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Skip Zilla

"providence"

(written on Friday, July 6, 2007, before dawn) He learned from her to touch the wind in billows of an emerald sea of grass. She learned...

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0 Jul 6
Skip Zilla

Leading from Within

"Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief perso...

Started by Skip Zilla

1 Jan 29
Reply by Anna Billings
Skip Zilla

Elizabeth Alexander to recite her poem for Inauguration

Elizabeth Alexander has been asked to recite an original poem she's written for the U.S. Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2009. I...

Started by Skip Zilla

0 Jan 14
Skip Zilla

Lady Freedom Among Us

Rita Dove, who recently served the U.S. as its youngest Poet Laureate, wrote Lady Freedom Among Us for the occasion of the restoration of...

Started by Skip Zilla

1 Dec. 2, 2008
Reply by Ed Jones
Skip Zilla

Pietro’s dream

(prompted by reading a portion of the Rigveda and written on Sunday, December 10, 2006, early in the morning) Hungering for remedy Pietr...

Started by Skip Zilla

0 Oct. 9, 2008
Connie Weber

The Hollow Men, by T.S. Elliot

A poem by T.S. Elliot I've been thinking a lot about, particularly since David Perkins put up part V for us all to reflect upon during on...

Started by Connie Weber

1 Oct. 8, 2008
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Skip Zilla

at Professor Collins’ door

(written on Tuesday, January 25, 2005, around daybreak) I knocked on Professor Collins’ door, hoping to hear from the horse’s mouth how ...

Started by Skip Zilla

1 Oct. 4, 2008
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Skip Zilla

skipping pebbles together

(written on Wednesday, January 23, 2008, right after daybreak) (dedicated to the heroic citizen-soldier of 1944-45 who still is my Dad) ...

Started by Skip Zilla

0 Sep. 23, 2008
Skip Zilla

History Of The Night by Jorge Luis Borges

Throughout the course of the generations men constructed the night. At first she was blindness; thorns raking bare feet, fear of wolves. ...

Started by Skip Zilla

1 Sep. 20, 2008
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Skip Zilla

John Updike's "Frankie Lane (1913-2007)"

The Stephen’s Sweet Shop, 1949. Bald Walt at work, “butterflying” hot dogs–– splitting them lengthwise for the griddle and serving them u...

Started by Skip Zilla

0 Sep. 19, 2008
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