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  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Poem

    I’m going to pretend I’m a painter and just
  • The Afterlife of Breath

    My father dead on the gurney
  • Notes From Sick Rooms

    Who really wants to be a caregiver?
  • The homeless roamer translated from Dutch by Arno Bohlmeijer

    Someone says I don’t know and the whole
  • Blond for All the Boys

    Frank Ocean didn’t mean anything to me till Dave said check
  • Three Poems

    I was four or five, bored by the dull terrain
  • Stages on a Journey Westward

    All the mapmakers in history
  • Molt & Clean Water Act

    Neither here nor there, you don’t fit. 
  • Three Ibises in the Rain

    That’s how it was early this morning--
  • Essay with a Grain of Salt

    Salt on black silk
  • While Another Dove Nude into the Breakers

    One talked with a talisman