TO APPLY: The deadline for applications is July 3, 2022. Please submit a cover letter, resume, professional writing sample, and 2-3 references via this link. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please plan to apply early. No calls please. Position...
Andrew Cherif
Disability Justice Folio
For the last two years, Mass Poetry has been bringing you the “Hard Work of Hope,” a series of poems from members of our community that tell the story of the pandemic and all its ripple effects in our lives. But we cannot tell the full story without hearing from...
6/21: Hard Work of Hope Event
Save the Date: 6/21/22 (Time TBD) Since the pandemic began, we have been collecting poems from our community about what we've all been living through. What we thought would be a moment, became a month, became years. "The Hard Work of Hope" poetry series ended up more...
Robert Knox’s “What the Earth is Like” and Roselyn Kubek’s “Necessity”
The Earth Is Like By Robert Knox “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart” – Rilke, The Songs of Orpheus, No. 21 The earth is like a younger brother,who follows his sun around, copying his ways, rising from the ground...
Angelo Mao’s “The Portuguese Man-of-War” and Frannie Lindsay’s “The Rabbits of Upland Road”
Portuguese Man-of-War Angelo Mao is not a real creature, being madefrom a collusion of organismsunder one sail. Nevertheless, its tentacles can reachthree times a grown man’s height,dangling so far that one cannot seetheir ends, because sea-water, by that depth,...
William Tilleczek’s “The Idea of Eleanor” and Carolyn Cushing’s “Messenger”
The Idea of Eleanor William Tilleczek Hail, corner-rounder and surpriseUnder the table! We are your luck,You ours. We await even your hiccups:There is nothing to prove. Every radiantLove is in your face, now forming atIts break-neck pace each day. We waitTo hail you,...