The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Blog of Rabih Alameddine

Friday, October 28, 2022

X by Jean Valentine

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X   I have decorated this banner to honor my brother. Our parents did not want his name used publicly. —from an unnamed child's banner i...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Explains His Place in the Family by Shane McCrae

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Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Explains His Place in the Family   Dead Joseph died of falling off the porch On the th...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

A Kite for Michael and Christopher by Seamus Heaney

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A Kite for Michael and Christopher   All through that Sunday afternoon A kite flew above Sunday, a tightened drumhead, an armful of blow cha...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Telemachus’ Detachment by Louise Glück

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Telemachus’ Detachment   When I was a child looking at my parents’ lives, you know what I thought? I thought heartbreaking. Now I think hear...

The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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The Leaving   My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches. The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily. I was a ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

A Name by Ada Limón

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A Name   When Eve walked among the animals and named them— nightingale, redshouldered hawk, fiddler crab, fallow deer— I wonder if she ever ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Lipstick, 1935 by James Merrill

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Lipstick, 1935   At Aunt Pearl’s kiss the pointed head Extruded glistening pale red From the jet sheath where it was housed Looked like our ...
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