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Poetry

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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.
Poetry Contest Winners
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.
Poetry Contest Winners
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.
Poem of the Week
From “Last Summer in the Garden”
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
It is cruel, this business of exile and divorce. I will not deny it.
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Poem of the Week
From “Someone”
by Deborah Landau
Your hand on my nightgown, my soft places. I wish you wouldn’t do that.
Poem of the Week
From “Spring”
by William Blake
Sound the flute! Now it’s mute! Bird’s delight, day and night.
Poetry
From “The Book of Clay”
by Blanca Varela
God is there between things, sitting at his own left hand.
Poetry
from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Lie down & whisper all your careless dreams into my votive ear.
Poetry
From “The Last Will and Testament of the Orphelines”
by Heather Altfeld
Our cocoa is gone and our dreams are being eaten by mice.
Poetry
From “The Low Passions”
by Anders Carlson-Wee
There’s no need to check for a pulse, hold a hand mirror for breath.
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Poem of the Week
From “The Monogram”
by Odysseas Elytis
The waves have heard of you. How you caress, how you kiss.
Poetry
From “The Obscure Lives of Poets”
by C. D. Wright
One spent the better part of this life writing in the dirt with a stick.
Poem of the Week
From “Twenty Poems for Noelle”
by Matthew Zapruder
Noelle, somewhere symphony number two listens to you breathing.