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Terese Coe


Nine Hundred in a Locked-Up Box

Beautiful Wylie, mystical dead,
the redhead full of penance
whom young Millay was quick to praise,
and Woolf was quick to menace.

Now their writing trumps their eyes.
Our Dickinson, the wisest,
hid her poems in a box,
her grove of grave disguises.

Nine hundred poems in a box,
and this her locked-up hoard.
Nine hundred found when she was dead:
her echo and her sword.



Seeing Saint Thérèse

The surgeon is glum: The ankle's a critical point.
You need a pin, a steel and silicon screw
to keep the bone in place. It's a ball-bearing joint.

The woman wheels herself to the twilight blue
sky by the wooden saint in the hospital hall,
who stands with wooden roses over the candles
that play on her tempera gaze and Tuscan shawl.
The paint is dark with age. In Carmelite sandals
in this ward of Saint Thérèse, so like a crypt,
she stands in brown, chromatic, sepia-lipped,
when something near her hooded chestnut hair
stirs. She lifts and bends two fingers, incandescent.
Mirage or blessing, the landscape of despair
called Earth and bone and flesh is evanescent.

































AUTHOR BIO

Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Agenda, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, New American Writing, 32 Poems, Nimrod, Measure, Threepenny Review, Orbis, and Poetry Nottingham, among numerous others, and her first collection of poems, The Everyday Uncommon, won a Word Press publication prize and was published in 2005.

POETRY CONTRIBUTORS

Tiel Aisha Ansari
B. J. Buckley
Terese Coe
Carol Dorf
Jehanne Dubrow
Nicole Caruso Garcia
Ona Gritz
Kathryn Jacobs
Allison Joseph
Susan McLean
Marilyn Nelson
Janice D. Soderling
Shanna Powlus Wheeler
Marly Youmans

FEATURED ARTIST
Jane Sutherland: I choose subjects that I cherish, or that spring from deep rooted feelings, or that come to me intuitively--dogs, roses, cranes, an iconic work of sculpture; and I concentrate on the details and slightest disparities in color, tone and textures in order to show how extraordinary are things we think we know and take for granted. The process of painting for me is connected to the physical properties of the subject as well as to its meanings, associations, and memories.
ARCHIVES
LINKS
POETRY
32 Poems
The Academy of American Poets
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The Iowa Review
Light Quarterly
Modern American Poetry
Measure
The Poem Tree
Poetry
Poetry Daily
Poetry Society of America
Poets House
Raintown Review
Slate
String Poet
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Verse Daily
Women's Poetry Listserv
The Yale Review

CONFERENCES
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Poetry by the Sea
Sewanee


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