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To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

Right now, everyone wants another day, a different day. In her cleansing litany of a poem, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley promises that it is coming. After a wrenching parting, it is coming. After seasons of ...

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A poem springing from contradictions or opposites can be satisfying in its succinctness. The haunted mixtures of Jacqueline Saphra’s “Songs and Stones” feel familiar as cadences of the everyday, yet ...