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Stories

Classics
The Truth the Dead Know
by Anne Sexton
No one’s alone. Men kill for this, or for as much. And what of the dead?
Poem of the Week
The Unwed Mother
by Hồ Xuân Hương
Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it!
Poetry
The Visiting Room
by Caits Meissner
We spread. Kneel. We’ll come out missing parts. This we know.
Poetry
The Way the Light Reflects
by Richard Siken
Some people see the man but not the light, the field but not the varnish.
Classics
The Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
One said she heard the jazz-band sob when the little dawn was grey.
Poem of the Week
The Wild Boar
by Peter Filkins
We’d hit something in the dark which—bang!—was there and gone.
Poetry
The Wilderness around Us and Other Poems
by Gwendolyn Ann Hill
In the backyard I submerge myself in a bathtub of soil, soak with the hose.
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Poem of the Week
The Witching Hour
by Taya Kitaysky
I crouched just like my mother burying nail clippings to ward off curses.
Poem of the Week
The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
I was dusty, my ponytail all askew and the tips of my fingers ran red.
Poem of the Week
The Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded
by Monica Sok
This is the woman who had shrunk so small, nobody could find her.
Poem of the Week
The Writer
by Boomer Pinches
He came into town with his big red pen and began revising us.
Poem of the Week
Theater of War
by Jeffrey Brown
Ajax killed men and then animals thinking they were men.
Poem of the Week
Then, It Was So
by Javier Zamora
I waited and waited, rethinking first sentences in my sleep.
Poetry
Theory of Everything and Other Poems
by James Richardson
My books, I can hardly read them, they make so much sense.
Poetry
Three Poems
by James Richardson
Is that coffee you have, or the hell of fusion in your cupped hands?
Poem of the Week
There but for the Grace of God Go I, Tethered by Human Sympathy
by J. P. Grasser
Grasshoppers tumble from the reeds, snapping like electricity.
Poem of the Week
Thermodynamics
by Jeff Whitney
Bees kill wasps by gathering around and tightening in the middle.
Poem of the Week
They Say the Heart Wants
by Danusha Laméris
The time a man kissed my hand when we met. Though he’s been dead for decades now, I still feel the kiss.
Poetry
They Were Blind and Other Poems
by Rooja Mohassessy
Fatwas condoned our arrest for the rouged contours of our lips.
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Poetry
They Who Loved the Smell of Burning
by Robert Hedin
By the time the sun was barely over the trees, they’d started burning.
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Poem of the Week
Thigh and Digression
by Emily Walter Seitz
Euclid stands in front of his lover’s door, open to the last hours of light.
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Poetry
Things on Which I’ve Stumbled
by Peter Cole
Poem of the Week
Third Charm from “The Masque of Queens”
by Ben Jonson
The moon it is red, and the stars are fled but all the sky is a-burning.
Poetry Contest Winners
This Close to Dark
by Brian Tierney
I could go in for some pie why the hell not, there’s so little time.
Poetry
This Sort of Thing Happens All the Time
by Maggie Smith
You’re standing too close to a lit house which could be yours—is it yours?
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Poem of the Week
This Summer
by Jaan Kaplinski
Hear the voice of life telling you something from the inside out.
Poetry
This Wednesday
by Katie Condon
Where is the door that will take us to the world where memory lives?
Poem of the Week
Three Children Covered Half by a Thumb
by Emma Aylor
Like every thing made, the photograph intimates a view.
Poetry
Three Poems
by Willa Carroll
My mother is queen of buttons. She shows off the prized ones.
Poetry
Three Poems
by Sherman Alexie
Is anybody out there? Nobody answered, and I felt archaic as prayer.