Siel Ju: “Miracle Mile”

This week we’re serving up a fresh new poem by Siel Ju. Ju’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunken Boat, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. The recipient of the Academy of American Poets’s Joan Giles Poetry Prize, she …

David St. John: “The Ash Tree”

This week we’ve dug up a wonder by David St. John. We published “The Ash Tree” in our Winter 1983 “Crazy Mirror” issue, 6.2. St. John hit the scene in the mid-seventies and has been a major force in American …

Rose McLarney: “Wet Not With Weeping”

This week we’re delighted to offer up a new poem by Rose McLarney. Rose’s collection of poems, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, was published by Four Way Books in 2012.  She has been awarded The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ biennial …

Kathy Song: “Stamp Collecting”

This week we’ve dug up a fine poem, Kathy Song’s “Stamp Collecting.” This poem dates back to 1989, TMR issue 12.1. Song was born and raised in Hawaii, and after traveling and studying extensively abroad, resides there again. She is …

Aaron Belz: “Charmed”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our new spring Editor’s Prize issue, 36.1, “the ladder” issue. Aaron Belz lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and teaches at Durham Technical Community College. He’s published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) …

Brockenbrough Lamb: “The Bourbon Peace”

This week we’re publishing a new poem by Brockenbrough Lamb. Brokie is a native of Richmond, Virginia, a rare book collector and owner of Libbie Books in Richmond’s west side. Author’s Statement: I’m from Richmond, Virginia where reminders of the Civil …

Darren Morris: “Fear of the Either/Or”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new “ladder” issue, the Spring Editor’s Prize 36.1. Darren Morris’s poems have appeared in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Tongue: A Journal of Writing and Art, …

Ai: “The Journalist”

This week we’re featuring a poem from the TMR archives, Ai’s masterwork, “The Journalist.” The poem appeared in issue 9.1, published in 1986. Ai, who died in 2010, had an illustrious career beginning in the early ’70s. She is known …

Katie Bickham: “Widow’s Walk, 1917″

This week we’re featuring a poem by Katie Bickham, winner of this year’s Editor’s Prize. The poem features in our brand new Editor’s Prize spring issue, 35.5 (the ladder issue). Katie Bickham was born and raised in the Deep South …

Kerry Hardie: “Report”

This week we’re featuring a new poem by Kerry Hardie. Kerry Hardie lives in County Kilkenny, Ireland. She has published six full collections of poetry with The Gallery Press (Ireland), her most recent being The Ash and the Oak and …

Peter Cooley: “Portrait of Adam in Landscape with Swine”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our current “Moonhead issue,” 35.5. Peter Cooley’s ninth book Night Bus to the Afterlife will be published in 2013 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which has published seven of his previous volumes. The recent …

Michael S. Harper: “Négritude: A Poem Written When Everything Else Fails to Translate”

This week, March 14-15, the English Department at The University of Missouri–Columbia, in conjunction with Cave Canem Foundation, is hosting a three-day academic symposium that celebrates and explores the multi-faceted contributions of Michael S. Harper. Scholars, poets, and jazz musicians …

Jake Adam York: “Calendar Days”

This week of AWP we’re painfully honored to publish a new poem by the late Jake Adam York. An amazing talent and advocate of poetry, Jake passed away in December. Among many other commitments, he taught creative writing at UC …

R.T. Smith: “Summoning Shades”

In the wake of Lincoln‘s big night at the Oscars and of our new issue 35.4 hitting the stands, this week we’re featuring a poem from the new issue by R.T. Smith, part of a Mary Todd Lincoln triptych. Smith is Writer-in-Residence …

Jorie Graham: “Salmon”

This week we’ve recovered a golden oldie by the esteemed Jorie Graham. Graham is the award-winning author of numerous collections of poetry spanning back to the early eighties (this is from TMR 6:1, Fall ’82). “Salmon” appeared in her second …

George David Clark: “Reveille with Lullabies”

This week we’re publishing a new poem by George David Clark. Clark has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and is currently a Lilly Postdoctorate Fellow at Valparaiso University. This winter his poems can be …

Justin Gardiner: “Naming the Lifeboat”

This week we’re christening our brand-spanking new winter “Moonhead” issue 35.4 with a poem from Justin Gardiner’s feature. Gardiner is the 2012 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Fellow, sponsored by PEN Northwest.  He is also the recipient of the 2012 Larry …

James Galvin: “A Poem from the Edge of America”

This week we’ve dug up a James Galvin poem from the early days of TMR, 1982, to be exact, issue 6:1. Much of Galvin’s work concerns the ecology of the great west, including Wyoming, where he ranches. A teacher at …

Alex Lemon: “I Knew You Before You Were”

This week we’re kicking off the new semester with a new doozy by Alex Lemon. Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir and three collections of poetry: Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. A fourth collection is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He lives in …

Margaree Little: “What Was Missing”

