Where Girls Still Ride the Beds of Pickup Trucks
The wind is always warm here. Breezes snap through their T-shirts, hot metal and sun burn their arms and bare […]
Poems, Rust Belt Poets, Tributes
Rust Belt Poets
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After the Reading by the Famous Poet
He sat at a table in the bookstore signing autographs. We stood all around, awkward, clinging, fawning, and he was
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Palimony
That winter I lived with a woman on a hill hit hard by winds off Lake Michigan as it sat
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In Detroit, What Counts as Grace
Trees growing from the roofs of empty factories and houses, birds nesting deep inside. Children at their desks without
Poems, Rust Belt Poets, Tributes
Art Installation
after Ryan Doyle’s Dragon Gon Krin, “Save the Arts” The artist had constructed from Midwest metal a dragon, fire flaming
Poems, Rust Belt Poets, Tributes
New Guide to the Quasi-Political
The Coca-Cola truck on fire was not quite a symbol of our now-dying capitalist system. And the buzz on the