Poetry
Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
January 2, 2019Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, THINGS THAT GO, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
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Poetry
Two Poems From 'Comfort'
December 11, 2018"they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property"
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Poetry
The pinko commie dyke hires
November 21, 2018From Michigan she knows laid off / … she imagines wherever people make appliances / the work breaks their bodies
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Poetry
Awoken again by the neighbor’s child screaming
August 29, 2018“When no one comes, / he and I keep vigil / in the treeless night, / sharing a wall he builds / with his voice”
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Poetry
The Loss of Little Boy
August 6, 2018A poet reflects on the language of war and loss on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Poetry
The Miami Beach Series, 1982
July 16, 2018Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.
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Poetry
Let The Father Give
June 19, 2018A poet reflects on the terror and tenderness of her son's first bath in light of family separations at the border.
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Poetry
Poems: Black Hat & Proposal
June 14, 2018My hat bobs gaily on her head, / incarnating her as a Hasidic woman / on the extreme edge / of gender confusion.
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