This week we’re featuring another poem from our brand-spanking-new “German Shepherd” issue, Fall 2012, 35.3. Margaree Little’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bloom, and Beloit Poetry Journal.  She is a recent graduate of the …

Kwame Dawes: “Stop Time”

This week we’re going to let Kwame Dawes raise the hymn with a new poem. A Ghanaian-born Jamaican, Dawes is the award-winning author of sixteen books of poetry (most recently, Wheels, 2011) and numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. …

Tryfon Tolides: “From ‘Standards in Norway’”

This week we’re celebrating our brand-new Fall “German Shepherd” issue, 35.3, with a wonderful poem from its pages by Tryfon Tolides. Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou, Greece. His first book, An Almost Empty Walking, was a 2005 National Poetry Series …

Mary Ruefle: “True to Life Also”

This week we’ve dug up a haunting lyric by acclaimed American poet, essayist and professor, Mary Ruefle. This poem dates back to 1982, the “blackberry” issue 5.3. Ruefle has won many major awards and fellowships. Her most recent poetry collection is Selected …

Kathryn Maris: “Knowledge is a Good Thing”

This week we’re featuring a new poem by Kathryn Maris. Maris is from New York City. She has won a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poets award and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Yaddo. …

Michael S. Harper: “Zimmerhouse”

This week we’re going to let Michael S. Harper show us how it’s done. This poem dates back to 1985, TMR issue 8.2. Harper has been a major voice in American poetry, and a widely influential teacher at Brown University, since the …

Ruth Awad: “Sūrat al-Qiyāma: My Father Talks to God When Syria Invades Tripoli, 1976″

This week we’re featuring a new poem by Ruth Awad. Awad holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, Anti-, Copper Nickel, RHINO, and elsewhere. She loves her …

Brenda Hillman: “The Goats”

This week we’ve dug up a TMR classic by Brenda Hillman. We published this poem back in ’88, issue 11.1. Hillman has described her work as “interested in the presence of spirit in matter and in how to have joy in a …

Philip White: “Underwing”

This week we’re featuring a new poem by Philip White. White’s poems have won a Pushcart Prize and have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Agni, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. His book, The Clearing, won …

Edward Hirsch: “The Skokie Theatre”

This week we’ve dug up a gem by Edward Hirsch, which we first published back in 1985 (issue 8.3). This poem appears in his award-winning ’86 collection Wild Gratitude and was featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac in 1996. …

Jeff Hardin: “Infinity Getting Fainter on All the Radar Screens”

This week we’re publishing a new poem by Jeff Hardin. Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee.  He is the author of two chapbooks and one collection, Fall Sanctuary, recipient of the Nicholas Roerich Prize. A second collection called …

Kimberly Johnson: “The Trumpetvine Clarions to the Honeybees”

This week we’re featuring another poem from our new Summer issue, 35.2. Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil’s Georgics.  Recipient …

David Bottoms: “Recording the Spirit Voices”

This week we dove deep in the archives (Summer, 1980, TMR 3.3) and came up with this doozy by Georgia’s best, David Bottoms. Bottoms has served as Georgia’s Poet Laureate since 2000, and was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall …

Dan O’Brien: “The Poet and the War Reporter Paul Watson Go For a Sled Ride”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand-new newspaper-man summer issue, 35.2. Dan O’Brien’s poetry and fiction have appeared in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. His play about war reporter Paul Watson, The Body …

Ann Keniston: “Dreamed Beloved: you”

This week we have a new poem from Ann Keniston. Keniston’s first poetry collection, The Caution of Human Gestures, was published in 2005 by David Robert Books. She is completing a new full-length manuscript entitled “Lament/Praise”; poems from this manuscript have …

Andrea O’Rourke: “Would It Surprise You I Don’t Like Mornings?”

This week we’re kicking off fall semester with a poem from our brand new issue (Summer: 35.2). Andrea O’Rourke is from Rijeka, Croatia. During the day she attends the MFA program at Georgia State University in Atlanta. At nights she’s …

Christopher Bakken: “Confession”

This week, with Leo roaring, we offer up this new poem by Christopher Bakken. Bakken is the author of After Greece (2001) and Goat Funeral (2006), as well as a forthcoming culinary action/adventure memoir called Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the …

Andrew Hudgins: “Serenades in Virginia: Summer, 1863″

This week we’ve dug up a classic by Andrew Hudgins. From one of our first issues, the “golden apple” issue of 1981 (Summer, 4.3), this poem, as noted in the original epigraph, “is spoken in the voice of the Georgia …

Shelley Puhak: “Letter to an Old Flame”

This week, we’re featuring a new poem by Shelley Puhak. Puhak is the author of Stalin in Aruba, winner of the 2010 Towson Prize for Literature, and the chapbook The Consolation of Fairy Tales, winner of the 2011 Stephen Dunn Prize …

James Tate: “Storm”

