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Poetry Feature: Darren Morris
Featuring the poems:
Fear of Justifications
The First Circle
Fear of the Either/Or
Fear of Seed Vaults and Immortality
Fear of Blamelessness
Poetry Feature: Aaron Belz
Featuring the poems:
Charmed
Movement
King Leopold
How to Write a Poem
Dockside Dolls
Poetry Feature: Katie Bickham
Featuring the poems:
Dining Room, 1811
Kitchen, 1850
Master Bedroom, 1859
Front Porch, 1900
Widow’s Walk, 1917
Child’s Bedroom, 1933
Parlor, 2012
Poetry Feature: Justin Gardiner
Featuring the poems:
First Night South of the Antarctic Circle
Rebuttal
Sixty-Eight Degrees South, Marguerite Bay
Early Courtship Poem
Naming the Lifeboat
Poetry Feature: Peter Cooley
Featuring the poems:
Monuments
Rembrandt, Landscape with Obelisk
Rodin, The Thinker
Jouissance
From This Side
Portrait of Adam in Landscape with Swine
Poetry Feature: Tryfon Tolides
Featuring the poems:
The Day before the Big Dance
West Texas near Dark
Spring in the Village
Things to Do
List and Process
From “Standards in Norway”
Afternoon
Poetry Feature: Margaree Little
Featuring the poems:
The Calling
What Was Missing
Map
Using It
Revision
Poetry Feature: Christopher Robinson
Featuring the poems:
Borges
Shackleton
Columbus
Stevenson
Geometry and Angling
Poetry Feature: Andrea O’Rourke
Featuring the poems:
Would It Surprise You I Don’t Like Mornings?
The First Time
Wafer-Like and White
In the Absence of Grass
Sarajevo Cycle: 1992 to 1996
Cinema Verité: A Love Story
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
Featuring the poems:
The War Reporter Paul Watson on Winning the Pulitzer Prize
The War Reporter Paul Watson on Suicide
Portrait of the War Reporter Paul Watson as a Young Man
The War Reporter Paul Watson Meets Mother Theresa
The War Reporter Paul Watson Retells the Story of the Diver and the Goddess
The Poet and the War Reporter Paul Watson Go for a Sled Ride
Poetry Feature: Kimberly Johnson
Featuring the poems:
The Trumpetvine Clarions to the Honeybees
Three Lauds
A Benediction: On the Tulpenwoede of Seventeenth-Century Holland
The Lord God Bird (Campephilus principalis)
Poetry Feature: Thomas Heise
Featuring the poems:
from Moth; or how I came to be with you again: “There’s nothing latent in my wireless”
from Moth; or how I came to be with you again: “When I was living a short flight from”
Poetry Feature: Monica Ferrell
Featuring the poems:
Planet
In the Fetus Museum
Epithalamium
Sagesse
Heliopause
Poetry Feature: Richie Hofmann
Featuring the poems:
Glassworks
Jellyfish
Diving for Sponges
Sea Interlude: Moonlight
Sea Interlude: Dawn
Sea Interlude: Passacaglia
Marsh Thistle
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Poetry Feature: David Wagoner
Featuring the poems:
Elephant Dance
The New Giraffe
On Being in One Place Too Long
A Logical Proposition to His Coy Companion outside a Tropical Beach Cabana
Aftershock
Poetry Feature: Amy Newman
Featuring the poems:
On Safari in the Serengeti with Her Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton Writes Letters to Her Therapist
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
When Robert Lowell Sets Up Housekeeping with Latvian Dancer Vija Vetra on West 16th Street
During His Admission Procedure at Abbott Hospital’s Mental Health Unit, John Berryman Discourses on The Scarlet Letter’s Reverend Dimmesdale
When Patricia Hartle Would Give Delmore Schwartz a Ride to His Old Farm Property in New Jersey, He Would Wander about in the Fields for Hours, Calling for a Lost Cat
Poetry Feature: Shara Lessley
Featuring the poems:
First Days: August
Advice from the Predecessor’s Wife
The Explosive Expert’s Wife
Test
Poetry Feature: Peter Jay Shippy
Enchantment
Kaputniks
The obliquity of the ecliptic
The girl in the Blue Öyster Cult onesie
The daring sleeper
Poetry Feature: Diane Seuss
White violet, not so much an image
I can’t listen to music, especially “Lush Life,”
Poetry Feature: Nadine Sabra Meyer
Featuring the poems:
And Then
Atrium
Invocation: A Fragment
Sanctuary: A Premonition
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Winner of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry
To Account for Such Grace
Early Pastoral
The Consolation of a Company of Acrobats
A Temporary Delaying of the Inevitable
Poetry Feature: Josh Booton
Featuring the poems:
Sketch with Yellow Asterisk
As One Stone May Be Used to Shape Another
Strange Shapes the Night Makes
Finches
Poetry Feature: Tarfia Faizullah
Featuring the poems: Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls (featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 9, 2011) Reading Tranströmer in Bangladesh En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith To the Bangladeshi Cab Driver in San Francisco …
Poetry Feature: Brian Brodeur
On Suffering
The Gulf
He Asks the New Owner to Look After His Trees
Kandahar
The Man with a Bird’s Head
Poetry Feature: Paul Guest
Featuring the poems:
LOVE SONG WITH RUIN
EROS POETICA
SINCERELY
INVOCATION
FORGET
Poetry Feature: Maureen Seaton
Featuring the poems:
When I Was the Virgin of Westchester
When I Was The Donna Reed Show
When I Was Infertile
Metastasis
Helplessly Hetero
Poetry Feature: Danielle Cadena Deulen
Featuring the poems:
Corrida de Toros
Fig
After the Twentieth Century
Lacan at the Carousel
I Want You Dangerously
Revolution
Poetry Feature: John W. Evans
Features the poems:
Eclogue
Scale
Round and Round
Elegy with Boardwalk
There Are No Words
When the Detectives Arrived Sunday Morning
Poetry Feature: Benjamin S. Grossberg
Featuring the poems:
The Space Traveler’s Husband
The Space Traveler and Wandering
The Space Traveler, Great Filter
The Space Traveler and Crop Circles
The Space Traveler’s Husband
The Space Traveler and Runaway Stars
