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Month: Year:
May 21, 2013 Indian Stream Republic
by Stephen Burt
No one should be this alone—
May 20, 2013 After Skate
by Carol Muske-Dukes
He glides in on his single wing, after the signs go up. After
May 19, 2013 Song
by James Joyce
My love is in a light attire
May 18, 2013 Spring Song
by Sherwood Anderson
In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine
May 17, 2013 L’Avenir est Quelque Chose
by Dobby Gibson
All day for too long
May 15, 2013 The Best Thing Anyone Ever Said About Paul Celan
by Shane McCrae
Today you will the     say the any ever
May 14, 2013 Blue Hanuman
by Joan Larkin
A four-armed flutist took me
May 13, 2013 Field
by Erin Belieu
Field is pause   field is plot   field is red chigger bump where
May 12, 2013 To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
To-day's your natal day
May 11, 2013 Before the Birth of One of Her Children
by Anne Bradstreet
All things within this fading world hath end
May 10, 2013 Time
by Chris Martin
All that happens happens
May 9, 2013 No Ticket
by Jonathan Wells
His clothes were filled with tickets to past events
May 8, 2013 Not
by Sophie Cabot Black
that you are unloved
May 7, 2013 After Catullus
by Matthew Rohrer
If you, Tom, could see this inflight video map
May 6, 2013 Mimosa
by Mary Ruefle
Pink dandruff of some tree
May 5, 2013 The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
by Wallace Stevens
But not on a shell, she starts
May 4, 2013 Remorse
by Carl Sandburg
The horse's name was Remorse
May 3, 2013 "I'm afraid of death"
by Kathleen Ossip
I’m afraid of death
May 2, 2013 Belong To
by David Baker
See the pair of us
May 1, 2013 harbor (the conversion)
by Nick Flynn
If this bowl is always empty
Apr 30, 2013 They Romp with Wooly Canines
by Patricia Smith
and spy whole lifetimes on the undersides of leaves
Apr 29, 2013 The Sparrow
by Gerald Stern
Here’s a common sparrow, a bit of a schnorrer
Apr 28, 2013 My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree
by Vachel Lindsay
When I see a young tree
Apr 27, 2013 Poetry
by Alfred Kreymborg
Ladislaw the critic
Apr 26, 2013 Baudelaire in Airports
by Amy King
Will my arm be enough to reach you?
Apr 25, 2013 A Greek Island
by Edward Hirsch
Traveling over your body I found
Apr 24, 2013 Dear J.
by Kazim Ali
It should be a letter
Apr 23, 2013 Spent
by Mark Doty
Late August morning I go out to cut
Apr 22, 2013 William Dawes
by Eileen Myles
faint tinkling down the street
Apr 21, 2013 I saw a man pursuing the horizon
by Stephen Crane
I saw a man pursuing the horizon
Apr 20, 2013 We never know how high we are (1176)
by Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are
Apr 19, 2013 The Purpose of Ritual
by Melissa Broder
When you fled I disappeared
Apr 18, 2013 Longing to Commodious
by Rob Halpern
This is where it gets pretty personal hemmed in
Apr 17, 2013 Lake Havasu
by Dorianne Laux
Man-made, bejesus hot, patches of sand turned to glass.
Apr 16, 2013 Elegy in Limestone
by CJ Evans
If the water, everywhere, and if she
Apr 15, 2013 Living in Numbers
by Claire Lee
Sunday, August 22, 2010:
Apr 14, 2013 To Sir Henry Wotton
by John Donne
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls
Apr 13, 2013 This Compost
by Walt Whitman
Something startles me where I thought I was safest
Apr 12, 2013 Freedom in Ohio
by Jennifer Chang
I want a future
Apr 11, 2013 Whom You Love
by Joseph O. Legaspi
The man whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates
Apr 10, 2013 Rocket Fantastic [excerpt]
by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
He's really beautiful.
Apr 9, 2013 Another Elegy
by Jericho Brown
To believe in God is to love
Apr 8, 2013 On this Very Street in Belgrade
by Charles Simic
Apr 7, 2013 The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Apr 6, 2013 April
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
When the fields catch flower
Apr 5, 2013 Like Any Good American
by Brynn Saito
I bathe my television in total attention I give it my corneas
Apr 4, 2013 Primitive State [excerpt]
by Anselm Berrigan
Thingitation righteousness for pre-avail to drive away the mighty kraken
Apr 3, 2013 Yours
by Daniel Hoffman
I am yours as the summer air at evening is
Apr 2, 2013 The Forecast
by Michael Dumanis
I carry myself out into the rainswept blur.
