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Poems of the Week: 2009 - 2010

  • Dana Levin

    Motionless at the window. Forehead beaded with a line of fevered moons.

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  • Rolf Jacobsen

    The roads have come to an end now, they don’t go any farther.

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  • Ashley Skabar

    It was the truth of it all—hunger’s chill, the scream beneath the surface.

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  • Jenny Factor

    Who mind loved would not rather be loved body too. Since all is all.

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  • Lucille  Clifton

    She is a stalk, exhausted. She will surround these bones with flesh.

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  • Hayden Carruth

    The ego with which we began filters away as love accumulates below.

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  • Meghan Dunn

    What would you say about the driver of the truck that killed you?

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Poems of the Week: 2009 - 2010
Poem of the Week
  • Mark Bibbins
    Bring Us a Souvenir
    from the Next War
  • Olga Broumas
    The Choir
  • Hayden Carruth
    Testament
  • Lucille Clifton
    The Book of Light
  • Meghan Dunn
    Second Anniversary
  • Odysseas Elytis
    From “The Monogram”
  • Jenny Factor
    Mind Loves
  • Susan Griffin
    Unremembered Country
  • Hồ Xuân Hương
    Autumn Landscape
  • Rolf Jacobsen
    Road’s End
  • Richard Jones
    The Sweater
  • Shirley Kaufman
    Amazement
  • Dana Levin
    Fever
  • Pablo Neruda
    From The Book
    of Questions
  • Lisa Olstein
    My Only Life
  • Alberto Álvaro Ríos
    The Dangerous Shirt
  • Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    The Ninth Dream:
    War (in the City
    in Which I Live)
  • Ashley Skabar
    What We Learned
  • Connie Wanek
    Bald Eagle
  • Wei Ying-wu
    Events on
    West Stream:
    For Lu She
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