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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1957, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was the place to be. Every room had view
Last Line: Little and laughing; came out twelve years later: %coat-and-tied, ready for work
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories


1958 FRUIT CUTTING SHED, by JENNIFER LAGIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's where I learned %about french kisses, cruising
Last Line: My fingers harden %strengthen and bleed
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ADOLESCENCE: 1, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In water-heavy nights behind grandmother's porch
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ADOLESCENCE: 1, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In water-heavy nights behind grandmother's porch
Last Line: Against a feathery sky
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ADOLESCENCE: 2, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ADOLESCENCE: 2, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting
Last Line: Night rests like a ball of fur on my tongue
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ADOLESCENCE: 3, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With dad gone, mom and I worked
Subject(s): Adolescence; Baby Boom Generation; Women; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENT RAG: GREECE, NEW YORK, 1981, by MICHELE SPRING-MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Get over it or die with it, we threw at those who scrutinized
Last Line: I thought it dreadful that someone dared look at us wrong
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room
Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Now can't we all get along?
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


AFTER THE SECOND MISCARRIAGE, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no guarantees in marrying doctors
Last Line: Under foot, our strong arms skimming %the water like loons
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


AFTERNOON IN THE WORLD, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember how the nuns %spit it out, hissing
Last Line: Lemon, watermelon, lime %and cherry, those lifesavers
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


AGE OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES, by KATE GLEASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I, being girls %wasted the better part
Last Line: That what words said %was what they meant
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


APOLLO, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: We pull off / to a road shack
Last Line: Even than we are
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


APOLLO, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We pull off %to a road shack
Last Line: Stranger, stranger %even than we are
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


APPLE, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holding your head
Last Line: Somehow always remember this
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Parents


APRON, by HOLLY IGLESIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If she wore one, she'd be at the strings with a vengeance
Last Line: Put their minks on your bed
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ATLANTIC CITY SNAPSHOT, 1944, by PAULA GOLDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight ladies walk arm in arm
Last Line: I'm in the picture
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANGEL, by SUSAN FIRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every may on the virgin's holyday
Last Line: To break over the whole goddamn village
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked
Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women


BARN SWALLOWS, by LAURA STEARNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surrounded by birch trees and sugar maples
Last Line: And the bunnell girl lying on her bed, staring %at the bluebell wallpaper suddenly grown old
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BASEMENT SLOW DANCING, by SUSAN FIRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have forgotten whose basement it was
Last Line: Dancing, perfectly, feeding the bodies forever %forecasts of one and another
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BIG SISTER SAYS, 1967, by KATHRYN DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beauty hurts, big sister says
Last Line: When you're not born beautiful
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BIRD OF PARADISE, by HARRIET LEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orange and purple fanning outward
Last Line: Unable to feel a thing %fixed around my father's neck
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BLUE MILK, by ANGELA JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then we went to bunny's house behind the church
Last Line: In the deep sinkings and returns %of their adam's apples
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BLUE THREAD, by ANNE RICHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She crushes his pajamas to her face
Last Line: To think, I am trying to think, I say %how to begin
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BOY, by MARIE HOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My older brother is walking down the sidewalk into the suburban summer night
Last Line: I was the girl. What happened taught me to follow him whoever he was %calling and calling his name
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BRIDAL RITES, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sniff for hot coals, search
Last Line: Watching for signs: the ancient moon %the she-wolf howling
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


BUTTERFLY, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thing I keep thinking is these young men
Last Line: The place where brown masks %protect the unbeautiful
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women


CATHOLICS, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In third grade all the girls got confirmed
Last Line: To your beautiful blessed mother in blue
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women


CHRISTMAS SHOW, by HARRIET LEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While my youngest sister lies
Last Line: Eyes swollen, having seen enough
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Christmas; Women


CLAIM, by DONNA MASINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally I just go down to bossa nova by the river
Last Line: Playing the boundary between failure and grace
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturday morning, motown / forty-fives and thick seventy-eights
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women


COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturday morning, motown %forty-fives and thick seventy-eights
Last Line: Something to last: patch of earth, %view of sky
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women


COMING OF AGE, by JUDITH HOUGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We skidded up in late afternoon to the lake cottage
Last Line: The sweetness raised in the pink lines of their hands
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


CONTRACT/1968, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: His towels %grace the floor
Last Line: I whisper. Somebody %help me
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


CRAVING, by DONNA HILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I broke the long stems
Last Line: Fine powder from a dark brown tin
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


CREATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: That march we were thirteen
Last Line: The loud love-making petals %every plant humming for release
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Girls


CROSSROADS, by JOYCE SUTPHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The second half of my life will be black
Last Line: And smoke going %upward, always up
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


