The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Blog of Rabih Alameddine

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Palestinian Painter by Mosab Abu Toha

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Palestinian Painter   Two birds leave their nest, singing a song, perhaps for the artist working in what used to be a well-kept old garden. ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Lightkeeper by Carolyn Forché

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The Lightkeeper A night without ships. Foghorns called into walled cloud, and you still alive, drawn to the light as if it were a fire kept ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Heavy Summer Rain by Jane Kenyon

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Heavy Summer Rain   The grasses in the field have toppled, and in places it seems that a large, now absent, animal must have passed the nigh...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Casabianca by Elizabeth Bishop

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Casabianca   Love's the boy stood on the burning deck trying to recite "The boy stood on the burning deck." Love's the son...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Vertigo, Or A Contemplation of Things That Come To An End by Alejandra Pizarnik

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Vertigo, Or A Contemplation of Things That Come To An End This Lilac unleaves. It falls from itself and hides its ancient shadow. I will die...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Key Episodes from an Earthly Life by C. D. Wright

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Key Episodes from an Earthly Life     As surely as there are crumbs on the lips of the blind          I came for a reason   I remember when ...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Heat by Denis Johnson

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Heat Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth. It's beautiful Susan, her ...
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