Endings

The queens show why it matters how you wrap it up.

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Read Robert Hayden's iconic “Those Winter Sundays” here.

Read Sharon Olds’s “I Go Back to May 1937” here

You can read Louise Glück’s poem “Vita Nova” here.

 TERF Adrienne Rich’s poem “Diving into the Wreck” can be read here. 

Read Lucille Clifton’s “why some people be mad at me sometimes” here. 

Martha Zweig's poem “Burying the Cat” from Vinegar Bone can be read here. 

Threa Almontaser’s website is https://www.threawrites.com. Read her poem “Hidden Bombs in My Coochie” here.

Read Toi Derricotte's poem “On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses” here. If you’d like to read more about “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” here’s a great article in the New Yorker where true-crime scholar Jean Murley discusses the history of it.

Read Derrick Austin's poem “Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick."  You can see Derrick Austin read (with Ashley M. Jones) here.

Matt Donovan’s poem “Shooting Justin Bieber and bin Laden in the Woods” in the Massachussets Review here.  Visit Matt Donovan online at his website at: https://mattdonovanwriting.com

Read James Harms’s poem “Mexican Christmas” here. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “Monsters” from her first book, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, can be read  here.  Her 2nd book, Bianca, is getting rave reviews!  Order it now here.  And visit Eugenia Leigh online at https://www.eugenialeigh.com