"East River" by Lola Ridge

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Dour river Jaded with monotony of lights Diving off mast heads…. Lights mad with creating in a river... turning its sullen back.... Heave up, river… Vomit back into the darkness your spawn of light… The night will gut what you give her.            This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 26, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About this Poem   "East River" originally appeared in Sun-up, and Other Poems (New York, B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920).   Lola Ridge was born in Dublin on December 12, 1873. Her books include Sun-Up and Other Poems (New York, B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920) and Red Flag (1927). She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 and the Shelley Memorial Award in 1936. She died on May 19, 1941. Poetry by Ridge   Collected Early Works  (Little Island Press, 2019)  "Listening in the Dark" by Meg Day "The Fish" by Marianne Moore "Searching for Light" by Yao Feng October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz   Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   Unsubscribe here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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