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Poems of the Week: 2022–2023

  • Jenny George

    I saw a bat in a dream and then later that week I saw a real bat.

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  • Julian Gewirtz

    Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.

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  • Rebecca Foust

    Who know fear is an aphrodisiac & nothing is scarier than time.

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  • John Freeman

    Who thought to name a four-thousand-pound bomb Satan?

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Poems of the Week: 2022–2023

Poem of the Week

  • Janet BurrowayA Pantoum for Alex
  • Chen Cheni’m sorry, i’m sorry
  • Rebecca FoustPineapple
  • John FreemanDecoys
  • Jenny GeorgeThreshold Gods
  • Julian GewirtzOwn Weather
  • David GreenspanMoving to Connecticut
  • Tory HuffGetting Somewhere
  • Ted KooserMirroring Windows
  • Julia B. LevineCloser Now to Blindness in Early Spring
  • Anthony Thomas Lombardifever dream sonnet with Francesca Woodman
  • Rose McLarneyGiven Such Options
  • Matt W. MillerGraduated
  • Kéchi Nne NomuFish Year
  • Naomi Shihab NyeThe Traveling Onion
  • Tyler Allen PennyWhat You Mistook as Ultimatum
  • Doug RamspeckThe Mountains of Korea and Other Poems
  • Jacques J. RancourtFlooded River It Sweeps
  • Matthew Carey SalyerCrito Creātōrum
  • Gordon TaylorMarriage Counselor
  • Stella Wongfare

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