The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Blog of Rabih Alameddine

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Demeter to Persephone by Alicia Ostriker

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Demeter to Persephone I watched you walking up out of that hole All day it had been raining in that field in S...

December by Charles Simić

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December               It snows and still the derelicts             go carrying sandwich boards—               on...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Poem in October by Dylan Thomas

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Poem in October         It was my thirtieth year to heaven      Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wo...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Rickey Laurentiis

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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame The way he writhed       Beneath the other man Argued his loneliness,     ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing by Sasha Pimentel

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Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing   The one in the book after this, you’re in the Louvre, whiter and colder ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Wanting a Child by Jorie Graham

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Wanting a Child   How hard it is for the river here to re-enter the sea, though it’s most beautiful, of course, ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethewey

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Theories of Time and Space   You can get there from here, though there’s no going home.   Everywhere you go ...
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