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Poetry

Poetry
From Deluge
by Leila Chatti
I bled. God didn’t want to hear about it. He said unclean and so it was.
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From End of Empire
by Marissa Davis
I turned—a peculiar triumph—as ruin succumbed to the ruin it birthed.
Poem of the Week
From Flood Song
by Sherwin Bitsui
The meeting hall of their bodies piled on lawns caked with dying birds.
Poem of the Week
From Here
by Karen Harryman
The keys look like Tommy’s teeth once he began to appreciate meth.
Poem of the Week
From Letters to Yesenin
by Jim Harrison
…a classmate dropped dead, his heart was attacked at thirty-three.
Poetry
from long life hotel
by mal profeta
i learned to save lives from a man who reminded me of my father
Poetry
From Mary Is a River
by Rachel Jamison Webster
I walked that land with him, one and mingling, breaking into breath.
Poetry
From Notes at the Grave of James Felix Quigley
by James Kelly Quigley
Out there, my father captains a boat tour below the Cliffs of Moher
Poem of the Week
From One with Days
by C. D. Wright
This was his sky, his clouds rucked up over the fields. His country.
Poem of the Week
From Rising, Falling, Hovering
by C. D. Wright
We cannot leave it to the forces to rub out the color of the world.
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Poetry
From Sonnets to the Humans
by T. Zachary Cotler
Poetry
From Take Me to Stavanger
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Into the storm, the iridescent cosmos. To the savage dances of sunset.
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Poem of the Week
From The Book of Questions
by Pablo Neruda
Why is the sun such a bad companion to the desert traveler?
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Poem of the Week
From The Dream We Carry
by Olav H. Hauge
You’ve gathered more knowledge than you’d need for nine lives.
Poem of the Week
From The Erotic Philosophers
by Carolyn Kizer
It was our flesh with its deadly sweetness that led them on.
Poem of the Week
From The Invention of Mathematics
by Amy Uyematsu
She already knew that deafening silence of a call gone unanswered.
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From The Judas Ear
by Anna Journey
Don’t try to find me by spit, by genetic sleuthing, by Are you my?
Poetry
From The Victor Poems
by Anthony Caleshu
It was only a matter of time before the damp of loss grew within us like moss.
Poetry
From the World-Womb of Our Impending Doom
by Spencer Hanvik
The body passing through its own fires, the hard escape of it all.
Poetry
From Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung
How do we heal our savage hearts, foolish wrath gone rogue on any soul.
Poetry
From Winter’s Apprentice
by Bruce Bond
A ripple across the darker fathom, no sooner there than torn away.
Poetry
From “A Poppy in My Hair”
by Moon Chung-hee
At 35,000 feet, the center of heaven, in the deep Milky Way, we meet.
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From “All the Great Territories”
by Matthew Wimberley
You try to confess your crime of turning the world into words.
Poem of the Week
From “An Essay on Criticism”
by Alexander Pope
’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike.
Poem of the Week
From “Call It in the Air”
by Ed Pavlić
He told me that he knows a parent’s grief for a dead child.
Poem of the Week
From “Doppler Elegies”
by Ben Lerner
Why am I always asleep in your poems? Look at me Ben, when am I.
Poem of the Week
From “Dragonfly Landing”
by Sung Po-jen
Four wings of silk without a trace of dust perched upon a silken line.
Poetry
From “Fall Line”
by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.
Poem of the Week
From “Home/Front”
by Philip Metres
What consequence is a body/a body nonetheless. If the light in me is gone.
Poem of the Week
From “In Memoriam”
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light.