Poetry Feature: Jonathan Johnson
Featuring the poems:
Interiority
Longing Is Not Desire
I’ve Turned from the Distant
In the Year of Gorillas
Balloon
To Whoever May Care for Me Dying
Poetry Feature: Christina Hutchins
Featuring the poems:
Fossil
City Lights
Spring Rain
Wednesday Afternoon
Wheels
After Joseph
Into your pocket
Poetry Feature: Sarah Blackman
Featuring the poems:
Baucis and Philemon
The Event Horizon
Melancholia; a Fantasy
A Marriage Poem
The Distance Between the House and the Barn
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems:
Fear
Emigration Photo
Negation
A man died in the valley today,
November’s Birds
Poetry Feature: Mark Kraushaar
Featuring the poems: What the Dead Know Easy Money Stranger Recent Cosmological Observations (featured as Poem of the Week, Jan. 26, 2010) Baffled Recent Cosmological Observations One of the many implications of recent cosmological observations is that the concept …
Poetry Feature: Daniel Anderson
Featuring the poems: Pardon and Amnesty Provinces (featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 9, 2010) The Hills, Beautiful Hills Provinces Moonglow projections on a screen reveal A drunken row of huts. It’s difficult to tell if those are …
Poetry Feature: Richard Bausch
Featuring the poems: Dream Poems for Lisa, in Distance: Dream Poem 1 Dream Poem 3 Dream Poem 4 Dream Poem 6 Dream Poem 7 Dream Poem 10 (featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 2, 2010) Dream Poem 10 …
Poetry Feature: Traci Brimhall
Featuring the poems: Fiat Lux Discipline Noli Me Tangere (featured as Poem of the Week, Jan. 5, 2010) American Pastoral Noli Me Tangere We do not understand why they are dying, but we know the disease spreads when they …
Poetry Feature: Brian Swann
Featuring the poems: Field of Flowers The Procession (featured as Poem of the Week, Nov. 3, 2009) The Gods The Galleon The Procession Last night, in the smoke, the moon had a seizure, wobbling so you couldn’t understand it. …
Poetry Feature: Jeffrey Schultz
Featuring the poems: J. Resists the Urge to Comment on Your Blog The Gathering Blues
Poetry Feature: Christina Hutchins
Ruby and the Alarm Bird Washing my father’s hands Translations Turnstile
Poetry Feature: Lisa Williams
Featuring the poems: Octopus Anemone Oceans Melt (featured as Poem of the Week, June 2, 2009) Melt If I could enter what I long for, true coursing, blown North, some passage I believe is fluid without the stops …
Poetry Feature: Frannie Lindsay
Enough The Good Day The Music is Going Great in Both Directions In Bed with Janet Encore Pleasure Vandalizing My Sister’s House
Poetry Feature: Bob Hicok
Featuring the poems: In the future, the future will be the past (featured as Poem of the Week, July 14, 2009) BRCA1 Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down Meditations on a false spring From the history of the grade …
Poetry Feature: Ellen Bass
Featuring the Poems: Surrender Jazz (featured as Poem of the Week, July 30, 2008) Dyeing Her Hair Ode to Boredom Jazz Today I’m thinking about this child’s life – the rags of it, the ragged waves of it, the …
Poetry Feature: Kimberly Johnson
Featuring the poems: Bravo Charlie (featured as Poem of the Week, Aug. 11, 2009) Foxtrot November Tango Zulu Charlie A new song. A carol, say, to constancy — not the Northstar’s stubborn pivot, boring nightlong through the pole, but …
Poetry Feature: Alexandra Teague
Featuring the poems: Four Games Played While Riding the Bus Frames Kansas City The Heartland Bay Window
Poetry Feature: Alex Grant
Featuring the poems: The Ringmaster The Contortionist The Clown The Fortune-Teller The Acrobat The Magician The Roustabout The Audience The Magician Stars on his fingernails, sky in his hair, breath of the sea in his voice. His father sailed …
Poetry Feature: Jillian Weise
Featuring the poems: Katie Smoak [featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 10, 2009] Browsing Ranch Houses While You Dream of Estonia Once I Thought I Was Going to Die in the Desert Without Knowing Who I Was For Big …
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Richter
Featuring the poems: Recovery Fairy Tale: The Doctor She Asks About Death, Then Draws Recovery 3 The Day You Choose Recovery 6: The Last Word
Poetry Feature: Scott Coffel
Featuring the poems: The Egyptian Theatre In the Throes of Advanced Study A Postcard from Cucamonga The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast Willie Jones My Liberation from Vanity The Sway of One Ocean
Poetry Feature: Paisley Rekdal
Featuring the poems: Why Some Girls Love Horses [featured as Poem of the Week, Dec. 3, 2008] Possibilities in Love Yes Closer Why Some Girls Love Horses And then I thought, Can I have more of this, would it …
Poetry Feature: Rebekah Remington
Featuring the poems: Goat Baltimore Grief Greater Winter My Iberia
Poetry Feature: Christina Hutchins
Featuring the poems: Confessions of a Tactile Kleptomaniac A Way Back to Life A Traveler is Met By Shapes of the World Interregnum [featured as Poem of the Week, July 29, 2008] Interregnum I was born wizened. Rasp of …
Poetry Feature: Michael McGriff
Featuring poems from Landscapes with Origins: [In the break room] [Against my will] [The slow child, the small child] [Worm of concession] [This father and daughter] [Midwinter: she doesn't reach] [In the break room] In the break room the …
Poetry Feature: Jude Nutter
Winner of the 2007 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry. The Insect Collector’s Demise [featured as a Poem of the Week August 21, 2008] How to Use a Field Guide Growing Up in Bergen-Belsen: The Chrysalis
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
The full text of this poem is not currently available online.
