Category Archives: Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura 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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Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
"they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property"
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The pinko commie dyke hires
From Michigan she knows laid off / … she imagines wherever people make appliances / the work breaks their bodies
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Awoken again by the neighbor’s child screaming
“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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The Loss of Little Boy
A poet reflects on the language of war and loss on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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The Miami Beach Series, 1982
Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.
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Let The Father Give
A 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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Poems: Black Hat & Proposal
My hat bobs gaily on her head, / incarnating her as a Hasidic woman / on the extreme edge / of gender confusion.
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