This week we’ve dug up a poem by James Tate from our Fall ’83 issue, 7.1. Since the sixties, Tate has garnered most of the major poetry awards for his singularly imaginative work. His honors include the Yale Younger Prize, …

Sarah Grieve: “Ode in a Bikini”

In honor of the heat wave and holiday, we offer Sarah Grieve’s ode. Grieve is a third year PhD student studying 20th century American poetry at Arizona State University. She has degrees from Florida State University (MFA) and Cal Poly, San …

Steve Gehrke: “Paracusia”

This week we’re featuring a poem by the second runner-up from our Spring contest issue. Steve Gehrke has published three books, most recently Michelangelo’s Seizure, which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of Illinois Press …

Beth Bachmann: “alternative: uses for ascot”

This week we’re featuring a new poem by Beth Bachmann. Bachmann is the author of Temper (Pitt Poetry Series, 2009), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her new manuscript, Flaw, won the …

Mark Wunderlich: “A Servant’s Prayer”

This week we’re featuring a poem by Mark Wunderlich, runner-up from our latest Editor’s Prize issue. Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1999 and received the Lambda Literary Award, …

Jesse Graves: “The Kingdom of the Dead”

This week we’re kicking off summer with a poem by Jesse Graves. Graves teaches writing and literature classes at East Tennessee State University, where he is Assistant Professor of English.  He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of …

David Kirby: “If Any Man Have an Ear, Let Him Listen”

This week we’re featuring our prize-winning poet, David Kirby, from our brand-spanking-new Spring 2012 Contest issue, TMR 35.1. Kirby is the author of numerous books, including The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the 2007 National …

Larry Levis: “Labyrinth as the Erasure of Cries Heard Once Within It or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded. . .’ Later)”

This week we’re featuring a poem by the late great Larry Levis, a co-editor of TMR in the late seventies, as well as an award-winning and amazingly influential poet and teacher. His books include, among others, The Afterlife (University of Iowa …

Amy Newman: “The Day After The Dean of Michigan State College Admits Him To Lansing Sparrow Hospital For Rest, A Naked Theodore Roethke Barricades Himself Behind A Hospital Mattress”

[This text is also available online as part of our TextBox anthology.]   This week we’re featuring another poem by Amy Newman from our Fall issue, 34:3. Newman’s fourth book of poetry Dear Editor is recently out from Persea Books. She …

Gregory Fraser: “The Great Northeast”

This week we’re thrilled to publish a new poem by Gregory Fraser. Fraser is the author of two poetry collections, Strange Pietà (Texas Tech, 2003) and Answering the Ruins (Northwestern, 2009). He is also the co-author, with Chad Davidson, of …

Cynthia Marie Hoffman: “The General’s Report”

This week we’re featuring Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s previously unpublished poem, “The General’s Report.” Runner-up in poetry for our Editor’s Prize this year, Hoffman is the author of Sightseer, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. A former Diane Middlebrook …

Brian Swann: “Pavlova”

Our feature this week is a previously unpublished poem by Brain Swann. Swann’s new collection of poems will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Pavlova   Through the open window comes “America” again played in the park by a Marine …

Lynda Hull: “Counting in Chinese”

[This text is also available online as part of our TextBox anthology.]   This week we’ve dug up a classic by Lynda Hull. This poem was first published in the Fall of 1987 in TMR 10.3. Hull was born in …

Melissa Broder: “Mercy”

This week we’re serving up a new poem by Melissa Broder. Broder is the author of two collections of poems, most recently Meat Heart. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Redivider, Court Green, Drunken Boat, Barrelhouse, The Awl, et al. She edits La Petite …

Thomas Heise: from “Moth; or how I came to be with you again”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new issue by Thomas Heise. Heise is the author of two books, Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande, 2006) and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, …

Katie Chaple: “Mapping the Heart”

This week we’re featuring a poem by Katie Chaple, from her just-out first book Pretty Little Rooms (Press 53). Chaple teaches poetry and writing at the University of West Georgia and edits Terminus Magazine. Her work has appeared or is …

Monica Ferrell: “Planet”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new issue, Winter 2011, 34.4. Monica Ferrell is the author of a collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, which won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande …

Davis McCombs: “Biomass: A Genealogy”

This week we’re thrilled to feature a new poem by Davis McCombs. McCombs directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas. His first book, Ultima Thule, was chosen by W. S. Merwin for the 1999 Yale Series of …

Richie Hofmann: “Sea Interlude: Dawn”

We’re thrilled to kick off 2012 with a poem by Richie Hofmann from our new issue, 34.4, which just arrived in our offices. Richie Hofmann was born in 1987.  His poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Southwest …

Kerry Carnahan: “Cello”

This week we feature a previously unpublished poem by Kerry Carnahan. Carnahan was born in Kansas, lives in Brooklyn, and works in a converted Chiclets factory. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review and North Dakota Quarterly. Author’s Note: …