CRYSTAL LAKE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught crawdads and let them go. Baited hooks with my
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


CRYSTAL LAKE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught crawdads and let them go. Baited hooks with my
Last Line: Caught, over fish who were as long as rainbows after the coming storm
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


DEATH COMES TO THE BABY BOOM, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire drills didn't get us ready, or bomb shelters
Last Line: As a black %hula hoop. Slip it over your head; you disappear
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Death


EAT, by CATHY SONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother is holding my infant son
Last Line: And with a bamboo rice stick paddle, %she slaps another help helping onto my plate
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ELAINE, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the photogrpahs %you're tan and slim
Last Line: That far from %your control
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FAITH, by ANGELA JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Longlegged boys leapt from rooftop to rooftop
Last Line: Full splits on a floor of dark air, each time a happy ending. %isn't that enough?
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of self service
Last Line: Is come close and touch me.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FATHER'S ADVICE, by LORI HORVITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're too lonely, that's why you can't sleep at
Last Line: Get married and get it over with
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FATIMA, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: God exists. Instead %we are a group of teenage girls, drunk
Last Line: Off a truck %and smashing into the street
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FEMINISM, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All over the world, little bees, star scouts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FEMINISM, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All over the world, little bees, star scouts
Last Line: Each missing face on the missing child poster %like the fairest of all looking into her mirror
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FIRST LESSONS, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I got up; a red shiner bloomed
Last Line: That the god shall never rise from their knees is my river-to-cross
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FIRST SNOW, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this car years ago. In this
Last Line: Not one star in that sky
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FIRST TIME, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old wives' tales didn't help
Last Line: We sunk to our knees, every time I let you in
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FIRST TIME I ALMOST MADE LOVE, by KATHRYN DUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was with you in a motel
Last Line: And wrecked the apartment, not even %when the boxes never came
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FIRST TV IN A MENNONITE FAMILY: 1968, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lid of the chevy trunk couldn't close
Last Line: Under his hotel window, and I knew whatever it was, %that vague, distant war had finally come
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FITNESS CLUB: RIDING THE LIFECYCLE, by JUDITH HOUGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The control panel counts time, calories, miles
Last Line: Daily and now has important places to go
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


FLASHBACK, 1973, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the car breaks down
Last Line: Seat of that hurt %all the way downtown
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Love; Retrospection; Teenagers


FOREST CREATURES, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to walk with you in the woods
Last Line: Waiting for me
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Parents


FOUR ON A FOLD, by PAULA SERGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some summer nights in the early sixties
Last Line: Before we realized %how little air we'd had
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


GETTING OUT OF WHERE WE CAME FROM, by DONNA MASINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in brooklyn
Last Line: They didn't know the house was built on a swamp
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


GRAMMAR OF SILK, by CATHY SONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On saturdays in the morning
Last Line: A pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


GRANDFATHER, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your eyes brushed me
Last Line: The loudest language you could give
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Memory


GROWING INTO MY NAME, by HARRIET JACOBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Worn like a hand-me-down
Last Line: By the side of the road
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Names; Women


HERSHEY'S, by JACKIE BARTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother carried a hershey bar with almonds
Last Line: The sweet thin flicker of memory like a promise %wrapped and waiting
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


HULA HOOP SUMMER, by JUDY BELSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone has one the summer I am eleven
Last Line: On a central axis %how hips defy gravity
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


I WISH I COULD TELL YOU, by KATHRYN DUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a war; there wasn't. People died
Last Line: We watched them, considered our fates
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ICE CABBAGES, by LAURA STEARNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seventeen when she fled estonia
Last Line: I want our mothers to drink this %until their stomachs are full
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


IF THIS IS SEX, IT MUST BE TUESDAY, by JAN BEATTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So it was every week on a tuesday
Last Line: Part of your heart, you couldn't %wish it right
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


IN LEVITTOWN, BEFORE HER MOTHER'S VANITY, by LIZ ABRAMS-MORELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wearing mama's hat, white crepe
Last Line: A new life can be pulled from a hat
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


IN WINTER SOMETHING INSIDE ME RETURNS AS TO A DARK GOD, by KATE GLEASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love his scent of must
Last Line: My mother warned me about %only more
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


INSTITUTIONAL BLUE, by ANN TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the welfare waiting room
Last Line: Voice: we won't end up like them. That sticks
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Relationships; Women


JANIS JOPLIN, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a song like a light
Last Line: Because it must not end, %because it never lasts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women


LAST BORGES, by MILLICENT C. BORGES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like god and his eve %you never passed on
Last Line: Son of a bitch. Son of a bitch
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


