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21 Jan “Healing” by Deborah Osborne

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

my friend told me how
for the last time, he brushed his
dying mother's long
Cherokee hair

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19 Jan Youth Unleashed: A Look Back at the 2023 Open Mic Season Finale by Zelda Abramovich

Posted at 11:37h in JBWC Youth Ambassador Program, Just Buffalo Writing Center, Young Writers

In November 2023, a wonderful group of almost 30 young writers, artists, and performers from Just Buffalo, GLYS, Teen Reality Theatre, and Dunbar Youth Theater Arts, kicked off the last JBWC Open Mic of the season with some incredible performances.

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14 Jan Excerpt from “Winter” by Mark Nowak

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Sedition has always been in the vocabulary. Like vampires. Like turkey.
vultures who swoop down upon a dead deer.

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07 Jan “To Say It” by Robert Creeley

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Just now at five
the light's caught the north
side of the trees next
door, the extensive

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31 Dec “i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind

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24 Dec “Evidence of Fire” by Jennifer Maloney

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Unbuckle, unzip, undo, while what is sweet in you
transmutes to salt, preserves these fugitive kisses,
fills my mouth with ocean, stings
where I have bitten my tongue.

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17 Dec “The Spaciousness of Dark” by Susan Dworski Nusbaum

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

It’s easy to feel crowded, when daylight reveals
stains on the upholstery, piles of unfinished papers,
flowers in need of tossing. Even the hiss of water

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10 Dec Two Poems by Justin Karcher

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Dobby dying in Harry’s arms from a fatal knife attack
and after his last words I go back to slurping my soup

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03 Dec “I Stand, Quietly” by Perry S. Nicholas

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

I stand, quietly, witness
you crossing the footbridge
in the old park where almost no one
dares walk alone anymore.

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02 Dec Blood Rummage by Jonah Ruddock

Posted at 09:54h in JBLC Fellowships, Just Buffalo Writing Center, Young Writers, Youth Fellow Projects, Youth Fellowships, Youth Publications

Presenting a selection of pieces from Blood Rummage by 2023 JBWC Youth Fellow Jonah Ruddock, who explores how a microplastic traverses a wilderness of waste and decay. "Remember: everything is touching everything else, and everyone is lying to you."

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