Poems

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  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.
  • Toshno

    Marina is trying to describe Raskolnikov’s interior state
  • The Lost Explorers

    Give me the lost explorers, the last-seens,
  • Poetry: A Mirror, a Pencil and an Envelope. Seven Minutes with D. Nurkse and Nancy Mitchell

    In this candid interview, D. Nurkse reflects on a long life in poetry and political activism
  • At the Cemetery

    Cloud cover from horizon to horizon
  • The Cormorant

    They slip the string
  • Looking Back on My Libido

    It wasn’t love; it wasn’t even sex—
  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls
  • Liquidation

    Final closeout, clearance sale, you said:
  • What, Me?

    When we’re in a car together I worry we’ll die and the world will lose its role models.
  • Six Makeshift Trees Around My Bathtub

    Above our heads a vertical shadow
  • Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale (1660) and Matsumura Goshun, Crab (late 18th century)

    The storm dissolves the difference between wave,