LAWN ORNAMENTS, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I stood in the charged air
Last Line: Of poppy pink and jam him upside down %in a bed of plastic roses
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


LEARNING OUR NAMES, by LAUREL MILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun anchors us to this spot, knows
Last Line: Flesh soft, sweet as pollen %in the throat of a lily
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


LET GO, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unfasten your belt. Let your stomach out
Last Line: Throw the bones in the air %and cut off your hair
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


LOOKING FOR GOD, by LONNIE HULL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a little girl, I marveled
Last Line: I was born again and again
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MAD RIVER, by JAN BEATTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two dollars and sixty-five cents
Last Line: I prayed for morning
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MARRYING THE STRANGER, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marrying the stranger %is like getting lost
Last Line: To give yourself away
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MORTAL SINS, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aldo palmieri straddles %the back seat of the schoolbus
Last Line: She tells me again & again %until one day, I am
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MOVIE QUEENS, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sisters cut them %from empty backdrops, propped them
Last Line: From the sky in a rage of beauty
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MY MOTHER MAKES ME A GEISHA GIRL, by DONNA MASINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is halloween. 1962. Brooklyn
Last Line: White paint smearing steamy shadows rolling %down mixing red blue black green
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME HOW TO BE POOR, by CATHLEEN CALBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the little things, like thrift-shopping
Last Line: Not expecting much but wanting everything
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, by SANDRA CISNEROS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my father
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, by SANDRA CISNEROS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my father
Last Line: I will turn out bad
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


NAMING, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born at the end %of the second world war
Last Line: By thinking only lovely %wonderful thoughts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


NEARING MENOPAUSE, I RUN INTO ELVIS AS SHOPRITE, by BARBARA CROOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near the peanut butter. He calls me ma'am, like the sweet
Last Line: Of flesh and time
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


NECROLOGY: 1929, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: One generation did not see them come
Last Line: Them all. He garnered in both wheat and tares.
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Fathers; Harvest


NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE: EXIT 14, by PATRICIA VALDATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dusk, from the hotel room
Last Line: Watching the turboprop accelerate %imagining the takeoff
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ON BEING BORN THE SAME EXACT DAY OF THE SAME EXACT YEAR AS BOY GEORGE, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb.
Last Line: But I can set it straight.
Subject(s): Birthdays; George, Boy (b. 1961); Baby Boom Generation; Women


ON BEING BORN THE SAME EXACT DAY OF THE SAME EXACT YEAR AS BOY GEORGE, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb
Last Line: Well, don't be alarmed. There has been %but I can set it straight
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ON THE EDGE OF THE FIELD, by KYOKO MORI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You knew it wasn't love but spring and grief
Last Line: Edge of light moves slow and patient over %water, scanning for marks of love
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


OTHER LANGUAGE, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grownups line their bodies
Last Line: But our eyes blink unsure %in the coming and present darkness
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


OUR FATHERS, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day joe brodie fell into the acid pit
Last Line: Like small boys print their names in dirt
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


PASSION WEEK, 1966, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sanctuary of fundamental no's
Last Line: Her rebukers, claiming a higher charity, %and suffered the woman to do it
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


PHILOSOPHER'S CLUB, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: After class thursday nights %the students meet at the philosopher's club
Last Line: The last thing they see as they enter the dark
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Bars And Bartenders; Women


POINTS OF NO RETURN, by JUDITH HOUGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the year elvis dies and delavan, wisconsin, finally
Last Line: I can't even picture, a new way to see this simple, endless field of my life
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


POLIO SUMMER, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Best was the invalid, so we took turns
Last Line: That day at the beach, suspended between two worlds
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, by DONNA HILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I learned about sex from freud and grace metalious
Last Line: That trailer truck barreling down %the highway toward them
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone seemed more american
Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country
Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women


RAGWEED, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first night I stayed at my reluctant boyfriend's apartment
Last Line: He said to call him back when I looked normal again
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


RAINY DAY, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can still close my eyes and open them four floors up
Last Line: On like the rest of us, this immense journey, for love, for rain
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


RAINY DAY, by JOY HARJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can still close my eyes and open them four floors up
Last Line: Rest of us, this immense journey, for love, for rain
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


RETURN TO TEMPTATION, by MARY E. WEEMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Melvin's dead. / a cloud-nine moves
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


RETURN TO TEMPTATION, by MARY E. WEEMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Melvin's dead. %a cloud-nine moves
Last Line: Return to %temptation
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, 1965, by KELLY SIEVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hot tunnels wound beneath the ground
Last Line: Hiding our hot %and steaming hearts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women


ROCKET TO RUSSIA (2), by ALISON STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I woke up with purple hair and paul
Last Line: A women asked if I'd been mugged
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


