Poetic Medicine

By Sherman Alexie When other Indians want to give thanks For my poems, stories, readings, and movies, They often give me Pendleton blank...

By Charles Reznikoff Not because of victories I sing, having none, but for the common sunshine, the breeze, the largess of the spring...

By Li-Young Lee People have been trying to kill me since I was born , a man tells his son, trying to explain the wisdom of learning a se...

By David Karpel  Gd, I don’t want to talk to You today.  Today I was late for work.  I couldn’t tear myself away from the news.  Pesha...

By A. Lawrence Vaincourt He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories ...

By Rafael Campo You say, “I do this to myself.” Outside, my other patients wait. Maybe snow falls; we’re all jus...

By Cameron Conaway   You should have just asked the mosquito. — 14th Dalai Lama It's risky business needing (blood) from others ...

By William Carlos Williams Of asphodel, that greeny flower,            like a buttercup                       upon its branching stem - ...