Potential Titles: History
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somethingdarkerHistory's hollowed-out horrors - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
The whip marks of your history - Elmaz Abinader "Coming Clean"
What the experts refer to as history - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"
For whom history is of no importance - Etel Adnan "Night"
Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"
Their histories written in code - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
History wearing the face of family - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Neighbors and guardians of history - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
The serpent of history - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
When through the maze of history we stray - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Time laughs at History - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
As if history were a sound - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"
This single sliver of history - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
No dustbowl wind can lift this history of loss - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
In the trombone slide of history - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Pungent in the still images sacrificed to history - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"
Question history's blur - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
History is an accidental madness - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Our own altered histories and future visions - Bruce Boston "Dream People"
History cracks our spines - Julia Bouwsma "Untold"
A highball of history and radio - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Language plucked from history's catalogue - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"
The burnt edge of an unfinished history - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
The history of a million birds - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
In history a living page - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
History in jagged squares, broken lines - Sue Budin "On Beauty"
Given our so far narrow history - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
The privilege of a history - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
And tell him the history of his skin - Tina Chang "Fury"
History's weapons fall from my pockets - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Linked to history and forgetting - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"
And these ride high in history - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
stands in the tents of history - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"
History is a needle - Leonard Cohen "On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken"
No one is writing our history - Leonard Cohen "You Live Like a God"
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Dance in the fulcrum of history - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
Shifting on the hour in spliced histories - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Had no history to hook on to - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
As far from time as history - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"
Retires to rest with history - Dom "Year's End"
Drags along the land of history - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
History has many cunning passages - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Far in the deeps of history - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Directed away from history - Elaine Equi "Enter Here"
The heavy dress of history - Heid E. Erdich "She Dances"
History repeated past all logic - Mari Evans "Alabama Landscape"
Each journey wrought another history - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Beneath the blue curve of history - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Floating World"
On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"
History beyond order - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"
History of hurricanes and fraud - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
Offers history few options - James Galvin "Upslope"
The tailor of histories - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Didn't want history to exist - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
A strategy for ignoring history - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"
Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
Some lash made of history - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"
His history would borrow - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
Their dead weight sinks our histories - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"
To make waves in a history - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
The undercurrent of history repeating itself - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
That history is a stirring in our bones - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Royal in their history of tears - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
With little more than hope for history - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
A people's history crumbling - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"
History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
Quietly pursuing catastrophic histories - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Catastrophic histories buried in my eyes - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Sealed history awaiting an interpreter - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"
All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Spiraled down through the family history - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"
Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
History woven from the plural - Christopher Kondrich "Peace Epic"
Now becomes a seed for history - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's
The first kiss carries history - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
My need roams history - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
Recovering the silenced history - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
That have mermaids singing their histories - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"
Coalesce in the fabric of history - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
Histories have claimed you - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
With its crown of histories - Alice Meynell "To Antiquity"
Stretched out throughout histories - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
To contemplate an unforgiving history - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"
Carried this history like a tattoo - Yesenia Montilla "A Perfect Game"
The history of displacement - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
History more deadly than earthquakes or hurricanes - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
The lonely exile of your dead history - Walter Dean Myers "Harland Keith, 33, Reporter"
A history to live through - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
You cannot rescue history from dust - Andre Naffis-Sahely "The Other Side of Nowhere"
Unbroken symbol of proud histories - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
because the waters drowned our history - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Bitter and magic history - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
Out of the chrysalis of history - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"
Memory, stitched. History, soothed - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
Oak trees with their own history of migration - Jose Olivarez "You Must Be Present"
The history of qualified immunity - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 4"
At whose beckoning history shook - Dorothy Parker "Song of One of the Girls"
History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Walk the wrong way into history - Phan Nhien Hao "Song of Trees" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Dining at the table of history - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The table of history littered with leftovers - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"
Everything's somebody's history - Carl Phillips "Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers"
Neither history nor memory - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"
Until reduced to history - Carl Phillips "Forecast"
The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
History already mistaking itself for myth - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"
Tasting the bitter syllables of their history - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Great Migration"
The voice of the dead whispering history - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"
A prior history of moving elevations - Paige Quinones "Outpatient Visit Summary"
On history's tide receding - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"
Pressed like petals between the pages of history - Jacques J. Rancourt "As Weather"
A history of silence - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
History of fox briars of legend - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Initiate the poetics of my history - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
No more faith in history - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Forward into the history you will make - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
A question that will not sleep in history - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"
As though memory were not a history - Kay Ryan "An Instrument with Keys"
The distance between histories - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"
To write our names in history - Sonia Sanchez "Poem"
The audience that witnesses history - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
A few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I Am the People, the Mob"
a knot in a history of rope - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
The history of tunes sung from the abyss - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"
Snows that are older than history - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
The false heart's history - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIII"
Our cherished histories endure within the sea - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
A blueprint of history in my head - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
So that our histories turn to glass - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Numb to our bloodied histories - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
History is a ship forever setting sail - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
The first rough draft of history or legend - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
A broken testimony, the history of a world dissolving - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Gentle history of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"
Arranged by impossible history - Edwin Torres "Sutra"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The ending of my history of grief - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson
Observe history in your eyes - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Pulling history towards these feet - Divya Victor "Threshold"
Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"
The mesmerizing wake of History - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
In prophecies beaten by the wheels of history - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
To scrape off the layers of history - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"
To make the halting history much longer - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
How history does not wash away - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"
The first time we drowned in history - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"
As if to contemplate the history of beans - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"
History and future test one another - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
A shared sense of how to exhaust history - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"
Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The historical atrocity of cotton - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"
The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""
Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
Each gap a prehistoric horizon - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"
In the sinister caverns of howling prehistory - Pablo Neruda "Election in Chimborongo (1947)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
