Below Buffalo Willows
Give us a kiss. Goodbye, dear. The buffalo willows were full of hurt, and then the fire died. Kiss...
Read MoreGeorge Kalamaras, Poet Laureate of Indiana, is the author of seven books of poetry and seven chapbooks, including The Mining Camps of the Mouth (2012), winner of the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011), winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize, and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (on two occasions), Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Letters, North American Review, and many other anthologies and journals. He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
by George Kalamaras | Jun 24, 2014 | Poetry | 0
Give us a kiss. Goodbye, dear. The buffalo willows were full of hurt, and then the fire died. Kiss...
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I promised I couldn’t write away the violence of guns, though I’d try. No one can right what’s...
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Morning headlines confide, “Anchor breaks down over verdict,” “Anniston flaunts bikini bod,”...
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That dream again where Yuan Mei and I are brothers, then married to one another, though not...
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I don’t recall the town’s name, Sue, though it likely had Colorado’s best café pie. Mary Ann and I...
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