"Poetry" July/ August 2018
"Tablets IV" by Dunya Mikhail selected stanzas 7 The map of Iraq looks like a mitten, and so does the map of Michigan-- a match I made by chance. 8 If you can't save people, at least don't hate them. (p315) 21 Their stories didn't kill me but I would die if I didn't tell them to you. (p318) 23 We are not upset when the grass dies. We know it will come back in a season or two. The dead don't come back but they appear every time in the greenness of the grass. (p319) "Concerning the Necropolitical Landscape" by Christopher Soto p338-339 Probably not for use with students. But I thought this poem was beautiful and heartbreaking. from "Under the Knife" by Krista Franklin "Are you...?" and to have to shatter their hopes of Dream Baby, and simultae- ously begin the Emotional Labor of soothing their embarrassment after hearing, "No." Because a woman with a swollen or distended ...