The Art Divas / Divas of Verse
Blog of Rabih Alameddine
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Wake Up by Adam Zagajewski
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Wake Up Wake up, my soul. I don’t know where you are, where you’re hiding, but wake up, please, we’re still together, the road is still be...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
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While Everything Else Was Falling Apart In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where ...
Saturday, August 16, 2025
I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson
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I Cannot Live With You I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to...
Friday, August 15, 2025
Columbine by Javier Zamora
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Columbine I’d never seen one like it: the flower with its many orange cups. Dad drove me to Yosemite the second month in this country. He ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Persimmons by Li-Young Lee
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Persimmons In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not knowing the difference between ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Let the Last Thing Be Song by Hannah Fries
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Let the Last Thing Be Song i. Memory is safest in someone with amnesia. Behind locked doors glow the unmarred pieces— musical note...
Friday, August 8, 2025
Hymn by Marie Howe
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Hymn It began as an almost inaudible hum, low and long for the solar winds and far dim galaxies, a hymn growing louder, for the moon...
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