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Waiting for a call that didn’t happen I am sitting on the back porch with Frank O’Hara (Collected) when a goldfinch lands beside my head on the porch rail, lands so neatly so insta...

“Any Younger,” by Natalie Shapero

“Only some of me / is here on Earth.”

“Elegy for the Penny,” by Catherine Bowman

“What will I give you now / for your thoughts.”

“Enjambment,” by Megan Fernandes

“Oh, / thing, poor thing, little thing, thing thinging, thing is / a beautiful mess.”

“Cul-de-Sac,” by Andrea Cohen

“Like all tyrants, / my mother made / decrees.”

Short Conversations with Poets: Carolina Ebeid

Hide is the name of Carolina Ebeid’s second collection of poetry, and a sign of that can be found in the range of possibilities echoing in that simple word. An imperative, an activ...

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

Immersed in verse

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt...

How to Bear Your Desolations

"You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive."

“Cereus,” by Henri Cole

“After the box wine, the chicken thighs, and Nancy’s spice cake, / we lounged around talking of poetry, manure, and flowers.”

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

"Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars."

“Review to Remember,” by Terrance Hayes

“You argued whether one had to lie to dream, / the tensions between charm & narcissism, / & the existence of Time with everyone younger than you.”

The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

Lyrik: Warum so kompliziert, Ann Cotten?

Den Freaks im Weltall Mut zusprechen: Die Lyrikerin Ann Cotten fräst sich durch die Sprache und leimt die Späne neu zusammen. mehr...

Claudia Rankine Plays Dead

In “Triage,” the writer explores how we should respond—or, perhaps, not respond—to a world in crisis.

A genius encumbered by loss: A haunted Jewish poet is brought back to life

Do Not Spare Yourself

The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointme...

A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go

The vital force of life is charged by the poles of holding on and letting go. We know that the price of love is loss, and yet we love anyway; that our atoms will one day belong to...

BETWEEN ONE THING AND ITS OTHER

Contogenis explores themes of family, trauma, and death in these bittersweet poems. In “Giddy Green,” the speaker reflects on the effort to capture fleeting sensations and the ordi...

The Collar

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“I Who Have Never Known Men” and “We Were Forbidden,” Reviewed

Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.

Named & Nameless by Susan McCaslin

The first is an excerpt from the Hymn to Inanna, an ancient praise song to the Sumerian goddess (more on her later). The second is from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching concerning the meanin...