Poetry Feature: Stephen O’Connor
Featuring the poems:
1. Uz
5. Song of Songs [featured as Poem of the Week]
9. Promises
15. Idolatry
17. Eternal Return
18. Dust and Ashes
Poetry Feature: Preston Mark Stone
Featuring the poems:
White Power [featured as a Poem of the Week]
Vigil of the Door
Elephants of the Good Ship Memory
Mortal Aphasia
The Amazing Tomkins — Readings by Touch — No Appointment Necessary
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Atkinson
Featuring the poems: In Plain Sight Lures Good Friday, 1989 Remembering Rexroth’s Li Ch’ing Chao in Cordova, Alaska The Harriman Expedition, 1899
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems: Great Northern Divers in Ballinskelligs Bay [This poem was featured as the Poem of the Week September 1, 2007] On teh Bus Red Window Poems The Valley
Poetry Feature: Joanne Diaz
Featuring the poems: Linnaeus’s Patient Syringe [Featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 6, 2008] Afternoon, Códoba Moon Jellies Syringe In 1853, Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood developed the first syringe with a needle fine enough to pierce …
Bloom School
The year I became a summertime blonde, I moved through air thick as mink, lingered most evenings at Bloom School. I turned slowly on the lowest swing, let dirt slip and fall between the soft peninsulas of my toes …
from “East of Carthage”
[This poem was featured as a Poem of the Week, March 3, 2009.] “East of Carthage: 9″ Southwest of here is Apuleius’s hometown, his inescapable destination having spent his inheritance on travel and studies. “Lacking the poverty of the rich,” …
Poetry Feature: Tracy Jo Barnwell
Featuring the poems:
The Doctor Provides His Initial Impressions
Robert Is Here
Night City Sunflower
New Year’s Eve Sonnet From A Fire Escape
Poetry Feature: K.A. Hays
Featuring the poems:
I’d Say God
So the Moths Come Slaloming out of Hollow Trees
Dear Apocalypse
The churchbells in Malé are ringing, possibly ushering out
And I Don’t Believe the View from Here
Poetry Feature: Sascha Feinstein
Featuring the poems: Shook Up Night and Day Swedish Sleds Lust Letters Recovery Mission
Poetry Feature: Laura Kasischke
Featuring the poems: My father’s mansion More and tinier [Featured as Poem of the Week, May 8, 2008] Prayer on bus The Suicide Rural husband More and tinier A long green thread unraveled from a dress, picked up by …
Poetry Feature: Bob Hicok
Featuring the poems:
* Higher Calling
* The Quiet Americans
* String Theory
* Verisimilitude
Poetry Feature: Sandra Kohler
Featuring the poems:
* Directions
* The Garden’s Name
* Countenance
* Elemental
* As It Is
* Love Poem
Poetry Feature: Ellen Hinsey
Featuring the poems:
Testimony on What is Important
Chronicle: A Concise Biography of Tyranny
Annals: Inventory
Poetry Feature: Mark Halliday
Featuring the poems:
Tim off to Charlotte
Shmedlo Talk
Wait for the Beep
Poetry Feature: Matthew Dickman
Featuring the poems:
Slow Dance
Classical Poem
The Small Clasp
Public Parks
Poetry Feature: Roy Jacobstein
Featuring the poems:
Round Trip
Fireballs of the Eucharist
Still
License
Poetry Feature: Brent Pallas
Featuring the poems:
If
Darwin’s Dog
Taking the Cure
Maldonado
My Dear Fox
Poetry Feature: Derek Mong
Winner of the 2006 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry
Featuring the poems:
Re: Vitruvian Man
Speculum
Recoil
To an Older Sibling, Miscarried
Poetry Feature: Sue Ellen Thompson
Featuring the poems:
Happiness
Only Child
My Parents’ Sex Life
What She Wanted
Babies
Hospital Days
Poetry Feature: Marie J. Carvalho
Featuring the poems:
Giving Out
That Thing You Can Never Have
Coplas/Verses
Damage
Poetry Feature: Ciaran Berry
Featuring the poems: The Act of Seeing The Beard of Bees Topography with Storm Petrels & Atlantic Tern Over By
Poetry Feature: Lynn Aarti Chandhok
Featuring the poems: The Bandh [Featured as Poem of the Week, Sept. 2, 2008] Mary Lesson The View from Zero Bridge Artemesia The Bandh The Jhelum River snaked past our back yard Beyond the corn, the rows of ripe …
Poetry Feature: Lavonne Adams
Featuring the poems: Julia Anna Archibald, 1858 Marian Sloan Apache How the Earth Became Bountiful
Poetry Feature: Rawdon Tomlinson
Featuring the poems: Journal: “Squirrel Girl” Retreat Column Rendezvous Memorial Daguerreotype Night Before Battle Night March
Poetry Feature: David Hernandez
Featuring the poems:
The Soldier Inside the Horse
Bully
Donut Shop
Leaving the Nurse
Poetry Feature: Elizabeth Powell
Featuring the poems: This Poem is Psychic Traveling Salesman in Providence What Death Said Accidental Report
Poetry Feature: Susanna Childress
Featuring the poems: It’s the First Thing Jagged with Love Muchas Gracias, My Love Finishing the House
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
Featuring the poems: “Wildflowers of New Homestead” Braiding Garlic Monet at Giverny Blues Passage
Poetry Feature: Susanna Childress
Featuring the poems:
It’s the First Thing
Jagged with Love
Muchas Gracias, My Love
Finishing the House
Poetry Feature: Jessica Garratt
Featuring the poems: Rotation Neighborhood (1) If the Weather Holds First Night of Writing Class
Poetry Feature: Gabriel Welsch
Featuring the poems: The Telemarketer Basically Enjoys Talking With Goldbarth, Though It Ends Too Soon for Her Preference Is the man of the house at home? I can’t believe you just said that, your throwback euphemism drags up a past …
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems: The Fat Man Who Stands in the Sea After Rage Countrymen Protecting the Buds
Poetry Feature: Gabriel Welsch
Featuring the following poems: The Telemarketer Basically Enjoys Talking with Goldbarth, Though it Ends Too Soon for Her Preference The Telemarketer Calls a Poet She’s Actually Heard Once on NPR to Talk to Him About Relief From the Burden of …
Poetry Feature: Elton Glaser
Featuring the poems: Blizzard near Emporia, 1893 Between Matins and the Late Alarm Plain Talk in a Beaver Hat Regression Analysis
Poetry Feature: Jude Nutter
