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"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
September 8, 2025
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"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
Wes Lydon
September 8, 2025

"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris

Wes Lydon
September 8, 2025
Small Kindnesses
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"Peers" - Craig Morgan Teicher
February 4, 2026
Poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher, The New Yorker
"Peers" - Craig Morgan Teicher
February 4, 2026
Poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher, The New Yorker

I’m thinking of you beautiful
and young, of me young

and confused and maybe

February 4, 2026
Poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher, The New Yorker
"The Debate" - Alison Luterman
October 13, 2025
Poetry, Alison Luterman, The Sun
"The Debate" - Alison Luterman
October 13, 2025
Poetry, Alison Luterman, The Sun

I’m listening to my father and his brother,
both in their eighties, debate their childhood
from adjoining La-Z-Boy recliners.

October 13, 2025
Poetry, Alison Luterman, The Sun
"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
September 8, 2025
Poetry, Danusha Laméris, The New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye
"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
September 8, 2025
Poetry, Danusha Laméris, The New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”

September 8, 2025
Poetry, Danusha Laméris, The New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye
"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
April 7, 2025
Poetry, Poets.org, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
April 7, 2025
Poetry, Poets.org, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

We are Starseeds  
                   every one of us –  
                                                     you & me,

April 7, 2025
Poetry, Poets.org, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
January 13, 2025
Poetry, C.L. O'Dell, The Sun
"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
January 13, 2025
Poetry, C.L. O'Dell, The Sun

at the end of a bad year. Trees begin
to outnumber houses. Rain turns to snow
as fields hang like paintings.

January 13, 2025
Poetry, C.L. O'Dell, The Sun
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