Quite Excellent

Read by Lydon

Poem translated by Clare Cavanagh

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Read by Lydon

Photo by Zuzanna Chromiec on Scop.io

Read by Zoe Malia Luz

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Read by Steven Potts

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My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters
José Olivarez

we are gathered in truce
because my therapist said
it was time to stop running, 

& i pay my therapist too much
to be wrong, so i am here.
my m…

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters
José Olivarez

we are gathered in truce
because my therapist said
it was time to stop running, 

& i pay my therapist too much
to be wrong, so i am here.
my m…

The Facebook Sonnet
By Sherman Alexie

Welcome to the endless high-school
Reunion. Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let’s undervalue and unmend

The present. Why can’t we pretend
Ev…

01:32 - Michael DuBon reads his poem, “In the Wash”

03:30 - Extended conversation with Michael on student analysis

17:28 - Michael answers student questions

“Instructions on Not Giving Up”
Ada Limón

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-color…

Michael DuBon
“In the Wash”

Arms deep, filth-clad, toilet toil: working at The Ski Tahoe Resort.
Scrubbing this mess of spiders, disposing the cast off suppositories.
the tracks of geriatric indulgence.

W…

Anne Stevenson
“The Victory”

I thought you were my victory
though you cut me like a knife
when I brought you out of my body
into your life.

Tiny antagonist, gory,
blue as a bruise. The stains
of your cloud …

Marilyn Nelson
“Asparagus”

He taught me how to slurp asparagus:
You hold it in your fingers, eat the stem
by inches to the tender terminus,
then close your eyes and suck in the sweet gem.
First, cook it i…