Featuring the poems: Horses The Rest of Us To The Reader The Last Supper Horses Still, the horses are beautiful and their grace keeps me occupied. -Linda Hogan We pass them being wheedled and cajoled around small corrals, a …
Poetry Feature: Jeffrey Skinner
Featuring the poems: My Father’s Brain Lucky Day The Three Temptations of My Father The Adirondacks Black Olives
Poetry Feature: Luisa Igloria
Featuring the poems: Field Planted to Winter Grass The Return Trill and Mordent Mandorla
Poetry Feature: Anthony Butts
Featuring the poems:
Intercession to Saint Brigid
Mist and Fog
Song of Earth and Sky
Poetry Feature: Brendan Galvin
Featuring the poems: Sergeant Crocker Newton Recollects the Return of Thane Gould to Endicott, Massachusetts, in the Winter of 1977 Catboat A Few Local Names of the Double-Crested Cormorant Dogs of Truro Blackthorn and Ash
Poetry Feature: Catherine MacCarthy
Featuring the poems:
Seeds
Deluge
The Freedom of the City [This poem was featured as Poem of the Week for 10/28/2008]
Island of Miracles
Poetry Feature: Bob Hicok
Featuring the Poems: Into the Breach Her My Body Love Song My Walk Into the Breach I want to tell them we can hear what they say. With coffee in hand or a hot fudge cream puff tell them. …
Poor Boy’s Game for Muhammad Ali
1. Ali and Frazier, 1975 From this moment on remember that everything they do, no matter what, is beautiful. Make no mistake. When Ali leans in with his left he cares so much about how it feels, cares more …
Poems from fall
To divide naturally. Used with into: The specimens fell into three categories. Fallen already, the infallible world and its memory replaced by the fulcrum of words, the accumulation of language. Into all this naming, one thinks only of …
Poetry Feature: Monica Berlin
Featuring the poems: About the Nurse in Ob-Gyn Updike Arrives in Peoria, the City of Vowels The Alphabet Rome, Winter 1967 About the Nurse in Ob-Gyn The lobby is packed with expecting women, fidgeting husbands who pull toddlers up …
Poetry Feature: Bryan D. Dietrich
Featuring the poems: I Wonder Princess Superman’s Other Secret I Wonder Diana, like any other girl with new clothes, cannot wait to try them on! -Wonder Woman #1 Question is, would I matter if I didn’t tout these tits? …
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Winner of the 2002 Editors’ Prize for Poetry. Featuring the poems An Occurrence of Grace at a Bartok Concert Riffs Thelonius Put Down Memory and Mozart The Insistence of Water An Occurrence of Grace at a Bartok Concert This …
Poetry Feature: Mary Armstrnog
Featuring the poems: Road to the Mine Hilda Sarah Mine Explosion Shakes Windows in District School Removal of Bodies The Pail Bodies Forgiveness
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems:
After My Father Died
Tent
Rain in April
Trapped Swallow
Under the Sun
Poetry Feature: Gabriel Spera
Featuring the poems:
The Aerialist
Midway
Studies for a Portrait
Tarantula
Poetry Feature: Ann Lauinger
Featuring the poems:
Split Lilac
Spares
Ariel’s Leg
Leaving Sodom
The Party
Knives
Poetry Feature: Robert King
Featuring the poems:
Comparisons
Instructions
From the Book of Rope
One of Those Days
Aunts
In the Neighborhood
Poetry Feature: Jesse Kercheval
Featuring the poems:
Saving Silence
Napoleon Vu Par Abel Gance
Kurutta Ippeiji: A Page of Madness
Poetry Feature: Rebecca Black
Featuring the poems:
1790
Hiding the Silver
Hand-Me-Downs
Stomp Dancing
Bartram Among the Seminoles
Bartram’s Ghost
Poetry Feature: Brendan Galvin
Featuring the poems:
Brendan
Riffing Deciduous
Mystery Squid
A Buck’s Prints in Winter
Fogdog
New Cop
Poetry Feature: Eleanor Swanson
Featuring the poems:
Radium Girls
The Laboratory at Night
Marie Curie and Albert Einstein Hike in Engadine
Poetry Feature: Ellen Bass
Featuring the Poems:
And What If I Spoke Of Despair
Be Still My Heart
Gate C 22
3 A.M. Feeding
Poetry Feature: Nicholas Allen Harp
Featuring the poems:
X-Men
Quotients
Hypnosis
Frank Lloyd Wright & The Last Famished Mosasaur
Astronomy 101
Road Trip
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems: Sheep Fair Day Suzanna K. Dances Flow When Maura Had Died Winter Heart
Poetry Feature: Martin Scott
The Isenheim Resurrection
Cemetary By the Deer Blind
Richard Mather Aboard the James, 1635
Anatomy of Resurrection
Chrome Horse
Poetry Feature: David Tucker
City Editor Looking For News
My Father Taking Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
Downsizing
And This Just In
You Know
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Anna Gosetti
from Other Cartesian Medetations [View Details]
from Arts for Things Real and Imagined
Poetry Feature: Margo Tamez
Featuring the poems: Romantic Valentine’s ay The Sound of Doves On the Wing Romantic A bull snake’s six-foot coil muscles the soil in curls and messes. His tail is narrow, pointed and taut. I’m relieved he’s not a rattler. …
Poetry Feature: George Bilgere
Featuring the poems: Eden Waiting Nectarines Anywhere Pain Eden When Sarah and Jill, after a few years Together, decided Sarah should become a man, They thought about it for a long time, Staring at Sarah’s breasts in the …
Poetry Feature: Camille Dungy
Featuring the poems Before My History Classes In His Library Vo-Tech From Someplace How Quickly He Went Lament Before My History Classes Grandpa was coming to visit that night, and my sister wore blue jeans and a blouse. In …
Poetry Feature: Anna Meek
Featuring the poems: Morphology Hand Langue De Femme Heirloom Cookbook and Guide for Modern Living
Poetry feature: Ryan Van Cleave
from Glory: The Civil War Sonnets [View Details]
Capitalism [View Details]
Grant Defeated at Belmont, MO??November 1861 [View Details]
104th Ohio Infantry [View Details]
Dogrobber [View Details]
Clean [View Details]
Skirmish Near Ducktown, TN–August 1864 [View Details]
Turnspit [View Details]
Poetry feature: Timothy Liu
The Marriage [View Details]
To Woo the Nuptial Woe [View Details]
The Assignation [View Details]
The Beauty of Anonymous Men [View Details]
