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  • Poets and Translators Speak

    Jody Stewart on   “While Kicking Her Heels” and “A Given”: something about the decorum and half-hidden secrets of a waiting…

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

    During the war and for some time after the war

  • Update: Five Days in the Pandemic, from In Lieu of Flowers:  A Quarantine Collaboration by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wad

    Yesterday afternoon, while we were giving our Zoom reading for O, Miami, the social worker from the nursing home called my sister to say my mother would be tested today for coronavirus.

  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Oh, darling in the distance

  • Fearless Now & Nameless; a tour de force from poet and musician and shapeshifter Jon Davis by Nancy Mitchell

    Three epigraphs, from Wallace Stevens, Basho, and Louise Glück open your new book, Fearless Now & Nameless. What themes do these epigraphs announce?

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • Two Poems

    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

  • Three Poems

    Woman in Drugstore, Receptionist, Counter Lady with Change for a Quarter, Clubwoman, Saleslady, Train Passenger

  • Geffrey Davis’s “One Wild Word Away” reviewed by P.W. Bridgman

    Trauma is “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower” of Geffrey Davis’s poetry

  • Ten Days After the Dobbs Decision

    The possum loped into view, pouch dragging slow