Poems

[She unknots the gold laces]

May 17, 2012

by Robert Thomas

She unknots the gold laces
of her stockings while he removes
his gloves of gray chamois … flashes of her white
shirt peer through the slash
of her bodice as she bends her neck
to remove the frenello of pearls …

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Poems: Archives

Ode to a Lamp

On May 10, 2012

by Ethel Rackin

Lamp, you are an enchanting one
A hideous one besides
Your tortoiseshell exterior shines
Against the stark reason of morning
And complements even the silkiest afternoons …

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Otho

On May 3, 2012

by Amy Lawless

A suicide was performed by a man who
lives in this building by the name of Willie Mays.
And he’d never heard of the real Willie Mays.
So he threw trash at people who called him
The Say Hey Kid. …

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Three Men

On April 26, 2012

by Hilary Sideris

Paul

A man at thirteen, he led
his lamb to temple for

slaughter, knew Hebrew
songs, the taste & sting

of desert sand. He spoke
Aramaic, wrote in Greek …

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Bikini Factory

On April 19, 2012

by Caley O’Dwyer

The main thing was to get on a game show as soon as possible.
You’d be amazed what money can do, “and who,” Marvin added,
as he stepped inside the mouth. The lights weren’t joking, the frivolity
was congealing, and good times were just ahead, getting tan. …

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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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