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  • The Last Phonebooth

    The last phone booth on the planet smells

  • Slow Thinker

    Audiences love the slow

  • Fish Belly Poem and a poem by Wang Yuyang translated by Arthur Sze

    Dr. Xia Kejun said today:

  • Security: A Q & A

    What was your favorite part-time job? What do you

  • February Elegy with Tulips on a Glass Table

    It’s the yellow dust inside the tulips.

  • Bear Sometimes Thinks He’s Dead & Shelf Life

    But lately he’s observed the Hermit Thrush

  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the

  • The Clacklet

    Buttons taken from a sewing box

  • At the Frick Collection in New York City

    Such a small work by Giambattista Tiepolo, Perseus and Andromeda

  • Sitting on an Old Bedspread Under an Oak Tree, Watching My Son’s Soccer Practice

    For reasons I can’t explain

  • Labyrinth (Lear)

    A poorly timed abdication. A madness

  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems