“Po-re-li” is undergoing renovations. Nothing big. Something little to make it easier to post. You won’t have to wait long.

“Beauty,” Warsan Shire (Born 01 August 1988 in Nairobi, Kenya).

“Not Getting Closer,” by Jack Gilbert (Born 18 Feb 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, died 13 Nov 2012 in Berkeley, California, United States).

“To the One Upstairs,” by Charles Simic (Born 09 May 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, died 09 Jan 2023 in Dover, New Hampshire, USA)

“The End of the World,” by Archibald MacLeish (Born 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, USA, died 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA).

“[Sonnet] You Jerk You Didn't Call Me Up,” by Bernadette Mayer (Born 12 May 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., died 22 Nov 2022 in East Nassau, New York, U.S.).

“Recreation,” by Wendell Berry (Audre Lorde (Born 18 Feb 1934 in NYC, New York, USA, died 17 Nov 1992 in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands).).

“They Sit Together on the Porch,” by Wendell Berry (born 5 August 1934 near Port Royal in Henry County, Kentucky, U.S.).

“To A Dark Moses, by Lucille Clifton (Born 27 June 1936 in Depew, New York, USA, died 13 February 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

“Herring, by Glenn Shaheen (Born in 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).

“The Applicant, Sylvia Plath (Born 27 Oct 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; died 11 Feb 1963 in London, England). I was two years old. LOL.

“White canes bend at two places, like fingers” by Rethabile Masilo (Born on 20 June 1961 in Morija, Lesotho).

“If This Life Is All We Have” by Dennis Brutus (Born 28 Nov 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia [now Harare, Zimbabwe], died 26 Dec 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa)

“Sardinia” by Bruce Hunter (Born 1952 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada).

“The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls…” by Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings, born on 14 Oct in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, died on 3 Sept, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire.

“The Sisters of Sexual Treasure” by Sharon Olds (Born 19 November 1942 in San Francisco, California, USA).

“Ars Poetica” by Blaga Dimitrova (Born 02 January 1922 in Byala Slatina, Bulgaria, died 02 May 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria).

“Bachata” by Geoffrey Philp (Born on 14 March, 1958, in Kingston, Jamaica)

“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes (Born 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, USA, died 22 May 1967 in New York City, New York, USA)

“Like an Avalanche” by Caleb Braun (Born 1988 in Iowa, USA).