Poetry

"Hansel": A Poem by Lea Graham

"In old Icelandic: / the joining of hands."

Jul 5

"Short Song" and One Other Poem by Nathaniel Mackey

"So spoke the / A string, rubbed and let / go"

Jun 28

"Public Works" and Another Poem by David Kaufmann

"This poem is a poem that takes you by / The arm"

Jun 14

"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid

"She looked at the woodsman’s ax / and its edge…"

Jun 7

"Psalm": A Poem by Lea Graham

"a tendril, a vine, a branch / from home I send to you"

May 31

"12th March 1876" and Two More Poems by Janet Sutherland

"Is there an animal, he asked, more heaven-sent than this?"

May 24

Don’t Be No Ghost: Snapshots of Amiri Baraka

Aldon Lynn Nielsen remembers Amiri Baraka

May 21

"Dear Greenland, We're Sorry" and Another Poem by John Gallaher

"The king might die. / The horse might die. I might die. Whatever."

May 17

"Breath on the Pane" and "Drawing Lessons": Poems by Rachel Hadas

"dive into the image that we choose, / or that chose us"

May 10

Translation: Bring a Stone to Your Chest, New Poems by Franca Mancinelli

Translated from the Italian by John Taylor

May 7

"Gradual Psalms" and "Poems on These Days" by Jorge Sánchez

"the thin soup of the fog / of the world"

Apr 30

"Blackthorn": A Poem by Ernest Hilbert

"This happened once / Before. So long ago. So long."

Apr 23

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