To Autumn [View Details]
Poetry feature: Bob Hicok
Manners [View Details]
Truth About Love [View Details]
Bottom of the Ocean
Poetry Feature: Ellen Hinsey
Featuring the poems: XII. MEDITATION: On the Struggle with the Angel XIII. COMMENTARY: Thirteen Aphorisms on the Nature of Evil DIALOGUE: On the Dream of the Celestial Ladder XXI. COMMENTARY: On the 13 Rungs of Sorrow XX. MEDITATION: On Feeling …
Poetry Feature: Jack Heflin
The Cat Scan
The Bad Caddie
Pan-Olympic Mid Life
Friday Night Fights
Elegy
Poetry Feature: Davis McCombs
Featuring the Poems: Mooncalves Freemartin [This poem was featured as Poem of the Week, January 15, 2008] Dismantling the Cave Gate Stephen Bishop’s Grave Cave Mummies Broken Country
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Michael Hecht
How To Go Home
A Victorian Construction
Totem and Taboo
Trostky’s Hand
Swamp Thing
Flashlight Stories
Winner of the 1999 Editor’s Prize in Poetry Flashlight Stories I. The women in this family play pinochle, smoke, toss back salted nuts with the dregs of their drinks. Ethel, Gladys, Esther, Vesta, Effie—names you can’t imagine …
Poetry Feature: Adrie Kusserow
Featuring the Poems: Crossing Borders Hunting Down the Monk Orphanage, Missionaries of Charity, Kathmandu, Nepal Bulimia Religiosa Confession
Poetry Feature: Susan Terris
Featuring the Poems: Reunion Twelve: Rough and Unsugared Thirteen: The Iron Handle of Innisfree Fourteen: Bedtime Story Fifteen: Running Goose-Eye Sixteen: Tolling the Bell
Poetry Feature: Mori Creech
Featureing the Poems: On the Nature of Starlings The Heaven of Memory Vernacular Landscape of Heaven Honey and John the Baptist Dogwood Provision
Poetry Feature: Jeffrey Levine
Featuring the Poems: Dawn, With Cardinals One Month Before His 50th Birthday Penelope Draws from Life It Turns Out Circe Has Something of a Past Telemachos in San Miguel
Poetry Feature: Jeff Worley
Featuring the following poems: Joy Lies Some Observations While Recovering from Surgery
Poetry Feature: Charles Simic
Featuring the following poems: Angel Tongue Burning Edgar Poe Looking for Trouble The Tunneling Miss X Madge Put On Your Tea Kettle
Poetry Feature: Eric Pankey
Featuring the following poems: The Cold War Bygones The Anniversary Cenotaph Underdrawing To the Magpie on the Roof of the Manger The Cold War My mother nods off. A lit cigarette Elegant between her long fingers. The arm of …
Poetry Feature: Nicole Cooley
Featuring the Poems: An Alphabet of Lessons for Girls John Winthrop, “Reasons to be Considered for…the Intended Plantation in England,” 1629 Witness Tree Witch Research: The Essex County Museum Testimony: The Parris House Testimony: Escape, July 30, 1692 An Alphabet …
Poetry Feature: Adrian C. Louis
Featuring the following poems: Song of Arrows Jungle Jim Juice Valentine from Inidan Country
Poetry Feature: Henry Taylor
Featuring the following poems: Brilliance A Little Respect Brilliance The first time I heard one adult call another a genius, my father was speaking of a man whose face I don’t recall. All I have is the memory of an …
Syphilis Diaries: Nine Fragments
i. Elizabeth: a sailor’s wifeThe Spaniards arriving in that septentrional part of America, about the latitude of Florida, soon got taint of this Disease, and after a year or two of roving there, in 1494, they returned home well frought with this …
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Featuring the poems: True North Prayer and the Pain of Backs Darker Without the Herons
Poetry Feature: David Clewell
Featuring the poems: In 1962 Redemption Was in the Air Going Wrong in the House of Neptune Make Way for the Men of Science
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
Featuring the poems: Hostelries Elegy for Lost Waters First Visit to my Mother’s Grave, North Side Catholic Cemetery Deed
Poetry Feature: Michael Pettit
Winner of the 1997 Editors’ Prize in Poetry. Featuring the poems: The Menemsha Bell Endless Nights of Rain The Weather of Heaven The Red Swing First Snowfall Good Luck Cottages The Menemsha Bell Ah the world. And us here, …
Poetry Feature: Bob Hicok
Featuring the poems: Commission by Attrition Out of Nothing Pythagoras in the Nursing Home Book Report
Poetry Feature: Gary Fincke
Featuring the poems: The Uses of Rain Schmaltz During Sixth Grade The End of Uncertainty The Uses of Rain We sat, in geography, for nine weeks With water, a marking period of rain. We followed the dittoed diagrams Of water’s …
Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule Mammoth is a grand, gloomy and peculiar place, not soon to give up its last, darkest secret. -Stephen Bishop Stephen Bishop was the slave of Dr. John Croghan, owner of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave from 1839 to 1849. …
After the Fires We Once Called Vietnam
Here on these flat fields I remember napalm, that lavish charcoal lighter of a fat man’s barbecue. I’m like a pitcher with eyes in the back of his head who wore his ball cap backward, ignoring the signs his …
Where Native Grass Grows Loud If We Listen
Out here, cactus is the skyline, a hundred miles of flat. Turn in a circle and never know you’re back, except for the neighbor’s ranch, barns like specks of mica in the dust, his windmill a semaphore of warning, Go …
Cataracts
Clouds over Long’s Peak, the sky blue everywhere but there, and when I glance away and back, they’re gone. Imagine: I make the highest mountain disappear by tipping my head, even by shifting my eyes. Watch that herd of …
Fishing With Uncle Walter In World War Two
I remember the first tub of red racers I saw in a walled shed in Arkansas, down by the Ouachita. My uncle led us there when I was nine, my father, and another man with some 4-F condition or …
Where Once It Stood
I was looking for a horse, but there was no horse, only the feed barn and above it the purple meat of sky: the smell of birch smoke and burlap and grain. Yes, yes, now I remember. It was …
A Cup for Elijah