Victoria Chang: “Edward Hopper’s Conference at Night”

This week we are thrilled to feature a previously unpublished poem by Victoria Chang. Chang’s first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry and won the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and …

Taije Silverman: “Take It Everything”

This week we’re proud to present a previously unpublished poem by Taije Silverman. Silverman is the author of Houses Are Fields.  Her individual poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Harvard Review, and elsewhere.  She …

David Roderick: “Self-Portrait as David Bowie”

This week we’re proud to follow-up a Turkey-week hiatus with a previously unpublished poem by David Roderick. Roderick’s first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize.  Recently his poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Southern Review, Cave Wall, …

Jason Koo: “Work”

This week we serve up a previously unpublished poem by Jason Koo. Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice …

David Wagoner: “A Logical Proposition to His Coy Companion outside a Tropical Beach Cabana”

This week we’re excited to feature a poem by David Wagoner from our current issue, 34.3. Wagoner was born in eastern Ohio, grew up between Gary and Chicago, and has lived in or near Seattle since 1954. A professor of …

James Thomas Miller: “The Perfect Gift”

This week we’re proud to feature “The Perfect Gift,” a previously unpublished poem by James Thomas Miller. Miller is from Indianola, Mississippi. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Blackbird and various other journals. He received his MFA from SIU-Carbondale and …

Shara Lessley: “Test”

This week we’re proud to post Shara Lessley’s poem, “Test,” from our latest 34.3 issue. Lessley is a former Stegner Fellow. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the …

Paisley Rekdal: “A Hand”

Our feature this week is a previously unpublished poem by Paisley Rekdal called “A Hand.” Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, …

Amy Newman: “On Safari in the Serengeti with Her Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton Writes Letters to Her Therapist”

[This text is also available online as part of our TextBox anthology.]   This week we are proud to feature a poem from the newly printed TMR 34.3: Amy Newman’s “On Safari in the Serengeti with Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton …

Bruce Bond: “Volition”

This week we are proud to present a previously unpublished poem, “Volition,” by Bruce Bond. Bond’s most recent collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells (A trilogy of new books; Etruscan Press, forthcoming), The Visible (LSU, forthcoming), Peal (Etruscan, …

Darcie Dennigan: “The Atoll”

This week we’re proud to feature a new poem, “The Atoll,” by Darcie Dennigan. Dennigan is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse. She is an associate editor at H_NGM_N and a poet in residence at UConn. She lives in …

Steve Gehrke: “Prologue, Epilogue”

This week we are proud to feature a poem from our latest issue, 34.2: Steve Gehrke’s “Prologue, Epilogue.” Gehrke has published three book, most recently Michelangelo’s Seizure, which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of …

MRB Chelko: from “MANHATTATIONS”

This week we are proud to feature MRB Chelko’s [rain pours on the unsold umbrellas] from the series “MANHATTATIONS.” This poem is previously unpublished. Chelko is a recent graduate of The University of New Hampshire’s MFA program and Assistant Editor …

Peter Jay Shippy: “Enchantment”

This week we are proud to feature “Enchantment” by Peter Jay Shippy. You can find the print version in our new issue, TMR 34:2, which debuted earlier this summer. Shippy is the author of Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press, …

Chloe Honum: “Dress Rehearsal” & “My Great Aunt Billie, at 92″

This week we are featuring two poems by Chloe Honum: “Dress Rehearsal” and “My Great Aunt Billie, at 92.”   The poem “Dress Rehearsal” originally appeared in Poetry Magazine in November 2009, as one of a selection of poems that garnered …

Nadine Sabra Meyer: “Invocation: A Fragment”

This week we are proud to feature “Invocation: A Fragment” by Nadine Sabra Meyer. You can find the print version in our current issue, TMR 34:1 (though you might want to hurry, since our new issue drops very soon!). Meyer …

Alexandra Teague: “Career Day”

This week we are proud to feature “Career Day” by Alexandra Teague. The poem is previously unpublished. Alexandra Teague’s first book of poetry, Mortal Geography, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was published by Persea Books in 2010. Her poetry …

Josh Booton: “Sketch with Yellow Asterisk”

This week we are proud to feature Josh Booton’s “Sketch with Yellow Asterisk.”  The poem appears in our current issue, TMR 34:1.  Josh Booton is a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Texas-Austin. His poems have …

Josh Kryah: “the day without before this without”

This week we are delighted to feature “the day without before this without” by Joshua Kryah.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Kryah’s first collection of poems, GLEAN (2007), won the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize. His second, WE ARE STARVED, will …

Jessica Piazza: “Achluophilia”

This week we are proud to feature “Achluophilia” by Jessica Piazza.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University …

George Looney: “To Account for Such Grace”

This week we’re proud to feature “To Account for Such Grace” by George Looney, winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in poetry.  The poem is published in our current issue, TMR 34:1. George Looney’s most recent book isOpen …

