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Stories

Poetry
The Baby
by Aaron Poochigian
There is a baby in the square, plumped down on Papa’s thigh.
Poetry
The Baby Survives
by Sam Stokley
Raw, glistening—god’s design. Her newborn flesh-on-the-bone.
Poem of the Week
The Bathroom Wall Says: Women
by Rosalie Moffett
It comes as no surprise that everything is flying toward one point.
Poem of the Week
The Birds
by William Carlos Williams
The blackbirds in the rain upon the dead topbranches notate the dawn.
Poem of the Week
The Blinding
by John Freeman
This poem weaves human and earthly hurt together in just a few short lines.
Poetry
The Bone Trees
by Shane Lake
The trees were a sign from the devil, a warning of the terror to come.
Poem of the Week
The Book of Light
by Lucille Clifton
She is a stalk, exhausted. She will surround these bones with flesh.
Poem of the Week
The Book of the Dead Man (Camouflage)
by Marvin Bell
Watch out. That we thought him gone only proves his wily knowledge.
Poetry
The Brute
by Jaia Hamid Bashir
I open the gift: a small ocelot, its mouth a cave, pearl teeth waiting.
Poem of the Week
The Buried Coal Miners at Sipesville
by John Glowney
Men veer into the earth and don’t come out. Silent choirs of canaries roost in a forest of chimneys.
Poem of the Week
The Call of the One Duck Flying South
by Laura Kasischke
If you didn’t listen you would think it was a cry for help or sympathy.
Poem of the Week
The Call of the Open
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The billows murmur at our feet, where the earth and ocean meet.
Poetry
The Children and Other Poems
by Kathy Fagan
Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.
Poem of the Week
The Choir
by Olga Broumas
I walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own.
Poem of the Week
The Church of the Crows
by Amy Miller
Black wings thrash in trees, then strafe me low, my head their devil.
Poetry
The Cliff
by Meghan Dunn
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Classics
The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
by Galway Kinnell
I have to say I am relieved it is over: at the end I could feel only pity.
Poem of the Week
The Couple Who Fell to Earth
by Michelle Bitting
We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.
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Poem of the Week
The Cows at Night
by Hayden Carruth
In that great darkness could I explain anything, anything at all.
Poem of the Week
The Crab
by J. H. Yun
We buy a bag of cockles and three crabs, all female, sweet with egg.
Poetry
The Crossing
by Amber Adams
The underworld reached out for your hand and found payment.
Poem of the Week
The Dangerous Shirt
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
The danger of the shirt—always, every moment, it is so obvious.
Poem of the Week
The Day Has Finished Waiting
by Cat Richardson
The day holds a cup of milk and sits on the couch, legs tucked up.
Poem of the Week
The Deer
by Rachel Mannheimer
In the truck’s bed, resting where a dog’s might—the dead deer’s head.
Poetry
The Detached and Other Poems
by Ha Jin
However hard I trudge and search I cannot find the hills I have climbed.
Poetry
The Distance
by Jacques J. Rancourt
Decay enters us through the eyes. As always I lose focus.
Poem of the Week
The Docent
by Cassandra Cleghorn
The flail is raised high, back bent in echo of the boys’ backs.
Poem of the Week
The Doe
by Leila Chatti
When I saw her, I was witness and weapon both, charging at her.
Poetry
The Dream of Adoration and Other Poems
by David Lee
The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.
Poetry
The Edith Poems
by Meg Freitag
When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.