It is 1975, the year before my parents stop speaking. Old, rabbinical, Uncle Leo takes his glasses off to gesture, while on my shoulder my brother softly dozes. At last, triumphantly, my aunt holds the plate of offerings aloft. …
The Old Bear
Nelson Candy says he saw him cross the snowmobile trail which divides the field he recently hayed. “A white nose like an old dog’s,” he insists. They were hauling in strawberries, his wife and him. “Must be …
Twins and Oral History
If you think ground squirrels are fun, wait till you see a coyote. I’d never say that to grandsons, but even coyotes have to eat. So what do I tell their taped school project tomorrow? What idealistic …
Lagunitas, 1978
Always, it seems, it has been like this: the phone cradled on my mother’s shoulder, her too-loud boyfriend laugh. When she whispers fork and spoon windchimes jangle on fish line and from downslope comes the plaintive mewl of the …
That Silence When A Mountain Lion Attacks
Those puffy clouds in the Rocky Mountains could be gunfire, another time and place. Before this planet spins us back home to the plains, dozens will die by rockets or cannon fire, puffs like clouds the last skies …
The Music of the Mares
That winter I hauled frozen water buckets from the stalls to my stove, then warmed myself while listening to the aural sighs of wind coming through rag-jammed windows. After each storm, I shoveled a path from my door to …
Root
That night, Lily and her mother are home alone. Tom has gone to play poker with Ivan and the men. Gloria knows Ivan will clean him out, but has said nothing. After TV, Lily goes upstairs with her …
Flood
All day we watched it—my mother, brother, and I—the relentless wrath, the furious downpour of God. Our zucchini plants torn loose from the soil, lumber and stovepipe roiling in the creek. Mid-afternoon the bloated carcass of a muskrat sped …
The Memory Palace
for there is no place that does not see you. —Rilke THE DOORKNOB extends a hand in greeting. Like your hand, it’s scarred. When you shake it, you know: someone with small teeth has been trying to …
Poetry Feature: Walter Bargen
Featuring the following poems: Lost Ordnance Calculations Berlin Airlift
Poetry Feature: William Greenway
Winner of the 1997 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry. Featuring the following poems: The Train to Neath At Arthur’s Stone Teeth Will Be Provided Footpaths Now That It’s Over
Poetry Feature: David Baker
Featuring the poems:
Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, 1936
For the Others
A Recessional
The Art of Poetry
Poetry Feature: Daniel Halpern
Featuring the poems:
Family Reunion
Art
The Loneliness of Beautiful Women
Thaw
The Planes
The Loneliness of Beautiful Women
Poetry Feature: Jesse Lee Kercheval
Featuring the poems:
Love, a Dark, Untitled Comedy
Death, a Second Trip by Sea
August in My Neighbor’s Garden
World as Dictionary
Singing for Uncertain Singers
In the Garden with Green Chairs
Poetry Feature: Kevin Stein
Featuring the poems:
In the Room with Seventeen Windows
Revenant
What I Hate About Postmodernism
Poem Written Late Century, Full Moon at Treeline, San Juan Range, Colorado
Poetry Feature: Liz Rosenberg
Featuring the poems:
At the Wall of Flame
The Window
At Seventeen
At Eight A.M.
Hospital Elevator
What Endures
Fall Into Winter
Poetry Feature: Kathleen McGookey
Featuring the poems: Class Picture, My Grandmother As Teacher, 1922 Beldora Burrell Leda Simple Arithmetic Esther S.
Poetry Feature: James Harms
Featuring the poems: Elegy As Evening, As Exodus Decadence: Newport Beach, California In Any Country Mother To Daughter Copper Wire 20th Century Boy
Poetry Feature: Brian Taylor
Featuring the poems: Sirius Rising Heat Lightning Rhapsody Darkling, I Listen Rapunzel In Thebes Home Thoughts
Poetry Feature: Bin Ramke
Featuring the poems: Pretty Words, Parabolas As You Like It Enter Celia, with a Writing The Weather & The War in France A History of His Heart
Stillwater
Poem by Mandy Dowd. Originally appeared in Issue 18.1 (Spring 1995).
Winner of the 1995 Editors’ Prize for Poetry.
Poetry Feature: Rick Lyon
Featuring the poems: The Garden Rue Des Deux Ponts Crabapple The Pond The Dance The Devotions
Tom McAfee Discovery Feature: S. Ben-Tov
Featuring the following poems: Shah Jahan in Prison The Lighthouse The Arrival Gate Meteor Elegy The Gate of Babylon Turtle Beach
Tom McAfee Discovery Feature: Ruth Ellen Kocher
Featuring the following poems: Principle The First Monsoon Gustav’s Arc Drowning February Leaving The Long Arm Forward Variable
Poetry Feature: Gary Fincke
Featuring the following poems: Coughing Through The Brambles The Near-Death Fervor The One Birds The Wonderful Resolve to Breathe The Etymology of Angels
Poetry Feature: Rick Campbell
Featuring the poems:
To Jennifer, Thinking of Li Po
Setting Pins, 1996
Even the Ohio Can Change
On Missing the First Step on the Moon
The Spring in Tevebaugh Hollow
Morrison’s
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
Featuring the poems:
Night Moves
First Day
At the Steelworkers’ Monument During the 100th Anniversary of the Homestead Strike of 1892
The Employments of Time in Homestead
Poetry Feature: David Jauss
Featuring the poems:
Improvising Rivers
After the End of the World
The Master Musicians of Joujouka
Poetry Feature: Maureen Seaton
Featuring the poems:
* Theories of Illusion
* After Sinead O’Connor Appears on “Saturday Night Live,” the Pope
* Eggshell Seas
Poetry Feature: Walt McDonald
Featuring the poems:
* After the Random Tornado
* Farms at Auction
* Scanning the Range for Strays
* But it was Water
* Uncle Carl and the Art of Taxidermy
* After Fifty
* The Invention of Courage
* The Songs of Country Girls
Poetry Feature: David Wojahn
Featuring the poems:
* Elegy and Perisphere
* In Memory of Primo Levi
* Among the Joshua Trees
Poetry Feature: Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
Featuring the poems:
TO THE ONE READING ME
THE NIGHT THEY HELD A WAKE ON THE SOUTHSIDE
THE OTHER TIGER
TO A COIN
BRUNANBURH, 937 A.D.