Micah Bateman: “Homecoming”

This week we are delighted to feature “Homecoming” by Micah Bateman.  The poem is previously unpublished. Micah Bateman grew up in Jacksonville, Texas, and lives with his wife Andrea in Iowa City where he studies and teaches. He can be …

Cynthia Marie Hoffman: “At Twenty Minutes Past Twelve by a Clock in the Queen’s Apartment I Commenced to Give a Little Chloroform”

This week we are proud to feature “At Twenty Minutes Past Twelve by a Clock in the Queen’s Apartment I Commenced to Give a Little Chloroform” by Cynthia Marie Hoffman.  Hoffman is the author of Sightseer, winner of the 2010 …

Maria Hummel: “Twelve Red Seeds”

This week we are proud to feature “Twelve Red Seeds” by Maria Hummel.  The poem is published in our current issue, TMR 33:4.  Maria Hummel is the author of the novelWilderness Run (St. Martin’s Press, 2002) and recent poetry, fiction, and …

Tarfia Faizullah: “Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls”

This week we are proud to feature Tarfia Faizullah’s ”Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls,” which appears in our latest issue, TMR 33:4.  Tarfia Faizullah’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, diode, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is the recipient …

Steven Lance: “South Dakota”

This week we are delighted to feature Steven Lance’s poem “South Dakota.”  The poem is previously unpublished.  Steven Lance graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009.  Since then, he has been driving around the country, teaching creative writing and ESL, writing press releases …

Julie Moore: “Recovery”

This week we are delighted to feature “Recovery” by Julie L. Moore.  The poem is previously unpublished. Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, published last year by WordTech Editions, and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing …

Danielle Cadena Deulen: “Corrida de Toros”

This week we are proud to feature“Corrida de Toros” by Danielle Cadena Deulen, a poem from our current issue, TMR 33:3. Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas …

Arthur Vogelsang: “Changed My Mind”

This week we are delighted to feature“Changed My Mind,” by Arthur Vogelsang.  The poem is previously unpublished, but will soon be available as part of his latest collection Expedition: New & Selected Poems, due out from The Ashland Poetry Press in …

Ellen Dudis: “Double Take”

This week we are proud to feature “Double Take,” by Ellen Dudis.  The poem is previously unpublished. Dudis lives on a farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  Her poems have appeared in many journals, literary magazines and anthologies, most recently Beyond Forgetting: …

Jason Koo: “Do You Hear Me, Poison Ivy?”

This week we are proud to feature “Do You Hear Me, Poison Ivy?” by Jason Koo. The poem is previously unpublished. Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize …

Maureen Seaton: “Metastasis”

This week we are proud to feature“Metastasis” by Maureen Seaton, a poem from our new issue, TMR 33:3. Maureen Seaton’s sixth solo book of poems is Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen. She authored a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, winner of the …

Dore Kiesselbach: “Police”

This week we present a new poem by Dore Kiesselbach, “Police.” The poem is previously unpublished. Kiesselbach won Britain’s Bridport Prize in poetry last year. His work has appeared in magazines such as Antioch Review, FIELD and New Letters, and …

Jonathan Johnson: “To Whomever May Care for Me Dying”

This week, we present “To Whomever May Care for Me Dying” by Jonathan Johnson, which appeared in our Summer 2010 issue (TMR 33.2). Jonathan Johnson’s books include the poetry collections In the Land We Imagine Ourselves (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and …

John Evans: “Scale”

This week, we present “Scale” by John Evans, which is part of a sequence of poems appearing in the current issue of TMR (33.2). Evans is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where next fall he will be the …

Nick Courtright: “Goddess”

This week, we present Nick Courtright’s “Goddess.” His poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, and The Kenyon Review Online, among numerous others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, is …

Kent Shaw: “Why you can’t build a city quite fast enough”

This week we are delighted to feature “Why you can’t build a city quite fast enough” by Kent Shaw. The poem is previously unpublished. Kent Shaw’s first book, Calenture, was published by University of Tampa Press in 2008. New work …

Benjamin Grossberg: “The Space Traveler and Wandering”

This week we are proud to feature a poem from our current issue (TMR 33:2), Benjamin Grossberg’s “The Space Traveler and Wandering.” Benjamin Grossberg’s books are Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) and Sweet Core Orchard …

Sean Hill: “A Photograph Taken in Duluth”

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an MFA from the University of Houston. He has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the …

Jaswinder Bolina: “Portrait of the Self”

This week we are happy to present Jaswinder Bolina’s “Portrait of the Self.” Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His more recent work has appeared in AGNI online, Black Warrior Review, …

Anna Journey: “The Devil’s Apron”

This week, we are proud to present “The Devil’s Apron,” by Anna Journey. Journey is the author of the collection, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry …

Bruce Cohen: “The World Haywire”

