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Stories

Poetry
Weak Winter Sun
by Jim Harrison
I have been enshrouded for months by the weak winter sun.
Poem of the Week
Webcam the World
by Heather McHugh
Get all of it. Set up the shots. Get beautiful stuff and get the ugliness.
Poetry Contest Winners
Weddings of One
by Matthew Gellman
People write vows for their weddings of one.
Poem of the Week
Wednesday Afternoon at the Eight-Ball Saloon
by John F. Buckley
Someone seems to have made an excellent age-specific insight.
Poetry
Wellfleet
by Boomer Pinches
This morning drifts of sand hissed along the shore like mist.
Poem of the Week
Wet Man
by Nicholas Goodly
I will make my own man I will stitch together a coat of drunk minks
Poem of the Week
What Dad Said
by Rachel Kessler
We need to stop talking about it, we need to put some pants on.
Poetry Contest Winners
What Dark Tastes Like and Other Poems
by Anne Haven McDonnell
Bright rot laces the air, light sharpens each leaf. On our way to fallow, fire.
Poem of the Week
What Do the Hands Remember?
by Kathryn Hunt
The hands opened calmly like seeds, endured the passage of time.
Poem of the Week
What Gary Snyder Said to Me, That Day, in the Doorway of the Milking Barn
by Daniel Smith
You need to teach these cows to meditate. To lose their bodies.
Poetry
What It Requires
by Sharon Olds
I am part dumb, and blind, and deaf, and untasting and unfeeling.
Poetry
What My Father Taught Me about the Snow
by Chelsea Woodard
In this plummeting weather there is nothing to do but lean in.
Poem of the Week
What They Found
by Sarah Lindsay
Her city, but no cats. Specks of color, no cloth.
Poem of the Week
What This Elegy Wants
by Sara Elkamel
It wants to name the dead—without a name you wander lost in the sky.
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Poem of the Week
What We Have
by Ruth Stone
It was spring: the field, a botanist’s mirage of wild flowers.
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Poem of the Week
What We Learned
by Ashley Skabar
It was the truth of it all—hunger’s chill, the scream beneath the surface.
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Poem of the Week
What We Once Needed to Know
by Josh Rathkamp
We are good at thinking we can stay. We are good at finding hurt.
Poem of the Week
What You Mistook as Ultimatum
by Tyler Allen Penny
Wrung taut & tender at the soft play of fingertips, we breathe desires. Laughter takes refuge in bodies no longer coaxed to move. Nature becomes a thought.
Poetry
What?
by Daniel Halpern
These sounds for you, verbs of attraction. Matters of tense.
Poem of the Week
Whatever Is the Matter
by Kenzie Allen
There is something on my mind rushing up as river in a locked car.
Poetry
Whatever You Can
by Taije Silverman
Cat food smells even unopened like vomit and I don’t trust cats.
Poetry
What’s Happening
by Lauren K. Watel
Where will we go and how will we steer when the cars are gone?
Poem of the Week
When Giving Is All We Have
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are green.
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Poetry
When He Left: Index of First Lines
by Anne Marie Rooney
What I became was not pretty. Like a needle on water-warped paper.
Poetry
When I Lose and Other Poems
by Richard Kenney
Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.
Poem of the Week
When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing
by Jessica Lee
I wouldn’t know what to do with the body, gills pumping like an accordion.
Poem of the Week
When My Alabama
by William Fargason
there is no place on this earth I can run from my own prejudice
Poem of the Week
When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness
by William Fargason
it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him
Poem of the Week
When Things That Never Happen Happen
by Bob Hicok
The next time we made love, I looked for the fox looking down at me.
Poem of the Week
When You Write the Story
by Edward Hirsch
When you write the story of being a father don’t leave out the joy.