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Category: Poetry

Poetry

Wolf River: A Poem

Kelsey Lane Paterson November 1, 2022 No Comments Wolf River

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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Literature Poetry

Ida B. Wells

Elaine Blanchard July 14, 2022 No Comments Downtown MemphisIda B. WellsIda B. Wells statuepoetrypublic art

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

Caroline Carrico May 6, 2022 No Comments Memphis River Parks PartnershippoetryTom Lee

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

Jeanine Jones March 8, 2022 No Comments poetryWomen

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

Jeanine Jones February 24, 2022 No Comments Memphis HistorypoetryTom Lee

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

Jeanine Jones February 17, 2022 1 Comment Ernest C Witherspoetry

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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Literature Poetry

Penning, Printing and Pressing On: The Ida B. Wells Statue

Jeanine Jones February 10, 2022 1 Comment Downtown MemphisIda B. Wellspoetrypublic art

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

Candace Echols February 2, 2022 No Comments poetry

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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Literature Poetry

August is coming

Michael B. Conway July 22, 2021 No Comments AugustHeatMemphis heat

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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Literature Poetry

Confederate Square

Michael B. Conway June 18, 2021 No Comments Forrest StatueNathan Bedford Forrest

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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