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Poems Submitted for April 9, 2021

  1. (Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures
  2. High Stakes Culture Series
  3. Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop
  4. High Stakes Art
  5. Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture
  6. Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
  7. Norman Freehling Visiting Professorship
  8. Past Programs & Projects
    1. Humanities Without Walls
    2. 2022 HWW Career Diversity Workshop
    3. 2022 Poetry Blast!
    4. Octavia Butler Week
    5. 2021 Poetry Blast!
      1. Prompt a Poem!—A Daily April Poetry Challenge
      2. English Translations
      3. 2021 Poetry Blast Prompt a Poem Submissions
      4. Poems Submitted for April 1, 2021
      5. Poems Submitted for April 2, 2021
      6. Poems Submitted for April 5, 2021
      7. Poems Submitted for April 6, 2021
      8. Poems Submitted for April 7, 2021
      9. Poems Submitted for April 8, 2021
      10. Poems Submitted for April 12, 2021
      11. Poems Submitted for April 9, 2021
      12. Poems Submitted for April 13, 2021
      13. Poems Submitted for April 14, 2021
      14. Poems Submitted for April 15, 2021
      15. Poems Submitted for April 16, 2021
      16. Poems Submitted for April 19, 2021
      17. Poems Submitted for April 20, 2021
      18. Poems Submitted for April 21, 2021
      19. Poems Submitted for April 22, 2021
      20. Poems Submitted for April 23, 2021
      21. Poems Submitted for April 26, 2021
      22. Poems Submitted for April 27, 2021
      23. Poems Submitted for April 28, 2021
      24. Poems Submitted for April 29, 2021
      25. Poems Submitted for April 30, 2021
    6. The Humanities at Work
    7. 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments
    8. 2017-18 Year of Archives & Futures
    9. 2016-17 Year of Humanities & Public Policy
    10. 2015-16 Year of Conversions
    11. Early Modern Conversions Project
    12. MCubed Humanities Projects
    13. 2023 Humanities Afrofutures

Where will you be in two years—be as optimistic or pessimistic as you like. Return the note written to you yesterday, to the person who wrote to you, describing the place you are in as much sensory detail as possible.

Life Lessons

My knuckles are white holding on tight
Your whole life I have kept you healthy or as safe as I could
Now you are in control and I can only hope your skills are good
Look out! <-> Don’t shout
As we are moving and talk
I think - I should walk
It’s not so far that we needed the car
I sigh through my strife
I know it’s just life
This too I will survive, your learning to drive.

Foraging
By Aiden Ramirez-Tatum

I once imagined this house with you
I thought, a house with many rooms,

I pictured, a house with pea-green walls
I crafted handfuls, tornados, squalls,

And I thought that you'd be here with me.

(—and instead; Ozarks, pines, and the river:
a tall tall man outstretched forever)

I crush hickory nuts on a log
I walk in the dewy morning, maybe a dog

and I feel your absence.

Mourning
By S. Atticus O.

mmmmmmmmm mmmmmm cawmmm

Good morning, Crow
                               Good morning, Crane.
Any dreams tonight?
                                    A few, and you?
Another letter - years ago.
                                   Might my name?
O, yes, little bird, your scrawl.
                                       Where it flew?
From?
                                            Yes. You?
Home.
                                                   O.
Crow?
                                                Crane?
I’m sorry.
                               I know.
                          Me too.
                       I know

Dear—

I have searched and searched and still
I have not found him. Not as you describe. You
now on a calved slick of ice, in your chair,
sailing somewhere alone. The thread
of your voice turns skyward, into a scrawl
of cirrus that will soon
cross the sky over the backyard
where I stand, chiseling
ice.
               It’s February.
               You overhead in your
chariot, riding the cloud circuit, administer
the cure.