Poems

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  • Poem Beginning with a Line from Levis

    As if we’re put on the earth to forget the ending,
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

    There’s now a so-so year for you: 1933—
  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the
  • Poem in the Old Style

    At the beginning of the play Hecuba was mourning her great losses. She made lists, blamed the Gods: they could
  • Poem of the Quotidian

    Night falls so swiftly in this part of town
  • Poem to Circe IV

    Ancient bronzes, we reached the sea.
  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet
  • Poem with Ginger in it

    This rough hooked lump, this botched
  • Poems for the Absent One

    Mother death,
  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,
  • Poet at the Mall & Neuromythology

    Because language begins in body