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Hello readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Slope of the Child Everlasting by Laurie Kutchins. The Light We Winter Under December again. all year a dry weeping took up residence—a corridor, a dim boarding house, rooms with small white sinks where a girl lived until she could not. I came to womanhood not feeling a thing. Like a strong dream, winter light is the fiercest of the year. It arrives late and after everything, it disappears as it wakes you. A letter put off...

Hello readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Gratitude by poet, translator, and publisher Sam Hamill. Sam passed away earlier this year at his home in Anacortes, WA. He was 74. Salutation, Late Autumn, 1991 It is late afternoon, the beginning of the darkest month of the year, evening trembling in the shadows. I stroke the fire, heat a small pot of sake, and open for the first time Bashō's Narrow Road to the Interior fresh from the printer.             ...

Hello readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Walking the Dog's Shadow by Deborah Brown. A Family Story Like that mouse who clung to the cabin wall by its pale, delicate nails, its shapely knuckles curved tight, and then its tail flicking side to side like a tongue over its plump thumb of a body, as if joining the argument, clawing its way up, swaying until, in the morning, the soft collapsed body of the mouse, stuck half in, half out of the wall, as...

Happy Thanksgiving, Dear Readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week poem is a special selection from the anthology Appetite: Food as Metaphor, edited by Phyllis Stowell and Jeanne Foster. We are ever grateful for the passion, the community, and the generosity of our readers, authors, board members, and supporters. We invite you to share your passion and generosity with our community this week by sharing your favorite Thanksgiving poems on social media this week with the hashtag #PoetryGratitudes. Family Reunion By Maxine Kumin The week in August you come home,...

Hello readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. In honor of Veterans Day, this week's poem is from Hugh Martin's brand new collection, In Country. Stay tuned to the BOA Blog for an exclusive interview on with Hugh Martin about his new book tomorrow. Service  Bright with light, the flagripples on the Jumbotronas they ask those who’ve servedto stand. Stand to behonored. Stand for us to showour appreciation. Please,stand. Come on, stand,my friend Sal says. So I standwith other men who standin ball caps & button-up jerseysin the many sections...