Poetic Medicine

By Anastasia Vassos The island holds dust like a bowl, but not for long. When the wind cracks, the sand snakes. The priest’s shutters a...

By William Shakespeare JACQUES: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their ...

By Bonnie Lyons (Esther 1) Yes, you're Jews but aren't you also women? How can you celebrate Esther, Mordechai's pawn, wh...

By Deborah Paredez Rate your pain the physical therapist instructs and I am trying not to do what they say women do lowballing the numb...

By Grace Paley It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman It is ...

By  Kimii Nagata Let not harsh tongues, that wag in vain, Discourage you. In spite of pain, Be like the cactus, which through rain, ...

By Linda Crate i never voted for you, i implored my friends not to because anyone who feels women are nasty or to be grabbed by the pu...

By Ysaye Maria Barnwell There were no mirrors in my Nana’s house, no mirrors in my Nana’s house. There were no mirrors in my Nana’s hous...

By Robert Pinsky I don’t think anybody ever is Really divorced, said Lenny. Also, I don’t think anybody ever is Really married, he said...

By Benjamin Franklin  While free from Force the Press remains, Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains, And Learning Largesses bestows, And...

By Geffrey Davis & F. Douglas Brown 1. dear boy be the muscle: make music to the bone—risk that mercurial measure of contact ther...

By Chelsea Krieg Astronomers have shown that dead stars known as white dwarfs can re-ignite and explode as supernovas.                ...

By Marge Piercy It is the New Year of the Trees, but here the ground is frozen under the crust of snow. The trees snooze, their buds tig...

By Joy Harjo I heard they started drilling today Water is Life I heard the sound of bit hit bone Water is Life I heard the blood rush up f...

By Naomi Shihab Nye Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth I lumbered into a storm of snow up the long hill and did not know where I w...

By Johnny Cash I walked through a county courthouse square On a park bench an old man was sitting there I said, your old courthouse is k...

By Robinson Jeffers Then what is the answer?—Not to be deluded by dreams. To know the great civilizations have broken down into violence,...

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...