Making History
By Marilyn NelsonSomebody took a picture of a class
standing in line to get polio shots,
and published it in the Weekly Reader.
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Marilyn NelsonSomebody took a picture of a class
standing in line to get polio shots,
and published it in the Weekly Reader.
By Antoinette BrimLet the moon untangle itself
from the clothesline, as coming daylight
diminishes its lamp to memory.
By Kathleen O'TooleHe arrived first as a student of geology
in the bicentennial year.
He witnessed
By Nahshon CookThen he explained
how the Buddha
instructed us
to reflect on the body
By Rich Villarlacking a proper entrance
into a poem
about Arizona Senate Bill 1070
By Patricia Spears JonesAnd I am full of worry I wrote to a friend
Worry, she replied about what—love, money, health?
All of them, I wrote back. It’s autumn, the air is clear
By Jeff GundyA good day for late wildflowers--daisies and burrs
leaned out into the path for a better view, brilliant
blue somethings with tiny blooms on tall stalks.
By Camille T. DungyPause here at the flower stand-mums
and gladiolas, purple carnations
dark as my heart.
By Philip MetresIn the green beginning,
in the morning mist,
they emerge from their chrysalis