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| Searching... Subject: BABY BOOM GENERATION Matches Found: 143 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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: This is my father Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 |
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