This week, we feature an unpublished poem by Bruce Cohen. Cohen’s poems have appeared in literary periodicals such as The Georgia Review, Ecotone, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner & The Southern Review, as well as being featured on Poetry Daily & …

Avery Slater: “Death in the Middle Kingdom”

This week, we present Avery Slater’s “Death in the Middle Kingdom” as Poem of the Week. Slater’s work appears in Slate, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, The Journal, CutBank, Connecticut Review, Chelsea, Yemassee, Clackamas Literary Review, Permafrost, Cold Mountain …

Kerry Hardie: “Emigration Photo”

This week we feature another poem from TMR 33.1: Uncharted: “Emigration Photo,” by the Irish poet Kerry Hardie. She has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press, Ireland, the most recent of which is Only This Room, 2009. …

Sarah Blackman: “A Marriage Poem”

As we continue to celebrate the release of our Editor’s Prize issue, 33.1: Uncharted, this week we offer “A Marriage Poem” from Sarah Blackman, finalist for the 2010 Editor’s Prize in Poetry. Sarah Blackman is the director of creative writing …

Christina Hutchins: “Into your pocket”

For the next three weeks, we celebrate the arrival of our Editor’s Prize issue with poems from 33.1: Uncharted.  First up is “Into your pocket,” from the winner of our 2010 Editor’s Prize in Poetry, Christina Hutchins. Her work appears …

Eric Burger: “A Hanking”

This week, we feature a brand-new poem by Eric Burger. Burger was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He’s also a recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the …

Joe Osterhaus: “Eden”

This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus’ original poem “Eden.”  Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, andThe Swallow Anthology of …

John Casteen: “Bird-Teasing After The Hurricane”

This week, TMR is pleased to present “Bird-Teasing After the Hurricane,” new work by John Casteen.  His first book of poems, Free Union, was published in 2009 by The University of Georgia press.  New poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus.  He teaches at Sweet Briar College, and …

Marcus Wicker: “Love Letter to Flavor Flav”

This week we are excited to present “Love Letter to Flavor Flav,” new work from Marcus Wicker.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, Rattle, Ninth Letter, Sou’Wester, DIAGRAM, and Anti-,among other journals. …

Daniel Anderson: “Provinces”

This time, our poem of the week is from Issue 32.4, and our poet is Daniel Anderson. Of “Provinces,” he writes: “Initially, I intended for “Provinces” to be a brief sketch about some kind of intelligence officer and his smug …

Richard Bausch: “Dream Poem 10″

This week, we happily feature another poem from our most recent issue, The Questionable Past (32.4): Richard Bausch’s “Dream Poem 10.” Richard Bausch is the author of eleven novels, seven volumes of stories, and, just out from LSU Press, a …

Mark Kraushaar: “Recent Cosmological Observations”

This week, we are happy to feature a poem from the most recent issue of TMR, “The Questionable Past” (32.4):  Mark Kraushaar’s “Recent Cosmological Observations.”  Kraushaar has new work appearing or forthcoming from Michigan Quarterly, Ploughshares, the Gettysburg Review and New Ohio Review and has been included …

Traci Brimhall: “Noli Me Tangere”

We are happy to present as this week’s poem Traci Brimhall’s “Noli Me Tangere,” from our issue Demons (32.3). Traci Brimhall has received the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Tennessee Williams …

Michelle Chan Brown: “Blind Date With My Father, 1976″

This week we present Michelle Chan Brown’s previously unpublished poem “Blind Date With My Father, 1976.” Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tampa Review, The Concher, KNOCK, textsound, Broken Bridge Review, Yemassee and others. She received her MFA from the …

Brian Swann: “The Procession”

This week we’re excited to feature a poem by Brian Swann from our most recent issue, Demons (32.3). Brian Swann has published many books in a number of genres, including seven books of poetry, such as Autumn Road (Ohio State …

Sally Keith: “Nervous Tic”

This week we’re proud to feature “Nervous Tic,” a previously unpublished poem by Sally Keith.  Design, her first book, won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman.  Her second manuscript, Dwelling Song, was chosen for publication by Bin Ramke and Fanny …

Kimberly Johnson: “Charlie”

This week we’re proud to feature“Charlie” by Kimberly Johnson; the poem is published in our current issue TMR 32:2 (2009).  Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a verse translation …

Ellen Bass “Jazz”

This week we’re delighted to feature “Jazz” by Ellen Bass; the poem is published in our current issue TMR 32:2 (2009). Ellen Bass’s poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press), named a Notable Book of 2007 by the …

Bronwen Butter Newcott: “Resistance”

This week we are proud to feature “Resistance” by Bronwen Butter Newcott.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Newcott’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, The Baltimore Review, Smartish Pace, The Portland Review, and elsewhere.  She grew up in Washington DC and currently lives …

Bob Hicok: “In the future, the future will be the past”

