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“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses—for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it.” -Herman Melville

I’m going to braid my hair
Braid many colors into my hair
I’ll put a long braid in my hair
And write your name there

-Tracy K. Smith

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The pulled-apart world scatters
its bad news like a brush fire,
the ink bleeds out the day’s undoing
and here we are again: alive.

-Ada Limón

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“In a Show of Defiance, I Wet My Pants” and the 20 Other Best Lines of 2013 Monday: Slate staffers pick their favorite books of 2013. Tuesday: The overlooked books of 2013. Wednesday: The best lines of 2013, and the best poetry of 2013. Thursday: Dan Kois’ 15 favorite books. Friday: The Slate Book Review Top 10. The past, hey no s**t, it’s an open invitation to wine abuse.…

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Laying Blame: The Legacy of Sylvia Plath- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Two years ago at Bennington College, I taught a course on the work of Sylvia Plath. I created the course in response to student requests and also because I had been thinking about Plath and talking about her with other poets and readers for years. In...

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I accept your mouth
the way I absently accept a pen between my teeth.
It is what I do when I lack the words
for what is evident but buried, needs unearthing.

-Sasha L. Kicha

I've been sending these words your way
as one would loose a dark and tightly woven braid,
freeing the hair to take flight
upon the wind.

-Daisy Zamora

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It’s Time to Kill the Email Signoff For the 20 years that I have used email, I have been a fool. For two decades, I never called bulls**t when burly, bearded dudes from places like Pittsburgh and Park Slope bid me email adieu with the vaguely British “Cheers!” And I never batted an eye at the hundreds...

The page is not a deep wood
nor is it a wooded ravine
nor is it a log though it is a slight cavity
lined with moss and sometimes the leaves of your hair

-David Shapiro