BUENOS AIRES
Poetry Feature: Laura Kasischke
Featuring the poems:
Warning
Laundry
Thunder, Or A Place In The Sun
Local Legend
Theme park
Neon Jesus
Festival in The Park
A Kind of Darkness
The Rim
Poetry Feature: David Romtvedt
My Wife
Painting the Fence
Welcome
My Flame
Windows
The Radio
My Porch
Poetry Feature: Lola Haskins
El Cafe
Juan of the Angels
The Carver of Masks
Cuando Morimos
Three Views from the Latin American Summit
Lengthening Light
Poetry Feature: Gillian Conoley
* Fearsome
* Hidden Drive
* We Don’t Have to Share a Fate
* Elsewhere
Fallout
Winner of the 1992 Editors’ Prize for Poetry i. from Fukuoka to Kagoshima Bottom to top, blue fills the windowpane across the aisle as though our train rode on water. Where narrow strips of land interpose between the …
Poetry Feature: Kevin Stein
* Two Hungers
* Black Bread
* St. Andrew’s Catholic Men’s Choir, After Practice, at Blickwedels’s Tavern and Grocery
* Benefit Picnic, Cigar Makers’ Strike, August 1884
* Awaiting My Daughter’s Suitor
Poetry Feature: Michael Waters
Stoning the Birds
The ’66 Mets
Christ at the Apollo, 1962
First Lesson: Winter Trees
First Mile
Poetry Feature: David Clewell
Goodbye to Debbie Fuller: Pass It On
Lessons in Another Language
In Case of Rapture
Poetry Feature: Loretta Collins (Tom McAfee Discovery Feature)
These poems were presented as the Tom McAfee Discovery Feature (1992) El Dia De Los Muertos Hornitos, California for KevinSometimes I took the drive alone, past the burned flour and woolen mills near Lake McSwain. In the summer the ranch …
Poetry Feature: Sarah Gorham
Featuring the Poems: The Tension Zone Clear Air Turbulence Still Life: Sarasota, Florida Hot Water Tiptoe Water House, Shakertown Cautionary Tale, 3 A.M.
Poetry Feature: Gary Fincke
These poems are not currently available online. Booths Forecasting The Dragon Rounds Squaring The Twins
Poetry Feature: Liz Rosenberg
* New Days
* This Peaceful Street
* Clouds
* The Method
* Terror
* The Smallest Gesture
* Intensive Care Unit
* The New Life
Poetry Feature: Walter McDonald
Featuring the poems:
* Uncle Roy’s Pearl Harbor Hot Dogs
* Mounds at Estacado
* The Signs of Prairie Rattlers
* Rigging the Windmill
* Uncle Philip and The Endless Names
* Hawks in August
Poetry Feature: Bruce Bond
Featuring the poems:
* The Last Great Flood
* Acoustic Shadows
* Legacy
* Chinatown
* Book of the Living
Poetry Feature: James Solheim
Featuring the poems:
■The Fear-of-Toadstools Lady
■On the Logic and Radiation of Our Love
■Against Biography
■Return of the Fear-of-Toadstools Lady
Poetry Feature: Walter Bargen
Featuring the poems:
■Reporting in the Off Season
■Walking on Air
■Transmissions
■Birding in Costa Rica
■Zeno’s Cinema
■At A Glance
Poetry Feature: Roger Weingarten
Featuring the poems:
■Jungle Gliders
■Stomping the Beaver Palace
■Dear Mike
Poetry Feature: Penelope Austin
Featuring the poems: Aubade Moon Above the Twenties Club HTRC Presents Bobby Benton, Jan. 24, 1942: My Mother Sells Tickets Bringing in the Child Azaleas, 1989 Clandestine
Poetry Feature: James Tate
Featuring the poems: A Bar in Aspen Pimone, Stranded in the Countryside Porch Theory More About Peggy From an Island The Beach Summer, Maine Coast
Poetry Feature: Jonathan Holden
Featuring the poems: Bank The Parable of the Snow Man The Principle of Duality Late November The Crash
Poetry Feature: Pattiann Rogers
Featuring the poems: Three’s Charm Get on Board Seeing the God-statement More Recollection Fellfield By Death
Poetry Feature: Larry Levis
Featuring the Poems: To A Wren on Calvary Labyrinth As the Erasure of Cries Heard Within It Or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded…’Later) [Poem of the Week April 22, 2012] The Clearing of the Land As It Begins with a Brush …
Feature: Maureen Seaton
Featuring: Involved With This Light All Truth Must Conform to Music The Woman Too Large for the Chair Scandals: Karma, Karma Scandals: Wings Scandals: Stuffed
At the Lake
This poem was selected as a Poem of the Week (1/22/2008). At the Lake Even if the rain holds off awhile And our walk to the lake goes as we planned it, It won’t be one of the famous golden …
Poetry Feature: Stuart Friebert
Featuring the poems: Caesarean But Names Will Never Hurt You Little By Little
Poetry Feature: Lola Haskins
Featuring the poems: Django Of the Pleasures That May Be Discovered in Books, 1902
Poetry Feature: Jack Myers
Featuring the poems: Why Don’t You Ask Your Father? Fugue: I Don’t Know, You Probably Know Everything I Know
Poetry Feature: Pattiann Rogers
Featuring the poems: The Dead Never Fight Against Anything Taking Leave
Poetry Feature: Sandra McPherson
Some Schizophrenics As She Left Their Home The Stranger Melody Easter 1979
A Postcard in Memory of Donald Evans
Walking past a boatyard full of cradled sloops last night, I thought of you. Yellow portholes yielded the shoulders of somebody doing delicate work, floating perhaps, above a coast he hopes he will explore, or stilting his compass across the …
Letters from Poston Relocation Camp (1942-1944)—Letter 2
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry Feature: Michel Englebert
Featuring the poems: The Story That Haldemann Julius Told Jack Ruby Believed
Poetry Feature: Eamon Grennan
Includes the poems:
The Cycle of Their Lives
Walking to Work
Traveller
Conjunctions
A Lack of Epitaphs
Poetry Feature: Gardner McFall
Featuring the poems:
Field Trip to Fort Story
Four Corners
Blue Raft
Identity
How Deep the Hook
My first job out of college, was as a chief reporter for the Idaho Free Press, circulation 6,000. I handled obituaries, city hall, school board, and sports page.
