Yesterday Small Voices
By Donna Spruijt-Metz. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Mary Oliver has died at 83. …
![Photograph of Mary Oliver sitting at a table in her home, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond [1930s] Eileen Agar 1899-1991 Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar in 1989 and transferred from the photograph collection in 2012. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/TGA-8927-12-215-1](http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mary-oliver-4-480x384.jpg)
Yemeni Child
By Buff Whitman-Bradley. "The little starving girl has a house inside her chest filled with lambent light..." …
Devil Winds
By Debbie Hall. Three months after the historic Camp Fire, all the names of the dead are yet to settle. …
The Far Side of the Moon
By Donna Doyle. "After you die, the news goes on without your commentary..." …
America’s Covenant
By Marya Zilberberg. "We cry. We rejoice. Our mouths caress the names of our dead." …
Yellow Bridge
By Clare Welsh. Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller has died at 26. …
Requiem
By Lynn M. Knapp. On John McCain's funeral rites. …
Dr. Richter’s Obituary
By Pesach Rotem. A poet reads the obituary of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. …
The Paris Accord
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. On his birthday, a poetic farewell to the late John Ashbery. …
Ringing Out
By Alexandra Donovan. A shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette left five dead, including journalist Wendi Winters. …