversary Issue
La Petite Amie
Larry Neal: In Service of Art
Leeya Mehta Portfolio
Max and Frieda’s Guide to Fine Dining for Sexagenerians
Mercy
Metal Anniversary
Michelangelo’s David
Mirrors
Misty Friday Morning
moneymaker
Montana Terrace
More A’s B’s C’s & D’s, or The President Is About To Grab Victim’s Money Like It’s Pussy
Mother Night
Mural for the Heart
My Jacob
My Mother’s Belly
Myra Sklarew on William Stafford
Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Pham Lê Translate Lê Pham Lê
Naomi Ayala: Tenth Anniversary Issue
New York
Nine Poems by Charlotte Forten Grimké
Nine Poems by Gwendolyn Bennett
Nine Poems in Response to Richard III
Not Thirst. Preparation.
Notes on Debridement
Ode to Urban Dictionary
Of Thee I Sing III – America You Deserve
Old Egg
One Poem
Ooth Jazz
Orphan of Silence: Charles Simic
Patricia Davis Translates Francisco de Oraá
Patricia Davis Translates Juan Garrido Salgado
Patricia Davis Translates Lucia Robles
Perspective from My Parents’ Bed
Peter
Pioneers of a New Breed
Prawn Woman
Preface to the Some Of Us Press Issue
Prizes
Puppeteer
Regie Cabico: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Reinaldo Arenas and Roberto Valero: Friends and Exiles in Washington, DC
Relax, Relate, Release
Remembered by Name
Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
Returning
Reunion/
Teshuvah
Revisionist History
Rick Black translates Rachel Bluwstein
Robert Hayden on the Art of Saying What Cannot Be Said
Rodeo, North Dakota
Roland Flint and Siv Cedering Fox
Sam Allen, aka Paul Vesey
San-San Tin Translates San-San Tin
Scars of Last Year’s Leaves
Schmaltz
Sergio Waisman Translates Yaki Setton
Seven Poems
Seven Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”
Shallows II
Shoes of the Dead
Six Poems
Six Poems by Anthony Hecht
Six Poems from
The January Children
Six Poems from
The Mustard Seed
Slow Through the Dark
Sonnet 57
Sonnet, for Alice
Spacer
Stanley Kunitz: Naked in His Prose
sterling brown’s house, washington dc 1990’s
Survivor’s Song
Swing It
Tea in the Late Afternoon
Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown
Teri Ellen Cross: Tenth Anniversary Issue
The Baby
The Ballad of Alice Hortense
The Day of the Gwendolyn
the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.
The Howard Poets in Perspective
The Immigrant Museum
The Library and its Laureates: The Examples of Auslander, Williams, Dickey & Kumin
The Marital Bed
The Mechanical Jew
The Poet and the Mule
The Poetry Office: A Photo Essay
The Switch
The Tecata Dances on Park Road
The Tenaciousness of Spark Matsunaga
The Uncontrollable Elements: An Interview with Mark Strand
Things I never want to hear again about race and racism
Things My Mother Taught Me
Thinking of James Wright
Three Lessons Lawrence Wheatley Dropped on Spanish Joe
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Three Poems from
Moving Violation
Three Poems in Response to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug
Three translations of poems by Gerardo Diego
Three translations of poems by Rene Char
Three Winter Poems
Ting Wang Translates Chen Li
To Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Crusader
To John Brown
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké
To the Dunbar High School
Toni Asante Lightfoot: Tenth Anniversary Issue
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Two Poems in Response to Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Prose Poems
Two Prose Poems
Two Prose Poems
Two Sonnets
Vegan
Vestiges
Whale Songs
What to Call Her
While in Pursuit of the Perfect Summer Purse
White
Wiedergutmachung
Woman’s Home
Your Poem
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher Translate Maria Teresa Ogliastri