Poems

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  • Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

    During the war and for some time after the war
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Oh, darling in the distance
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Autumn again, and I side with Szymborska
  • Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated from Hebrew by Rachel Neve-Midbar

    I am not holding a mirage
  • Godscan

    The sun is the size of a human foot.
  • Three Poems

    Typos   Word instead of wood but, sodden, it smoked when it burned. I wrote god for good who was, once–– in my childhood years, crowned with the nimbus of that capital G–– but now tends to be a placeholder for nightmare, tears. Seeking solace in the pastoral, but grove came out as grave and the lymph nodes, irradiated, naked

  • Two Poems

    A rectangular tray materializes, made
  • Sestina for an Idiom

    I was fifteen and all fights with my father ended
  • Abramovic

    The eyes are the edge of the central nervous system.
  • “Denise to the Rescue” and “Needs Art”

    Hello, this is Denise, your Poem Advocate DO NOT
  • Two Poems

    In a blue wool cape and pearl earrings
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I don’t know what the crows were arguing over