You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Review by Oona Metz
Publisher: Astria/One Signal Publishers
Publication Date: 11 April 2023
ISBN: 1982185856
Pages: 320
Vulnerability, Strength ...
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Review by Oona Metz
Book Reviews, LAR Online
a hawk circles the air above me—defying
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has its own aches—you’re too
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they say i carry
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Anshu Coehla is a poet from Jharkhand, India.
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Eventually, people grew out of people.
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People thinking their complexities
................into mush. People performing kind acts
in bad ...
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A Poem for Painters Conceptual Artists
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The hand bereft.
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I look for grief, or mischief.
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Long before I moved into my current neighborhood where people push tiny dogs around in baby strollers, I lived amongst the bottom of the barrel. I was young then. Now, whenever I pass Moss Park by streetcar, I’d ...
Stupid Beautiful Days by Annie Zhu
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