This week we are proud to feature “In the future, the future will be the past” by Bob Hicok, which is published in our more recent issue: TMR 32:2 (2009). Hicok’s This Clumsy Living received the Bobbitt Prize from the …

Franny Lindsay: “Ginny”

Frannie Lindsay is the winner of our Jeffrey E. Smith Prize in Poetry, and her work is featured in the latest issue of The Missouri Review (32:1).  Because most of the poems in the winning submission were elegies addressed to her sister, …

Lisa Williams: “Melt”

This week we are proud to feature “Melt” by Lisa Williams, which appears in the current issue of The Missouri Review (32:1, 2009). Lisa Williams is the author of two books of poems, Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, …

This week we are proud to feature “Mr. Goat,” by Matthew Fluharty, who was a finalist for this year’s Jeffrey Smith Editor’s Prize in Poetry. The poem is previously unpublished. Fluharty’s poetry has appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The …

Jamie Thomas: “Migratory Patterns”

This week we’re proud to feature“Migratory Patterns” by Jamie Thomas.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Jamie Thomas is finishing a Ph. D. at the University of Houston and his recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Rattle, …

Kerry Hardie: “Friendship”

This week we are proud to feature“Friendship,” by Kerry Hardie.  The poem is previously unpublished. It will appear in her new collection Only This Room (Gallery Press) in October 2009. Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and lives in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Her publications include …

David Hernandez: “The Soldier Inside the Horse”

This week we’re proud to feature “The Soldier Inside the Horse” by David Hernandez, which originally appeared inTMR 28:1.  David Hernandez’s poetry collections include Always Danger(Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music(Tupelo …

Khaled Mattawa: “East of Carthage”

This week we are delighted to present section 9 of the poem “East of Carthage” by Khaled Mattawa.  The poem first appeared in TMR 30:2 (2007).  Khaled Mattawa is the author of three books of poems:  Ismailia Eclipse, Zodiac of Echoesand Amorisco (in which …

Jillian Weise: “Katie Smoak”

This week we are proud to feature the poem “Katie Smoak” by Jillian Weise. It originally appeared in TMR 31:3 (2008). Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull, 2007). She is an assistant professor …

Megan Snyder-Camp: “Middle Room”

This week we are proud to debut “Middle Room” by Megan Snyder-Camp.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Megan Snyder-Camp’s first collection of poetry,The Forest of Sure Things, won the 2008Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press First Book Award, and will be published in the …

Michael Collier: “The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars”

This week we are proud to feature “The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars” by Michael Collier, which originally appeared in TMR 12:1 (1989). Michael Collier is the author of five books of poetry: Dark Wild Realm (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), The …

Paisley Rekdal: “Why Some Girls Love Horses”

This week we’re proud to feature “Why Some Girls Love Horses” by Paisley Rekdal. The poem first appeared in TMR 31:2. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000 …

Jenny Gillespie: “The feather itself is not alive”

This week we’re featuring “The feather itself is not alive,” by Jenny Gillespie.   The poem is previously unpublished.  Jenny Gillespie received her M.A. in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.  Her work has been featured in Meridian, Borderlands,and Front …

David Wojahn: “Late Empire”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our archives: “Late Empire” by David Wojahn. It originally appeared in TMR 14:2. David Wojahn’s INTERROGATION PALACE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1982-2004, was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of …

Catherine MacCarthy: “The Freedom of the City”

This week’s poem is “The Freedom of the City” by Catherine MacCarthy, which originally appeared in TMR 26:3 (2003).  MacCarthy has published three collections of poetry: This Hour of the Tide (Salmon, 1994); the blue globe (1998, Blackstaff Press), and Suntrap (2007, Blackstaff Press).  In addition …

Brian Brodeur: “Nietzsche in Love”

This week’s poem is “Nietzsche in Love” by Brian Brodeur.  It is previously unpublished.  Brodeur is the author of Other Latitudes (2008), winner of the University of Akron Press’s 2007 Akron Poetry Prize, judged by Stephen Dunn, and So the Night Cannot Go on …

Ellen Bass: “Gate C 22″

This week’s poem is “Gate C 22″ by Ellen Bass, which originally appeared in TMR 25:1 (2002).  Bass won our 2001 Editor’s Prize for her selection of poems. We’ve just extended our deadline for this year’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s …

Davis McCombs: “Tobacco Mosaic”

This week’s poem is “Rain Dog” by Davis McCombs, which originally appeared in TMR 28:1 (2005). The poem is one from a series titled Tobacco Mosaic” and was selected as the winner of our Larry Levis Poetry Prize in 2004. …

George Looney: “The Insistence of Water”

Our latest poem of the week is “The Insistence of Water” by the poet George Looney, the winner of our Larry Levis prize for poetry in 2002 (our current prize is called the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize).   This poem …

Lynn Aarty Chandhok: “The Bandh”

