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Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog

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By Kaveh Akbar, Diane Seuss, Wayne Miller, Max Ritvo
| Poem-a-Day
Find and share the perfect poems. There is a tumor in my sacroiliac joint and snowflakes in my coffee. I’m in Iowa with the cats and you’re in Pompeii. You send a video: lizards rushing into limestone which remind you of being a kid in Florida. In Florida we memorized sonnets while leaping around green anoles. I’ve forgotten the poems. Your black tights, even in that heat. Mostly that’s what I remember. It’s okay to say it straight. Like: I’m scared, still, that I might be dying.
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Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

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By Max Ritvo, Sarah Ruhl, Madeline A. Potter, Jane Smith
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Sarah Ruhl. S&S/Rucci, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3496-5 Playwright and essayist Ruhl (Smile) provides a heartfelt reflection on her life’s many teachers. Adapted from her Yale course of the same name, the book was also inspired by Ruhl’s desire to break away from doomscrolling, which yields “few answers... only very loud opinions.” In short essays, she recaps lessons in the “powerful art of listening” from Gloria Steinem and on how to make the best sunny-side up egg from her grandfather.
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You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way

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By Elizabeth Barnett, Max Ritvo, June Jordan, John Rybicki
| Poem-a-Day
Elizabeth Barnett teaches at Rockhurst University, where she directs the Midwest Poets Series and is the faculty editor of the Rockhurst Review and Rockhurst Reader. She lives in San Antonio, Texas. sign up for poem-a-day Receive a new poem in your inbox daily Email Address About This Poem “For a while, I was driving four hours from Kansas City to St. Louis to see a doctor, which felt both absurd and necessary. I would look for signs along the way. Once, there was a blizzard.
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