This poem originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. Kelsey Lane Paterson is passionate about creativity, taking care of our…
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Category: Poetry
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…
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Watch and Read the Winning Tom Lee Poetry Contest Works
Tom Lee Poetry Contest Winners On Friday, May 6, 2022, the Memphis River Parks Partnership recognized the winners of the inaugural Tom Lee Poetry and…
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More than She, Her, Hers: A Poem
More than She, Her, Hers Jeanine Jones More than hips thighs heartache and cries Fallopian tubes silk stocking, shaved legs ovaries and eggs Petite purses…
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Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing: A Tom Lee Poem
Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing By Jeanine Jones No walking on water or calming the sea Though, like the savior, he stretched his hands to thee…
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Withers Work Will Never Wither
Withers Work Will Never Wither By Jeanine Jones They say a picture is worth 1000 words His are worth more than 1 million before the…
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Penning, Printing and Pressing On: The Ida B. Wells Statue
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 22-23. Penning, Printing and Pressing On There’s nothing civil about…
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January: A Poem
Swirling thoughts threaten my joy. Burnout: groceries, again; cooking, again; backpacks, again; that minivan with doors that slide: forward, back; forward, back; forward, back; again.…
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August is coming
Talk to the heat A poem by Michael B. Conway Talk to the heat; it’ll make madness seem sane.Listen to it screech cicada screamsat straw…
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Confederate Square
By Michael B. Conway A pyramid of cannonballs beneath a naked flagpole, as bees drink Coca Cola from a green glass bottle stem, Salvation Army…
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