I want to Be a Dog: Poetry
I want to Be a Dog, Except for that They get Killed by Chocolate, Dump Trucks, and Rednecks And cruelest of all, Faithless neglect. ‘Cause I will never want for […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
What You Wish For: Poetry
This poem was originally published on the University of Edinburgh website for winning the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize. https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/writing/olivia-thomakos-what-you-wish-for/ Constantly pestered for coconut pancakes, Spencer threw together breakfast blizzards coated […]
Oh Good, Her Heart: Poetry
The world is buzzing but I am soft. The wheels are churning but mine are stopped. How long until I find my heart? Oh, she calls from Northern Hills. From […]
Hard River: Poetry
It’s hard to imagine fish again with their little black silksuits, & the how they run to heaven as one. * Menhaden feed the bees, cormorants, gulls and the black […]
Twilight in Tiverton: Poetry
By Alyssa Souza Without dawn’s permission All this town’s foliage Withers into intangible spindles: Where we can hear the petrichor As it dribbles from Nimbus mouths Into the creek; leaping, […]
What is a Limerick?
There once was a man from Pawtucket And played on his knee a gutbucket With his clever word play People would dance the night away And sculpted him a statue […]
POEM SIX: Twilight Hour
Waking up screaming From dreaming to a black and white screen. Covering life, or so it seems. I flit like a ghost and those that used to care the most […]
The Poet of our Times
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading is returning for its 31st consecutive year, to begin black history month. The annual free event will celebrate the powerful work of poet Langston […]
Duty, after Jenny Joseph: Poetry
I cannot wait for my days of purple.As it stands,my empty womb and Ihave received detailed instructionsto leave the five cats with my best friendto tan naked in Ibiza.With breasts […]
Headline: Poetry
Hate laced lead projectiles pierce through a peaceful Providence. A rush to usher innocents towards shuttered confinements that smell of fear. Ivy League opulence left tarnished by trauma. A city […]