“Define in, I say when anyone asks/ if I’ve ever been in a war…”
Poem of the Week (February 8), by Hala Alyan.
“They woke to find an angel on the beach/ as heavy as the bottom of the sea,/ as dark as boulders locked in frozen lakes…”
Weekend poem, by Adham Smart.
“This blonde and grey-eyed woman,/ her fingers combing a prisoner’s hair/ in a barn, a field, a hidden somewhere/ in that wartime summer.” Poem of the Week (August 31), by Harold Hoefle.