Poetic Medicine

By Gary Beck In the mall shoppers come and go as mindless as the buffalo, herded for their own distraction into havens of attraction, ...

Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: “If anyone...

By Jayne Cortez My friend they don’t care if you’re an individualist a leftist a rightist a shithead or a snake They will try to exp...

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poets, come out of your closets. Open your windows. Open your doors. You've been holed up too long. No time n...

By Nina Mariah Donovan  I'm a Nasty Woman. Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in cheeto dust. Not as nasty a man who is ...

By Xiaogang Zhao I am ground glass opacity (GGO) in the lung, A vague figure shrouded in mystery and strangeness, Like looking at the mo...

By Kaveh Akbar  I’ve lost the unspendable coin I wore around           my neck that protected me from you, leaving it bodyhot in th...

By Wendy Cope 1.  HE TELLS HER He tells her that the earth is flat - He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and ...

By William Stafford We must go back and find a trail on the ground back of the forest and mountain on the slow land; we must begin to ci...

By Katherine Perry We were thirteen, or almost, and I had a swimming pool in my yard. We poured canola oil on our skin and stretched ou...

By May Sarton Let us step outside for a moment As the sun breaks through clouds And shines on wet new fallen snow, And breathe the new ai...

By Daniel Brenner There isn’t enough soy sauce in the world to feed Jews on Christmas Huddled around steaming plates of dumplings Discu...

“Sex is a political condition.” —Kate Millet No one disputes that sex is a condition in the world of the couple: from there, tenderness a...

By Adam Zagajewski Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The net...

By Amir Darwish An apology from Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslims) to humanity We are sorry for everything That we have caused ...

By Laura Gail Grohe When you see me, if you see me, I am your worst fears found form. “Pardon me sir, but could I have a dollar for fo...

and when I peed on the stick I knew my blood was like poison. When I turned 18, I had just started my medication, I peed on a stick, called...

By Julia Liberman  This is how it was for Lilith, first-born  human daughter of the Lord, first wife to a man whose name was mud:  She...

By Layli Long Soldier I too urge the President to acknowledge the wrongs of the United States against Indian tribes in the history of the ...

By Katherine D. Perry Waiting five years to adopt a daughter, I had time to carefully consider the impact of male bias on foreign shores...