Poems

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  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not
  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—
  • Refugee & Existential

    I read the Spanish for any clue,
  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,
  • THE DAY

    History sings “misery, misery.”
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems
  • Geese

    More dream now than memory, though memory is all it is: after an early dinner, I’m dropping them off at their
  • Two Exhausted Bodies

    My insides are a flooded field. Though the field outside is larger and I have played there, laid
  • Sky Grief

    Arizona and the Black Canyon
  • National Poetry Month

    I stand before you today to speak about
  • Swishing Tails of Horses, October

    Mine, says the glorious yearling claiming