"Here they come, the biggest, loudest voices in the millennial USA, and there is no avoiding their oomph and bravado-who would want to? Boomer girls rock and rule in this eclectic collection of the female vernacular. No tiny feet here (lots of stamping though)-listen up!" --
Maureen Seaton, author of Furious CookingIn Levittown, Before Her Mother's Vanity
by Liz Abrams-morely The Philosopher's Club
by Kim Theresa Addonizio Them
by Kim Theresa Addonizio Affirmative Action Blues (1993)
by Elizabeth Alexander Apollo
by Elizabeth Alexander Summertime
by Elizabeth Alexander Queens, 1963
by Julia Alvarez The Word Made Flesh
by Julia Alvarez Vacation, 1969
by Dorothy Barresi Hershey's
by Jackie Bartley If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday
by Jan Beatty Mad River
by Jan Beatty Hula Hoop Summer
by Judy Belsky With Martha At Gig Harbor
by Sheila Bender Stairway To Heaven
by Jill Bialosky The Last Borges
by Millicent C. Borges The Vietnam Birthday Lottery, 1970
by Marianne Boruch Butterfly
by Jeanne Bryner Our Fathers
by Jeanne Bryner Sunday Morning
by Jeanne Bryner My Mother Taught Me How To Be Poor
by Cathleen Calbert First Lessons
by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin My Wicked Wicked Ways
by Sandra Cisneros An Afternoon In The World
by Geraldine Connolly Movie Queens
by Geraldine Connolly Nearing Menopause, I Run Into Elvis As Shoprite
by Barbara Crooker First Snow
by Silvia Curbelo Janis Joplin
by Silvia Curbelo Big Sister Says, 1967
by Kathryn Daniels Sara's Daughters
by Carol Dorf Adolescence: 1
by Rita Dove Adolescence: 2
by Rita Dove Adolescence: 3
by Rita Dove Feminism
by Denise Duhamel On Being Born The Same Exact Day Of The Same Exact Year As Boy George
by Denise Duhamel Ragweed
by Denise Duhamel The First Time I Almost Made Love
by Kathryn Dunn I Wish I Could Tell You
by Kathryn Dunn The Planet Krypton
by Lynn Emanuel Creation
by Heid E. Erdrich True Myth
by Heid E. Erdrich An Autobiography Of An Angel
by Susan Firer Basement Slow Dancing
by Susan Firer Trying On Marilyn Monroe's Shoes
by Cynthia Gallaher Senior Picture, 1971
by Pamela Gemin When Van Morrison Sang
by Pamela Gemin The Age Of Unlimited Possibilities
by Kate Gleason In Winter Something Inside Me Returns As To A Dark God
by Kate Gleason Atlantic City Snapshot, 1944
by Paula Goldman Crystal Lake
by Joy Harjo Rainy Day
by Joy Harjo Craving
by Donna Hilbert The Pursuit Of Knowledge
by Donna Hilbert Father's Advice
by Lori Horvitz Coming Of Age
by Judith Hougen Fitness Club: Riding The Lifecycle
by Judith Hougen Points Of No Return
by Judith Hougen The Boy
by Marie Howe Looking For God
by Lonnie Hull Apron
by Holly Iglesias Blue Milk
by Angela Jackson Faith
by Angela Jackson Growing Into My Name
by Harriet Jacobs The Other Language
by Diane Jarvenpa The First Time
by Allison Joseph Screen Test
by Allison Joseph Traitor
by Allison Joseph After The Second Miscarriage
by Julia Spicher Kasdorf Catholics
by Julia Spicher Kasdorf First Tv In A Mennonite Family: 1968
by Julia Spicher Kasdorf Fatima
by Laura K. Kasischke Satellite Father
by Josie Kearns To Mary At Thirteen
by Julie King 1958 Fruit Cutting Shed
by Jennifer Lagier What I Know, What I Haven't Begun To Know
by Barbara Lau Fast Gas
by Dorianne Laux Small Gods
by Dorianne Laux Twelve
by Dorianne Laux Bird Of Paradise
by Harriet Levin The Christmas Show
by Harriet Levin Elaine
by Lyn Diane Lifshin Marrying The Stranger
by Rachel Loden St. Paul Street Seasonal
by Kathy Mangan Claim
by Donna Masini Getting Out Of Where We Came From
by Donna Masini My Mother Makes Me A Geisha Girl
by Donna Masini Bridal Rites
by Rebecca Mcclanahan Passion Week, 1966
by Rebecca Mcclanahan Lawn Ornaments
by Leslie Adrienne Miller Sleeping Out
by Leslie Adrienne Miller Warts
by Leslie Adrienne Miller Learning Our Names
by Laurel Mills Naming
by Wendy M. Mnookin Polio Summer
by Wendy M. Mnookin Taking The Fences
by Judith Montgomery Barbie Says Math Is Hard
by Kyoko Mori On The Edge Of The Field
by Kyoko Mori The Sixties
by Rita Randazzo Blue Thread
by Anne Richey The Contract/1968
by Maureen Seaton Mortal Sins
by Maureen Seaton Four On A Fold
by Paula Sergi Sound Flying Into And Out Of My Ears
by Paula Sergi Let Go
by Diane Seuss-brakeman What Is There
by Diane Seuss-brakeman Sex Ed
by Elizabeth Neary Sholl Rochester, Minnesota, 1965
by Kelly Sievers Eat
by Cathy Song The Grammar Of Silk
by Cathy Song Sunworshippers
by Cathy Song When Memory Is A Gardenia In Your Stepmother's Hair
by Kate Sontag Adolescent Rag: Greece, New York, 1981
by Michele Spring-moore Barn Swallows
by Laura Stearns Ice Cabbages
by Laura Stearns Rocket To Russia (2)
by Alison Stone Crossroads
by Joyce Sutphen Smoke
by Alison Townsend Supplies
by Alison Townsend Institutional Blue
by Ann Townsend Collection Day
by Natasha Trethewey New Jersey Turnpike: Exit 14
by Patricia Valdata Friedan
by Judith Vollmer Return To Temptation
by Mary E. Weems --
Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Pamela Gemin teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Her first book of poems, Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers, was a Minnesota Voices Project winner and is forthcoming from New Rivers Press.
The author of two poetry collections, Brother and Phantom Limb, fellow Boomer Girl Paula Sergi teaches creative writing at the Arts Center of Fond du Lac.
