Her name is Miranda, and she’s an Engler on her father’s side, raised to be proud of the good her family did during a troubled time. To this day, at every family gathering, an ancient Engler is helped to their feet to tell the story of the weeks, months, years after the Battle of Gettysburg, …
The uniquely bright-blue sky, the grass, butterflies, and turtles in the poem are all part of a world that reimagines the typical relationship between lovers, but also between nature and the body.
At each level of poetic craft, Washington draws a stark contrast between the speaker’s deliberate reflections on home-making, on love, and other children’s frantic consumption in a fast food restaurant.
In “Master’s Mirror,” Steinorth reminds us that the purpose of erasure poetry isn’t to erase, but the opposite—it is to reveal what has already been obscured.
By pairing repetition and lists as the narrative moves through time, Sindu forms a striking portrait of a mother-daughter relationship complicated by generational differences.
In the spirit of the season, we here at CR thought it might be nice (and cathartic) to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on some of the best writing advice we are thankful to have received.
In “White People Parenting,” the observing speaker slowly realizes she is also being observed. … “Meanwhile, the baby stares at me—no, it’s staring at Noodles-Alfalfa woman, who is in turn watching me watch them.”
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