RUBBLE WOMEN, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stood for hours at a time
Last Line: Facing an empty sky
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Women


SARA'S DAUGHTERS, by CAROL DORF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're sara's daughters, middle-aged
Last Line: We long for an angel to hover over our beds
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SATELLITE FATHER, by JOSIE KEARNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she was no longer eleven, in her party
Last Line: A stage of the earth, at which nothing much %had yet begun to happen
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SCREEN TEST, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They don't make movies %like this anymore, mother would say
Last Line: Illuminated on screen %for the whole world to watch
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Motion Pictures; Women


SENIOR PICTURE, 1971, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take it all back %each dirty, lowdown thing I ever said
Last Line: One inside/outside beautiful %special girl
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SEX ED, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well-dressed, demure, jammed into those
Last Line: Her toss back her yellow hair and yank open %the heavy doors to school
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women


SIXTIES, by RITA RANDAZZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember them %which proves I didn't
Last Line: Riding the subway home
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SLEEPING OUT, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the new clover has sewn itself through
Last Line: Than a crushed impression in the grass
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought my father was a god
Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow.
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood


SMOKE, by ALISON TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew about your reputation
Last Line: Through the bright blond %garden of your hair
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SOUND FLYING INTO AND OUT OF MY EARS, by PAULA SERGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know if it's white, like the one
Last Line: Through my ears like ribbons in a weave of wanting
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


ST. PAUL STREET SEASONAL, by KATHY MANGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not the crocuses, sporadic
Last Line: Of his fingerless glove so grimy %it shines
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by JILL BIALOSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out
Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by JILL BIALOSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out
Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SUMMERTIME, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where we live there are caged peacocks
Last Line: Could bounce to the sky and stick
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SUNDAY MORNING, by JEANNE BRYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mama is blotting her red lipstick
Last Line: And purple is the color for the church %the color for royalty
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SUNWORSHIPPERS, by CATHY SONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look how they love themselves
Last Line: And fully formed, was a way of shining %out of this world
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


SUPPLIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I believed my stepmother hated me
Last Line: And explained how to soak %blood stains out in cold water
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


TAKING THE FENCES, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's how I lived
Last Line: To the dangerous fences %we always cleared
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


THE PLANET KRYPTON, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the window the mcgill smelter
Last Line: We could have anything we wanted.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Baby Boom Generation; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Women; Nuclear Freeze


THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling
Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women


TO MARY AT THIRTEEN, by JULIE KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: You taught me to bake
Last Line: Warmed air, and your hips %swaying in silky, slow circles
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


TOOLON HOSPITAL, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the stranger in the room
Last Line: And I am just beginning to understand
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Hospitals


TRAITOR, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What did that girl on the playground mean
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


TRAITOR, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What did that girl on the playground mean
Last Line: Nappy plaits, my skin %the same rough brown
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


TRUE MYTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell a child she is composed of parts
Last Line: She is the myth that is true
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Identity; Women


TRYING ON MARILYN MONROE'S SHOES, by CYNTHIA GALLAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said, girl, like when did marilyn ever walk around in these?
Last Line: Even after I slip those shoes off
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Shoes; Women


VACATION, 1969, by DOROTHY BARRESI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers rolling around in the big back seat
Last Line: Lashed to the wheel, %america, by god, filling the car windows
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women


VIETNAM BIRTHDAY LOTTERY, 1970, by MARIANNE BORUCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not winter still, but not
Last Line: And the saved, by moonlight or streetlight %I can't remember which
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WARTS, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I grew a big one on my thumb. At first
Last Line: Or girl enough to be loved %could ever grew
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WHAT I KNOW, WHAT I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO KNOW, by BARBARA LAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could hide in the folds of your skirt, just listening
Last Line: First on your neck, then mine
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WHAT IS THERE, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is there to remember?
Last Line: All summer, hard-assed %and full of poison?
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WHEN MEMORY IS A GARDENIA IN YOUR STEPMOTHER'S HAIR, by KATE SONTAG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'd like to hear her voice again, sympathetic
Last Line: Is the first and last stepflower on earth
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WHEN VAN MORRISON SANG, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tupelo honey %wouldn't we all turn to satin inside
Last Line: Make a man sing like that?
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Morrison, Van (b. 1945); Women


WILDSISTERS BAR, by JUDITH VOLLMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you operate a jackhammer if
Last Line: The face greeting us at the door %falling off its hinges
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women's Rights


WITH MARTHA AT GIG HARBOR, by SHEILA BENDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: God gives every woman just one sister really
Last Line: Like our friendship shaking itself dry, %putting the air back in its wings
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women


WORD MADE FLESH, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked up the words
Last Line: In his corazon and my body
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women