Search

Presents the prose poem "Child Soldier, II," by Major Jackson. First Line: "We always kicked for the same team. Last Line: ...a collection of faces like smoking embers."

Presents the prose poem "The Royal Mara," by Major Jackson. First Line: The UNHCR Somali driver speeds by a small herd... Last Line: Two nonchalant giraffes glided by like war profiteers.

The poem "Where Scars Reside" by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: January, 10 kilometers southwest of Oaxaca City, smack dab in the middle of the; Last Line: the emptiness, all the blood and grieving spilled over the Earth.

Presents the poem "Rose Colored City," by Major Jackson. First Line: When Jennifer and I; Last Line: to our segregated lives.

Presents the poem "Bum Rush," by Major Jackson. First Line: Dinner at Time Café, Last Line: intoning offerings from a remorseless god.

Presents the poem "Colette's," by Major Jackson.

Presents the poem "Moose," by Major Jackson.

The poem "Washington Square Park," by Major Jackson, is presented. First Line: When all that cautions the eyes toward the immanent; Last Line: like an era held aloft and spiraling towards its needled end.

The poem "Ode to Mt. Philo," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: After avocado-colored inclines, after dawdling ascents; Last Line: we traveled through emerald, glitter, and beam.

The poem "XXV. Salobrena" by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: That stretch of mountains features white windmill; Last Line: and bomb this beach, launching sprays of white duds.

The article presents an image of a seagull created by artist Alex Katz, as well as the poem "On Cocoa Beach" by Major Jackson. First Line: I am revisiting the idea of Florida, giving my vertebrae; Last Line: I will give myself to the great battles of clouds and surfs.

The poem "Full Frontal Management," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: A time not quite long gone, when cubicles; Last Line: was fadistic and meretricious. Go ask your glass eye.

Presents the poem "Creationism," by Major Jackson. First Line: I gave the bathtub purity and honor, and the sky; Last Line: vanity lights their surprised look of frightened envy.

Presents the poem "After Riefenstahl," by Major Jackson. First Line: The screen's fabrications remain. A film; Last Line: my love, flicker in a cathedral of terror?

The poem "My Face in the ATM Screen," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: O the camera that lies in wait; Last Line: it is my hour to bottle the monarchs.

The poem "When You Go Away," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: I stand by a water cooler. Its upside-down; Last Line: suddenly in daylight. So torture the gods.

The poem "Speaking East Coast," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: As if hypnotized by the illicit pleasure; Last Line: now thundering than ever before.

The poem "Immanence," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: My own jury acquitted my inner savage, Last Line: I tossed her on my bed and kept still.

Presents the poem "Periplum," by Major Jackson. First Line: The notion that the land gave us flying, Last Line: eminently readable mustache: graspable yet airborne.

Presents the poem "Quaff," by Major Jackson. First Line: Notable the covert spring of anger trickling, Last Line: onto the breakdown lane and drank deep.

Presents the poem "Forecast," by Major Jackson. First Line: Whichever way our shoulders move, there's joy. Last Line: This is the year I'll contemplate the fire-fangled sky.

Presents the poem "Leave It All Up to Me," by Major Jackson. First Line: All we want is to succumb to a single kiss; Last Line: and park benches? She says, "Leave it all up to me."

Presents the poem "Myth," by Major Jackson. First Line: I was born scarcely before autumn full of night songs— Last Line: and lit my darkened throat.

Presents the poem "Life During Wartime," by Major Jackson. First Line: But the daydream collapses and time returns us; Last Line: the wrist of a boy, running through a cloud of rubble.

This article offers a commentary for the poem "Pilgrimage" by W. F. Lantry.

The poem "The Chase," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: "What are you thinking?" she said. "Falling pheasants." Last Line: of feathers." he said. "You are lost." she said.

The poem "Going to Meet the Man," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: As if one day, a grand gesture of the brain, an expired; Last Line: on the other: a cocktail of fire, all that is just and good.

The poem "I Had the Craziest Dream," by Major Jackson is presented. First Line: Never on Sunday she said and brandished; Last Line: up, proving they could hammer in the morning.

The article presents the poem "Rose Colored City," by Major Jackson. First Line: When Jennifer & I; Last Line: our separate lives.

The article presents the poem "Aubade," by Major Jackson. First Line: Beyond the limits of myself, there is you, a wind-wave; Last Line: Whichever way your shoulder moves, there's joy.

The article presents the poem "Mondes en Collision," by Major Jackson. First Line: To the question of history's tectonic drift, Last Line: Recognizable texts out of our celestial holes.

The article presents the poem "White Power," by Major Jackson. First Line: As it happened, I was twirling a cauliflower floret, Last Line: You've your own hourglass and no one else to blame.

The article presents the poem "Picketing," by Major Jackson. First Line: For I was born, too, in the stunted winter of History. Last Line: Let me call your name; the ground here is soft & broken.

Presents the poem "Chase," by Major Jackson. First Line: After cold-cuts; Last Line: down never looking back.

Presents the poem "Feeling Very Sid," by Major Jackson. First Line: A corpse snores in morning traffic. Last Line: From my youth.

Presents the poem "From Urban Renewal."