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Madeline’s poem is the story of a simple, albeit usually drunk, man who is a regular at a diner, and his unique hearse. The story progresses from first a description of the man to the story of how he came … Continue reading →

Taylor’s poem is an ode to the ancient Greek goddess Nyx, the goddess of night. After my first read through of this poem it left me a little confused, but after some brief Wikipedia research all the allusions began to … Continue reading →

Rachel’s poem is an inner monologue of Marie Antoinette, wife of king Louis XVI, on the night of king Louis XV’s death. The poem follows the narrator’s anxious and sometimes frantic thought process on both the death of the king, … Continue reading →

Caitlyn’s poem, Blessed Be the Tie That Binds, is the melancholy story of a Grandma who died of cancer, and the ideas that she embodied for the narrator. The poem has a religious undertone from the very start, as the … Continue reading →

Dorothy Montgomery’s poem is a third-person analysis of a member of a church choir, Sister Bach.  In the first half of the poem the character of Sister Bach is built up as a stubborn, independent woman: “She acted as if … Continue reading →

Abbay’s poem “Collections of Childhood Memories” reads like the old childhood rhyme that used what you expected the last word of each stanza to be, as the first word in a totally new stanza. I love the three stand-alone lines … Continue reading →

I very much enjoyed this poem. I may be biased because it does a great job at embodying an experience and an emotion that I love: standing in the middle of a rainstorm and looking up at the sky. The … Continue reading →

Sarah took the act of riding in a car/truck – something many of us do on a day-to-day basis without a second thought – and fleshed it out into a full-bodied experience. She hit on every one of the senses … Continue reading →