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Poetry

Poem of the Week
On a Late June Evening in My Driveway
by Heather Sellers
Take some cherry tomatoes, I say when the moon rises over the pine.
Poetry
on a list of games that buddha would not play, number 12 is
by Stella Wong
so easily impressed when wet / so easy / to see through when turned / off
Poem of the Week
Oregon 1945
by Stella Wong
On a jet stream, unearthly, air can travel at hundreds of miles per hour.
Poem of the Week
On Birdsong
by Troy Jollimore
The hymn that’s resurrected from the hymnal aspires to the spiritual.
Poem of the Week
On Future Rhyming Fuck You with Fuck You Four Times in a Row During “Rent Money”
by J. D. Debris
The fantasy & its own undoing: that silver might drip from a neck bitten.
Poem of the Week
On Homesickness
by Sarah Ruhl
I hand in my form. I wonder if the doctor with the needles will laugh at me.
iPoems
On Privacy
by C. D. Wright
He pretended he was in his boat, his cellmate’s flushing, Arctic Ocean.
Poetry
On Seeing Damien Hirst’s “Kingdom of the Father”
by Laura Wetherington
Small valleys and veins give way to a lifted ridge like a rib or an arm bone.
Poetry
On the Aggrieved and Other Poems
by Michael Wasson
A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.
Poem of the Week
On the Horizon
by Michael Wasson
& I said let there be dark pouring from your mouth at daybreak
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Poem of the Week
On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance
by Luisa A. Igloria
Warm breath in my ear mouthing a name; rivulet folded back in water.
Poem of the Week
On the Fourteenth Day without a Father
by L. A. Johnson
In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.
Poetry
On the Isle of Fast-Flowing Waters
by JinJin Xu
My dear, even my ear is trying to eat itself in its attempt to forget you.
Poem of the Week
On the Meaning of Love
by Jay Deshpande
I needed more. I worked her lips back and wedged my hand in.
Poetry
On This Day in Poetry History
by Amy Newman
She was gone then, inaudible, steeple-reticent, demure as sky.
Poem of the Week
Once Again, in August
by Dan Gerber
I continue composing my love letter, hoping to love her more.
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iPoems
One
by Laurie Saurborn Young
Laurie Saurborn Young
Poetry
One More Day and Other Poems
by Elizabeth Metzger
There is a lot about others I don’t remember, outliving an interest.
Poem of the Week
One Says We
by Johann Sarna
Sometimes one does wade into it or is ambushed as by a incensed fog.
iPoems
One Whose Soul the Titan Has Fashioned
by L. S. Klatt
You are with outsized footnotes that have tracked across the Internet.
Poem of the Week
One Year Later: What to Fear More
by Amy Uyematsu
It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear
Poem of the Week
Only in Things
by W. S. Di Piero
How do wheels and wind-trash weave us into wakefulness?
Poem of the Week
Only When
by Paul Celan
As a shadow I arouse you will you believe the truth of my mouth.
Poem of the Week
Oracle
by Alice Jones
Put out to pasture, flop down into clover, alternate to the glue factory.
Poem of the Week
Orange Berries Dark Green Leaves
by John Taggart
It is like the call of a voice the call of a voice that is not there.
Poem of the Week
Ordinary Heaven
by Ladan Osman
I have many dreams, I say. In my dreams I am better than myself.
Poetry
Origin
by Loisa Fenichell
I remember a field too long as the stem of a pear chosen in Upstate.
Poetry
Orisha Poems
by Leslie Sainz
The woman who raised the woman who raised me was a mistress.
Poem of the Week
Other Things
by Ghassan Zaqtan
The one who sold me a smuggled gun sold me smuggled bullets.
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iPoems
Out Pruning
by Robert Hedin
In the garden this morning, I thought for a moment I saw T’ao Ch’ien.