One Year
© by Sharon Olds
When I got to his marker, I sat on it,
like sitting on the edge of someone’s bed
and I rubbed the smooth,
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Year: 2020
What’s In A Name (Explained)
The first stanza is about the emphatic first assertion of a young woman’s Independence.
The second describes her determination to triumph over the expectations of the patriarchy to conform.
The
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Love After Love © by Derek Walcott (Recitation)
Love After Love
© by Derek Walcott The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each
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© by Derek Walcott The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each
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Poem for Maya © by Carolyn Forche (Recitation)
Poem for Maya
© by Carolyn Forche Dipping our bread in oil tins
we talked of morning peeling
open our rooms to a moment
of almonds, olives and wind
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© by Carolyn Forche Dipping our bread in oil tins
we talked of morning peeling
open our rooms to a moment
of almonds, olives and wind
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Elegy for Ernest © by Taylor Mallay (Recitation)
Elegy for Ernest
© by Taylor Mallay A brown dotted body
with eight lean legs
hid behind a corner
of my old tea tin pencil holder,
like a toddler
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© by Taylor Mallay A brown dotted body
with eight lean legs
hid behind a corner
of my old tea tin pencil holder,
like a toddler
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Antidotes to Fear of Death © by Rebecca Elson (Recitation)
Antidotes to Fear of Death
© by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck
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© by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck
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Ode to a Pistachio
The shells of pistachios, for those too young to remember, were often died a bright red, the indelible evidence of pistachio-lovers left stained upon their fingers.
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Quarantine © by Eavan Boland (Recitation)
Quarantine
© by Eavan Boland In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with
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© by Eavan Boland In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with
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More and More © by Margaret Atwood (Recitation)
More and More
© by Margaret Atwood More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible
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© by Margaret Atwood More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible
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Always © by Pablo Neruda (Recitation)
Always
© by Pablo Neruda I am not jealous
of what came before me. Come with a man
on your shoulders,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
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© by Pablo Neruda I am not jealous
of what came before me. Come with a man
on your shoulders,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
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