Newark Poems - Poems about Newark

...Someone’s dream Maple wood baskets Slick and smooth Decorated with frilly cottons In floral, shaped like ruffled headbands Longaberger basket, making a name for herself Her seven-story building......Read the rest...

...In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a d......Read the rest...

...*last winter break* I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic bag over my hea......Read the rest...

...Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city himself and ha......Read the rest...

...TRAIN – 1958 On a warm summer evening at North Philadelphia Station the 6:19 on track three, the "Spirit of Saint Louis-Limited" from Penn Station New York, Newark and Trenton bound for Thirt......Read the rest...

...Officer Gwendolyn Becker - a “newbie” - at Newark P. D. down in 'Joizey', was combin’ the streets for a couple o’ thieves who’d been holdin’ up stations and stores... When - back in an alle......Read the rest...

...Interview with The Dead Boy -Raymond Mizsak So Raymond, do you know what happened to you? Why you died? Yeah, I know what happened to me, man, but I don’t remember it happening, Cause I was......Read the rest...

...I Dont Give A Fig About The Brouhaha... of new year's eve, yet yours truly does consider at least one singular plum me facet by Jeeve er...Robert (or Rabbie) Burns, a profoundly poignant poem, h......Read the rest...

...I recently wrote a poem, but I was afraid it might upset modern sensibilities. So, to be safe, I sent it to the Feminist Union of Caring and Kindness, the Committee for Using Nuanced Terminology, an......Read the rest...

...Looking back on those tumultuous summers from nineteen sixty-five through sixty-eight: Recalling Harlem and Newark Detroit and Chicago Watts and even LA-- Young folks have asked me,......Read the rest...

...At Newark Airport, Christie* tried A quicker way to get inside, Expecting they would let him slide; Alas, though, entrance was denied. The V.I.P. line he’d once used, When cockiness from him j......Read the rest...

...Nicoletta Nunez announces noon and nightly news Silvia De Silva sends the news at six and seven Nunez is in Newark with De Silva in Seattle Between them both, better bet there is broadcast battle ......Read the rest...

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan for David Attoe Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’ Wittgenstein in Zettel laissez pendre la ......Read the rest...

...…before us ( for Sweet Honey in the Rock ) By ‘bro.zayid’ “We will not bow down to Racism… “We will not bow down to Injustice… “We will not bow down to Exploitation!... “I’m gon’ staaaand......Read the rest...

...killing her song (for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*) by ‘bro. zayid’ “I'm gonna stay on the battlefield “I'm gonna stay on the battlefield “I'm gonna stay on the battlefield, Unti......Read the rest...