Poetry Feature: Lisa Lewis
Featuring the poems: Red Ribbon Winter Wheat Cloud Light The Innocent Embrace
Night Waitress
[This text is available online as part of our TextBox anthology.] This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry Feature: Michael S. Harper
Featuring the poems: Zimmerhouse [Poem of the Week October 30, 2012] Flight to Canada
Poetry Feature: Pattiann Rogers
Featuring the poems: For the Wren Trapped in a Cathedral The Favorite Dance of the Deaf and Blind Beggar
Tom McAfee Discovery Feature: Jeffrey Harrison
Featuring the following poems: For a Friend in the Hospital Arrival at the Cabin Hornet’s Nest Returning to Cuttyhunk Poem Butterflies The Peacock Flounder
Poetry Feature: Sandor Csoori
Featuring the poems: You Were Still the Sun’s There Summer Haloed Sunday Before Christmas E.K.’s Will
Poetry Feature: Yusef Komunyakaa
Featuring the poems: How I See Things Too Pretty for Serious Business
The Skokie Theatre
Twelve years old and lovesick, bumbling and terrified for the first time in my life,but strangely hopeful, too, and stunned, definitely stunned—I wanted to cry, I almost started to sob when Chris Klein actually touched me—oh God—below the belt in …
Poetry Feature: Michael Pettit
Featuring the following poems: Watson at the Railroad Crossing Watson Quits the Track Home Again
Arroyo
A child looks down the ditch that is childhood and wonders how long it goes on: weeds walking out of the loved desolation, mica winking in the killer sun. All morning, she had dragged her horseshoe magnet through the sand, …
Poetry Feature: William Trowbridge
Featuring the following poems: G.I. Joe from Kokomo Sunday School Lesson from Capt. Daniel Mayhew, USAAF, Ret.
Lichtenstein
to Audrey Rugg Two white whales, the father and the bolster That he hugs, rolling his sour stomach for relief Until the medicine becalms. Something he ate. High up in the hotel room the roof beams, Carved with bluebirds and …
Poetry Feature: Jane Miller
Featuring the poems: Meadow with Standing Crows Imitation at Twilight Meadow with Standing Crows After living in the sprouting desert there is nothing like the thought of sweet rain falling into a salty bay. Rather than bear the farthest …
The Assimilation of the Gypsies
In the background, a few shacks & overturned carts And a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent. And here the crowd of onlookers, though a few of them Must be intimate with the victim, Have been advised to …
Poetry Feature: David Barber
Featuring the following poems: Sudden Clarity at the Artichoke Stands Small Hours
Poetry Feature: Michael Pettit
Featuring the following poems: Sparrow of Espanola Virginia Evening So long, Tuscaloosa
Poetry Feature: Dino Campana
Featuring the poems:
From Orphic Songs
Voyage to Montevideo
Autumn Garden
In the Mountains
Song of Darkness
Poetry Feature: George Bogin
Featuring the poems:
A Sunday at the Beach, 1938
A Summer Night on Long Island
Poetry Feature: Katherine Kane
Featuring the poems:
The Arriviste
The Rabbi Said Never Go to Bed Angry
Poetry Feature: Kathy Fagan (Tom McAfee Discovery Feature)
Featuring the poems:
A Summer Song Cycle
The Raft
Evangelist & Peregrine
Five Poems of Farewell
Poetry Feature: Stephen Dunn
Featuring the poems: Visions Candles Insomnia From Port Authority Middle Class Poem Legacy
Poetry Feature: Ricardo Castillo
Featuring the poems: Some Reflections Beginning with the Disproportionate Length of My Feet Ode to the Urge
Poetry Feature: Jeanie Thompson
Featuring the poems: Birch Street: 1960 At the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge
Poetry Feature: Ginger Bingham
Featuring the poems: Airstream Trailer Songs of the Typing School The Calendar at Avery’s
Poetry Feature: Marvin Bell
Featuring the poems: Balsa Great Leaning Ferns A View in the Rain Shoulders of Tropical Rain
Poetry Feature: Gregory Orr
Featuring the poems: Padua Bright Light: Blank Page The Gray Fox Walking a Small, Frozen River in Sunlight
Poetry Feature: Marvin Bell
Featuring the poems: Some Shadows What They Do To You In Distant Places Where Is Odysseus From And What Was He Before He Left For The Trojan War At The Airport Florence
We Shall All Be Born Again but We Shall Not All Be Saved
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry Feature: David Wojahn
Featuring the poems:
Porchlights
The Last Couples Leaving the Green Dolphin Bar
Poetry Feature: Agha Shahid Ali
Featuring the poems:
An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little
The Wolf’s Postscript to “Little Red Riding Hood”
Poetry Feature: Robert Lietz
Featuring the poems: Thanksgiving Weekend: The Last Touch Football For the Twenty-fifth Season Women Drinking Beer
Poetry Feature: Stephen Tapscott
Featuring the poems: In the Darkness of the Body Irises Because She is Pregnant and Full of Her California
Poetry Feature: Lawrence Kearney
Feautring the poems: Mother, Along in the Attic. Dead on His Feet in Lackawanna
Poetry Feature: Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924. Her books of poetry include Alive Together: New & Selected Poems (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Learning to Play by Ear (1990); Waving from Shore (1989); Second Language (1986); The …
Poetry Feature: Maxine Kumin
Featuring the poems: Anger The Poets Observe the Absence of God from the St. Louis Zoo The Poets Observe the Absence of God from the St. Louis Zoo November, that time of year the Lord created and forgot, the big …
On the Last Performance of Musume Dojoji at the Nippon-Kan of the Astor Hotel, Seattle Washington
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry Feature: Susan Wood
Featuring the poems: I Want to Believe It Elegy for my Sister After You As it Happens
Poetry Feature: David Wagoner
Featuring the poems: By a Lost Riverside My Mother’s Garden My Father’s Garden Weeds
Poetry Feature: Stephen Dunn
Featuring the Poems: From the Monastery of Work and Love — From an Upstairs Window After Losses
Poetry Feature: Tomi Nagai
Featuring the Poems: The Rabbit in the Moon Collecting White Radish The Calligrapher
Poetry Feature: Lisel Mueller
Featuring the poems: One More Hymn to the Sun Eggs Picking Raspberries
Poetry Feature: TMR Staff
Featuring the poems:
Nature Poem: Demanding Stiff
Sentences
Riven Doggeries
Poetry Feature: Robert Bly
Featuring the poems:
Walking the Mississippi
Shore at Rock Island, Illinois