This week’s poem is “The Bandh” by Lynn Aarti Chandhok, which appeared in TMR 28:3 (2005). Lynn Chandhok’s first book, The View from Zero Bridge, won the 2006 Philip Levine Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in October 2007. …

Jude Nutter: “The Insect Collector’s Demise”

This week’s poem is “The Insect Collector’s Demise” by Jude Nutter, which originally appeared in TMR 31:1 (2008) as our Editors’ Prize winner in poetry.  Jude Nutter’s first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence(University of …

Christina Hutchins: “Interregnum”

This week’s poem is “Interregnum” by Christina Hutchins, which originally appeared in TMR 31:1 (2008).  Hutchins has recent poems in The New Republic, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Southern Review, Southern Indiana Review and Sycamore Review. She has worked as …

Jen McClanaghan: “Your Own Private Oil Spill”

This week’s poem is “Your Own Private Oil Spill” by Jen McClanaghan. It is previously unpublished. Jen McClanaghan has work published or forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Literary Imagination, Cimarron Review and others. She received her MFA from Columbia University …

Stephen Dunn: “After Losses”

This week’s poem is “After Losses” by Stephen Dunn, which originally appeared in TMR 2:2&2.3 (1979), a special double issue that featured young poets.  Stephen Dunn was born in 1939, and has published fourteen books of poetry, includingDifferent Hours, winner of the …

Matt Hart: “Goodnight Everybody”

This week’s poem is “Goodnight Everybody” by Matt Hart.  It is previously unpublished.  Hart is the author of Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and three chapbooks: Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006) and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007).  A collaborative chapbook,Deafening Leafening, with poet …

Laura Kasischke: “More and Tinier”

This week’s poem is “More and Tinier” by Laura Kasischke, which originally appeared in TMR 30:1 (2007). Kasischke has published seven collections of poetry, including, most recently, Lilies Without, released with Ausable Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in …

Jericho Brown: “To Be Seen”

This week’s poem is “To Be Seen” by Jericho Brown.  It is previously unpublished.  Brown worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston.  He also …

Stephen O’Connor: “5. Song of Songs”

This week’s poem is “Song of Songs,” one section of a long poem called “The Yellow Valley” by Stephen O’Connor. It originally appeared in TMR 30:4 (2007). O’Connor has published three books: Rescue (fiction and poetry), Will My Name Be …

Preston Mark Stone: “White Power”

This week’s poem is “White Power” by Preston Mark Stone, which originally appeared in TMR 30:4 (2007).  Stone’s work has appeared in the Red River Review, Lumina, and the Crab Creek Review.  He holds an MA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College …

Marlys West: “When We Are Late”

This week’s poem is “When We Are Late” by Marlys West. It is previously unpublished. Marlys West is an award-winning poet and writer living in Los Angeles. She was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, an NEA grant recipient in …

Matthew Dickman: “Classical Poem”

This week’s poem is “Classical Poem” by Matthew Dickman.  It originally appeared in TMR 29:3 (2006). Classical Poem I’m listening to a symphony where heroes and villains are still alive. Not a soundtrack of soldiers parachuting into occupied Belgium but spies in …

Joshua Rivkin: “The Mohawks”

This week’s poem is “The Mohawks” by Joshua Rivkin. Rivkin is a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, American Letters & Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, …

Kerry Hardie: “Great Northern Divers in Ballinskelligs Bar”

This week’s poem is “Great Northern Divers in Ballinskelligs Bay” by Kerry Hardie, which originally appeared in TMR 30.3 (2007). Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and lives in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Her publications include four collections of poetry, a …

Joanne Diaz: “Syringe”

This week’s poem is “Syringe” by Joanne Diaz, which originally appeared in TMR 30:3 (2007). Joanne Diaz received her MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times Foundation Fellow. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming …

Robert Thomas: “Inferno”

This week’s poem is “Inferno” by Robert Thomas.  It is previously unpublished.  Robert Thomas’ first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University Press in 2002.  His …

Carl Dennis: “At the Lake”

This week’s poem is “At the Lake” by Carl Dennis, which originally appeared in TMR13:2 (1990).  Dennis was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1939.  He has published eleven books, including, most recently, Unknown Friends (Penguin, 2007).  His collectionPractical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer …

Davis McCombs: “Freemartin”

This week’s poem is “Freemartin” by Davis McCombs, which originally appeared in TMR 23:1 (2000). It appeared in McCombs’ first book, Ultima Thule, which was selected by W.S. Merwin in 2000 for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. McCombs’ second …

Brenda Hillman: “Arroyo”

This week’s poem is “Arroyo” by Brenda Hillman, which originally appeared in TMR 8:3 (1985). Hillman has published seven collections of poetry, including Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), and, most recently, Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all …

Victoria Chang: “Love Poem as Eye Examination”

This week’s poem is “Love Poem as Eye Examination” by Victoria Chang. It is previously unpublished. Chang’s second book of poems will be published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press, as part of the new VQR Poetry Series. …