Celestine Woo
Celestine Woo is an English professor at Bard Early College in Newark, NJ. She is also a dancer and former choreographer. She has published a book of poems about modern dance (Clare Songbirds Publishing), a chapbook of poetry (Pudding House Press), as well as numerous poems in literary journals. She has published scholarly articles and a book on Shakespeare.
I can muse on inequity and stereotypes
safe in the comfort of my paycheck
and business attire.
I can waltz by the cops in and around
the train station, wary but unafraid for my life.
The crashing of the English canon in Spanish Harlem
Resounds like cymbals in dissonant reverb:
The path out of poverty is strewn with dead white poets,
Whose diction students strive to emulate,
Recent Articles:
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Jimmy Grant
by Robert Leo Heilman
"One Becomes," "Ascent," and "The Distance"
by Bob Heman
"Learning to Suffer," "Forced Intentions," and "Counting"
by E. Martin Pedersen
Minister of World Affairs
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New Foundland (from Colonial Mud)
by Stephen Nelson
Goliath
by James Koehler Jr.
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by Mykyta Ryzhykh
"hallowed be the whores," "songs i know," and "gap in the static"
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On the Gravel Shoulder, Franchise
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by Andrew Darlington
Wax Lips
by Marcy Dilworth
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by James Croal Jackson
A Melody of Flowers
by Smeetha Bhoumik
Wormed to Pin Time (Voices from a Distance)
by Lachlan J McDougall
It Blinks, Therefore I Am
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Meryl the Peril meets Fearless Flo
by Sandra Arnold
"Dragonflies" and "Galen"
by Richard Krause
Three Videos, January 2023
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Directions to Washington, D. C.
by James Stuart Nolte
Observations Concerning the Recent Events in Athens
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Dead Dove In The Freezer
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Metrics
by Arnold Johnston
Hillbilly Elegy
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we lost something CIVILIZATION
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XOs
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by Amy L. Eggert
"Flaming Scarves" and "This Is Not the Shallow End"
by Amy Ballard Rich
"Power cord." and "Sitting by the Rivers of Babylon"
by Carol Dorf
Seven Photographs, December 2022
by Charles Muir Lovell
"Foxed," "Nobody Wants to Die Any More," and "At the Burial"
by Robert Knox