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Rachel Levy | rlevy

Member since Dec 31, 1969

Rachel's favorite poems on Swindle (155) (rss)

• “Home Visit: Jenny” by Jennifer Perrine

• The Upstairs Notebook, Erika Meitner

• Good God

• “To the Young Man Who Cried Out ‘What Were You Thinking?’ When I Backed into His Car” by Lynne Knight

• “Model Prison Model” by Terrance Hayes

• Something Jotted Down

• The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice” by Alison Townsend

• Lies

• Practice, Shirley Stephenson

• Perennial, Laura Van Prooyen

• Spoon to the Sky

• Three Poems

• To Question a Corpse

• Blood Memory | V. Penelope Pelizzon

• "Swearing by Effingham" and "I'm Charlie Tuna" by Jason Koo

• "Monkey Heart" by Ben Mirov

• Elizabeth Spires reads You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country

• Robert Hass - Four Poems

• “A Good Bad Day” by Tony Gloeggler

• 7 to 46th Street/Bliss: a poem by KC Trommer

• Dorianne Laux reads Moon in the Window

• February | Margaret Atwood

• “Porn” by Christopher Kempf

• “Off Duty At Bare Exposures Gentlemen Club” by Eric Lee

• “Driving Under the Full Wolf Moon” by Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody

• Requiem for the Orchard | Oliver de la Paz

• Table

• EMPTYING TOWN

• The Thrift Shop Dresses

• “Lips” by Lyn Lifshin

• Housing Shortage

• “An Ordinary Orderly” by Laurie B. Ludmer

• Better to say Now

• The Museum of Desires

• “Homeschool Fieldtrip, 2nd Grade” by Prairie L. Markussen

• How to Photograph the Heart

• The Question

• The More Loving One

• Fourteen Final Lines by J. Allyn Rosser

• Inheritance

• “Crossing the Gap” by Travis Mossotti

• “Miserable” by Dave Newman

• Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket by Matthew Guenette

• My Mother's Sari

• “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann

• The Man Who Looks Lost as He Stands in the Sympathy Card Section at Hallmark by Matthew Olzmann

• Saturday Night with Self

• One Hundred and Eighty Degrees

• "Last Will" by Hayden Saunier

• The Blade of Nostalgia - Chase Twichell

• Elegy for the Personal Letter by Allison Joseph

• “Around the Corner of Midnight” by Lorraine Merrin

• Google Earth

• "Early Morning on Market Street," "The Mortician in San Francisco" and "The End of Landscape" by Randall Mann

• I Never Knew When I Arrived In This Country

• "Eat" by Arra Lynn Ross

• Voices from the Corners of the Sky

• “And After” by Megan O’Reilly

• Seasonal Anxiety

  For teachers (and students) everywhere.

• La Bouderie

  Lovely prose poem about girl and her single dad.

• With God in the Morning

  clever poem about faith, questioning faith

• “Aubade” by Pit Menousek Pinegar

  time passing, change, loss

• Ignatz Oasis by Monica Youn

• Blackbird | C. K. Williams

  war

• The Good Old Body - Peter Sears

  aging

• “Axiom of the Outside” by Virgil Suárez

• Kathleen Graber: “The Drunkenness of Noah.”

• “The Repetition of These Things” by John Pursley III

  mortality

• "Bluff" by Karyna McGlynn

• "Your Parents Were in Publishing" by Farrah Field

• National Poetry Month: Day 28. “How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance” by Nick Lantz

  marriage

• Last Days | Oliver de la Paz

  male adolescence

• Orbit

  motherhood

• “Narrow Openings” by Francesca Bell

• Two Poems

  climate change, oceans

• Mother's Home Ritual for Quenching Fires

• “Me and Joni” by Donna Reis

  music

• Julie Sheehan reads Brandy Stinger

• Cow Song | Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

  calf birth

• Sermon: New Orleans, 2003

• “In the Hospital Waiting” by Terry Martin

• "El Dorado (Goodbye, Utah)" by Rane Arroyo

  love poem, place, the West

• "The human capacity to stain cannot be overcome by Mr. Clean.".......................................................R

• Mother, Washing Dishes by Susan Meyers

• Clock Factory Near the River

• “Mammary” by Michelle Bitting

  partner processes breast cancer surgery

• I Have News for You by Tony Hoagland

• My Father's Loveletters

• You Can't Have It All | Barbara Ras

• The Rarest Thyme

• Frederick Seidel: “Downtown.”

• “Remember It Wrong” by David Hernandez

  memory

• The Room

• Stars

• Three Poems

  simplicity

• Steps to Remove Limitations

  war

• “Any Hack Can Crank Out a Hundred Sonnets” by Stephen Kessler

  writing process

• How it Adds Up

• “How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment” by Carolyn Creedon

  fem poem

• History Filled In

  grief

• Overweight

  reunion

• “To the Young Man…” by Lynne Knight

• “A Knack for Losing Things” by Paul Dickey

• "Waiting" by April Lindner

  modern medicine

• Justin Quinn: “Russian Girl on Pařížská.”

  sonnet

• Dana Goodyear: “Dormant”

• Lightning Bugs and the Pleiades

• Relax

  aging

• Bluebird

• Alterations: a poem by Michael Schmeltzer

• Two Poems

• Limits

• The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner

  time passing

• Bridge of Flowers

• Cabbage, a Love Song by Marcela Sulak

• “Nor Yet a Dream of War” by Ralph James Savarese

• Without Mercy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  war

• Metastasis, Boracay | Joanne Diaz

• Enlistment | Josh Kalscheur

• Eighty-Five

  aging

• A Day by the Numbers

  mothering

• Reading Billy Collins "The Names" with My Daughter

• Tonight what I need most

• Robert Wrigley: “I Like the Wind.”

• Poor Patriarch

• “Sparks” by Pamela Gemin

• Ideal Cities

• “Writer in Residence, Central State” by Douglas Goetsch

• Harvest

• Shooting the Horse | David Shumate

• False Documents

• “Storm News” to Jun de la Rosa

• Entering the Kingdom | Michael McGriff

• Landscape with Grief Train

• Lullaby

  parenthood

• Fireflies

• The Laws of Probability in Levittown

• “Student Found Dead in Dorm Room” by Lisa Krueger

• Testimonial........................

• The Poetry Section: Matthew Poindexter

• "To Dream Only of Bunnies," "Mr. Fibitz," and "Things That I Have Only One Of" by Aaron Belz

• “Visitation” by Michael Medrano

• When Autumn Came

• The Elusive Something

• The Pinnacle

• Flash Fires

• “From the Back Porch” by Sophia Orr

• "When We Were Rich," by Rachel Zucker

• “Alphabet of Boa” by Candace Pearson

• Phenomenal Woman

• Ghazal

• Working Their Mojo

• “When You’re Afraid…” by Gregory Orr

• Aboriginal

• “Detached Concern” by Jack Coulehan