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The whip marks of your history - Elmaz Abinader "Coming Clean"
What the experts refer to as history - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"
For whom history is of no importance - Etel Adnan "Night"
Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"
Their histories written in code - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
History wearing the face of family - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Neighbors and guardians of history - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
The serpent of history - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
When through the maze of history we stray - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Time laughs at History - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
As if history were a sound - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"
This single sliver of history - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
No dustbowl wind can lift this history of loss - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
In the trombone slide of history - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Pungent in the still images sacrificed to history - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"
Question history's blur - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
History is an accidental madness - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Our own altered histories and future visions - Bruce Boston "Dream People"
History cracks our spines - Julia Bouwsma "Untold"
A highball of history and radio - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Language plucked from history's catalogue - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"
The burnt edge of an unfinished history - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
The history of a million birds - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
In history a living page - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
History in jagged squares, broken lines - Sue Budin "On Beauty"
Given our so far narrow history - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
The privilege of a history - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
And tell him the history of his skin - Tina Chang "Fury"
History's weapons fall from my pockets - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Linked to history and forgetting - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"
And these ride high in history - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
stands in the tents of history - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"
History is a needle - Leonard Cohen "On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken"
No one is writing our history - Leonard Cohen "You Live Like a God"
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Dance in the fulcrum of history - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
Shifting on the hour in spliced histories - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Had no history to hook on to - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
As far from time as history - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"
Retires to rest with history - Dom "Year's End"
Drags along the land of history - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
History has many cunning passages - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Far in the deeps of history - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Directed away from history - Elaine Equi "Enter Here"
The heavy dress of history - Heid E. Erdich "She Dances"
History repeated past all logic - Mari Evans "Alabama Landscape"
Each journey wrought another history - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Beneath the blue curve of history - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Floating World"
On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"
History beyond order - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"
History of hurricanes and fraud - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
Offers history few options - James Galvin "Upslope"
The tailor of histories - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Didn't want history to exist - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
A strategy for ignoring history - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"
Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
Some lash made of history - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"
His history would borrow - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
Their dead weight sinks our histories - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"
To make waves in a history - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
The undercurrent of history repeating itself - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
That history is a stirring in our bones - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Royal in their history of tears - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
With little more than hope for history - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
A people's history crumbling - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"
History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
Quietly pursuing catastrophic histories - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Catastrophic histories buried in my eyes - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Sealed history awaiting an interpreter - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"
All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Spiraled down through the family history - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"
Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
History woven from the plural - Christopher Kondrich "Peace Epic"
Now becomes a seed for history - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's
The first kiss carries history - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
My need roams history - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
Recovering the silenced history - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
That have mermaids singing their histories - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"
Coalesce in the fabric of history - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
Histories have claimed you - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
With its crown of histories - Alice Meynell "To Antiquity"
Stretched out throughout histories - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
To contemplate an unforgiving history - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"
Carried this history like a tattoo - Yesenia Montilla "A Perfect Game"
The history of displacement - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
History more deadly than earthquakes or hurricanes - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
The lonely exile of your dead history - Walter Dean Myers "Harland Keith, 33, Reporter"
A history to live through - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
You cannot rescue history from dust - Andre Naffis-Sahely "The Other Side of Nowhere"
Unbroken symbol of proud histories - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
because the waters drowned our history - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Bitter and magic history - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
Out of the chrysalis of history - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"
Memory, stitched. History, soothed - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
Oak trees with their own history of migration - Jose Olivarez "You Must Be Present"
The history of qualified immunity - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 4"
At whose beckoning history shook - Dorothy Parker "Song of One of the Girls"
History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Walk the wrong way into history - Phan Nhien Hao "Song of Trees" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Dining at the table of history - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The table of history littered with leftovers - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"
Everything's somebody's history - Carl Phillips "Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers"
Neither history nor memory - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"
Until reduced to history - Carl Phillips "Forecast"
The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
History already mistaking itself for myth - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"
Tasting the bitter syllables of their history - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Great Migration"
The voice of the dead whispering history - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"
A prior history of moving elevations - Paige Quinones "Outpatient Visit Summary"
On history's tide receding - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"
Pressed like petals between the pages of history - Jacques J. Rancourt "As Weather"
A history of silence - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
History of fox briars of legend - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Initiate the poetics of my history - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
No more faith in history - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Forward into the history you will make - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
A question that will not sleep in history - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"
As though memory were not a history - Kay Ryan "An Instrument with Keys"
The distance between histories - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"
To write our names in history - Sonia Sanchez "Poem"
The audience that witnesses history - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
A few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I Am the People, the Mob"
a knot in a history of rope - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
The history of tunes sung from the abyss - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"
Snows that are older than history - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
The false heart's history - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIII"
Our cherished histories endure within the sea - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
A blueprint of history in my head - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
So that our histories turn to glass - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Numb to our bloodied histories - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
History is a ship forever setting sail - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
The first rough draft of history or legend - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
A broken testimony, the history of a world dissolving - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Gentle history of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"
Arranged by impossible history - Edwin Torres "Sutra"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The ending of my history of grief - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson
Observe history in your eyes - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Pulling history towards these feet - Divya Victor "Threshold"
Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"
The mesmerizing wake of History - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
In prophecies beaten by the wheels of history - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
To scrape off the layers of history - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"
To make the halting history much longer - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
How history does not wash away - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"
The first time we drowned in history - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"
As if to contemplate the history of beans - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"
History and future test one another - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
A shared sense of how to exhaust history - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"
Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The historical atrocity of cotton - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"
The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""
Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
Each gap a prehistoric horizon - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"
In the sinister caverns of howling prehistory - Pablo Neruda "Election in Chimborongo (1947)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
