Poetic Medicine

By Micah Fletcher I have watched men and women Take their skin with scissors And cut it down the middle Pulling it apart Like a...

By Eve Lyons Married Jewish female seeks one person who knows how to love country without hating its inhabitants who knows how to crad...

By Tony Walsh This is the place In the north-west of England. It’s ace, it’s the best And the songs that we sing from the stands, from o...

By Audre Lorde There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedic...

By Alexander Kimel Do I want to remember? The peaceful ghetto, before the raid: Children shaking like leaves in the wind. Mothers sear...

By Cherrie Moraga lo que quiero es tierra si no tierra, pueblo si no pueblo, amante si no amante, niño si no nino soledad tranquil...

By Kathleen Hart The president scrubbed climate change from the pages of whitehouse. gov, but the crack in the Antarctic ice shelf had ...

By Cheng Peng We built it! The flower-gardened villas. Where you live you so-called princelings, owners of the city we’re the same age, y...

By Noah Michelson For Paolo Fanoli  When I ask Paolo how to draw the line between not wanting to live anymore and wanting to die, all ...

By Li-Young Lee If your name suggests a country where bells might have been used for entertainment or to announce the entrances and exi...

By E. Ethelbert Miller it’s a strange time which finds me jogging in early morning the deadness of sleep alive in this world the empty ...

By Rolfe Humphries (Variation on a Welsh refrain Dy garu di a gerais) I have loved loving you O my dear, my softly spoken, Now the for...

By Joanna Fuhrman Everyone I ever loved is standing on a platform with a gun. In the cartoon version, a flag pops with the word 'b...

By Yevgeni Yevtushenko No monument stands over Babi Yar. A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone. I am afraid. Today, I am as old...

By Carol Seitchik "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing ...

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 ...