Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Poem of the Week

• Chris AbaniWar Widow
• Maram al-MassriFrom A Red Cherry
  on a White-Tiled Floor
• Taha Muhammad AliTwigs
• Erin BelieuI Heart Your Dog’s Head
• Lillian-Yvonne BertramAm Looking For
• Mark BibbinsBring Us a Souvenir
  from the Next War
• Olga BroumasThe Choir
• Hayden CarruthTestament
• Scott ChallenerThe Fact Checkers
• Lucille CliftonThe Book of Light
• Meghan DunnSecond Anniversary
• Odysseas ElytisFrom “The Monogram”
• Jenny FactorMind Loves
• Peter FilkinsThe Wild Boar
• Jean FollainSolitaries
• James GalvinAs Is
• Susan GriffinUnremembered Country
• Hồ Xuân HươngAutumn Landscape
• Luisa A. IgloriaOn the Difficulty
  of Discerning Shapes
  in the Distance
• Rolf JacobsenRoad’s End
• Richard JonesThe Sweater
• Alice JonesOracle
• Jaan KaplinskiThis Summer
• Laura KasischkeThe Internet
• Shirley KaufmanAmazement
• Ben LernerThe Poetic Establishment
  Has Co-opted Contradiction
• Dana LevinFever
• Sarah LindsayLook Again
• Chloé Yelena MillerEstate Sale Next Door
• Tomás Q. MorínThe Family Artist
• Valzhyna MortTeacher
• Pablo NerudaFrom The Book
  of Questions
• Amy NewmanAn Incomplete Encyclopedia
  of Happiness
  and Unhappiness
• Barbra NightingaleTake It on a Wing
• Lisa OlsteinMy Only Life
• Dennis O’DriscollCassandra
• Alberto Álvaro RíosThe Dangerous Shirt
• Anne Marie RooneyInstructions for Wooing Me
  (Monster That I Am)
• Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Ninth Dream:
  War (in the City
  in Which I Live)
• Maurya SimonThe Skeletons
  in the Closet
• Ashley SkabarWhat We Learned
• Charlie SmithThe River
• Ann StanfordHolding Our Own
• Ruth StoneSorrow
• Joseph StroudCrossing the Island
• Terese SvobodaWhy Wane,
  Why Not Wax?
• Arthur SzeMistaking Water
  Hemlock for Parsley
• Chase TwichellThe Fork
  in the Moment
• Reetika VaziraniIt’s a Young Country
• Connie WanekBald Eagle
• C. D. WrightFrom Rising,
  Falling, Hovering
• Wei Ying-wuEvents on
  West Stream:
  For Lu She
• Matthew ZapruderAndale Mono