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Eleanor Wilner
"Entering the Labyrinth," an essay on the persona poem.

Eleanor Wilner
Four persona poems: Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus, and The Minotaur.


POETRY

This marks an author's first online publication Michelle Boisseau

This marks an author's first online publication Annie Boutelle
Christine Casson
This marks an author's first online publication Carolyn Creedon
Claudia Emerson
Daisy Fried
Diane Gilliam
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Kathleen Jesme
Ilya Kaminsky
Marilyn Krysl
David Lee
Gary Copeland Lilley
Maurice Manning
Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Jo Rabins
Tim Seibles
This marks an author's first online publication Heidy Steidlmayer
 
Book Review
"Tourist in Hell" by Eleanor Wilner—Book Review, by David Rigsbee.

Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker has published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), and has twice been a National Book Award finalist. She is also the author of Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (Beacon Press, 1987) and other books of criticism.


Grandma Speaking    


turn on the XM radio
listen to 'sixties rock
what better way to be
running out the clock

it brings me back to the dance floor
brings me back to the fire
seemed like the road was calling
we used to get higher and higher

they were napalming kids in Asia
we didn't know what for
thought if we loved each other
we'd put an end to war

guitar strings twisted electric
we climbed like a rope or a breath
or a green beanstalk while Joy
took the mike with her partner Death

we thought minds could be altered
we thought the times were changed
the man was skinning the drum
the saxophone was deranged

yeah turn on the XM radio
listen to 'sixties rock
no better way to be
running out the clock

 

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