Apr 1, 2013 Compassion IV
by Noelle Kocot
The human realities of the living are now
Mar 31, 2013 The Mower Against Gardens
by Andrew Marvell
Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use
Mar 30, 2013 Poem
by John Gray
Geranium, houseleek, laid in oblong beds
Mar 29, 2013 A Score for Tourist Movies
by Mary Austin Speaker
If music plays with film
Mar 28, 2013 Lost and Found
by Ron Padgett
Man has lost his gods.
Mar 27, 2013 The Pain
by Laura Kasischke
Like the human brain, which organizes
Mar 26, 2013 Meeting and Passing
by Robert Frost
As I went down the hill along the wall
Mar 25, 2013 Ode, Aubade
by Greg Wrenn
And the morning, too,
Mar 24, 2013 Cahoots
by Carl Sandburg
Play it across the table
Mar 23, 2013 Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III
by Mary Robinson
Turn to yon vale beneath, whose tangled shade
Mar 22, 2013 Ring
by Melissa Stein
Control was all
Mar 21, 2013 Panels for the Walls
by Cedar Sigo
Leave the long fall between us (peak after peak)
Mar 20, 2013 Days of Future Dwell
by Samuel Amadon
A dance professor around
Mar 19, 2013 The Gods Are in the Valley
by Dana Levin
The mind sports god-extensions
Mar 18, 2013 The World Doesn’t Want Me Anymore, and it Doesn’t Know It
by Sean Singer
I am the corner and the cab’s glow-up roof.
Mar 17, 2013 Wanting is — What?
by Robert Browning
Wanting is -- what
Mar 16, 2013 The Wife-Woman
by Anne Spencer
Maker-of-Sevens in the scheme of things
Mar 15, 2013 Opening Gambit
by Michael McGriff
Two decommissioned highways cross
Mar 14, 2013 The Conditional
by Ada Limón
Say tomorrow doesn't come.
Mar 13, 2013 Immortality
by Craig Morgan Teicher
I feel like Emily Dickinson did, running her pale finger over each blade of grass,
Mar 12, 2013 French Kissing
by Gregory Sherl
What is there left to do during a truce, but look at boys
Mar 11, 2013 Life
by Joe Brainard
When I stop and think about what it's all about I do come up with some answers, but they don’t help very much
Mar 10, 2013 Gate of Freedom
by Deema K. Shehabi
Lovers of asparagus, alive
Mar 9, 2013 The Wolf Reader
by George Szirtes
There were the books, and wolves were in the books
Mar 8, 2013 Dusk
by Margo Berdeshevsky
This is the place. No chairs
Mar 7, 2013 When the Grandmother Dies
by Fady Joudah
it'll be kept secret
Mar 6, 2013 Ghazal: In Silence
by Mimi Khalvati
Let them be, the battles you fought, in silence
Mar 5, 2013 White T-shirt
by Lewis Ellingham
I caught sight of it at a bus stop
Mar 4, 2013 Gapped Sonnet
by Suzanne Gardinier
Between the blinds Past the coded locks
Mar 3, 2013 The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
by Leigh Hunt
You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced
Mar 1, 2013 On. On. Stop. Stop.
by Saskia Hamilton
In the old recording of the birthday party,
Feb 28, 2013 Tis Late
by April Bernard
Of course the tall stringy woman
Feb 27, 2013 Poem Entering the Apple Valley Target
by Lynn Melnick
Into the fluorescent rough country
Feb 26, 2013 Base Camp
by Tom Healy
How much oxygen
Feb 25, 2013 The Objectified Mermaid
by Matthea Harvey
The photographer has been treating her like a spork all morning. “Wistful
Feb 24, 2013 O
by Mary Sidney Herbert
Oh, what a lantern, what a lamp of light
Feb 23, 2013 A Billet Doux
by George Moses Horton
DEAR MISS: Notwithstanding the cloud of doubts which overshadows the mind of adoring fancy
Feb 22, 2013 Magdalene
by Marie Howe
You know it was funny because he seemed so well the night before
Feb 21, 2013 26
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Your names toll in my dreams
Feb 20, 2013 The Figure
by Joseph Fasano
You sit at a window and listen to your father
Feb 19, 2013 Individual Time
by Alice Notley
I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it
Feb 18, 2013 A House Divided
by Kyle Dargan
On a railroad car in your America
Feb 17, 2013 The Moods
by W. B. Yeats
Time drops in decay
Feb 16, 2013 A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made
by Aphra Behn
A thousand martyrs I have made
Feb 15, 2013 My Love Sent Me a List
by Olena Kalytiak Davis
O my Love sent me a lusty list
Feb 14, 2013 Sometimes with One I Love
by Walt Whitman
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I
Feb 13, 2013 Domestic
by Deborah Landau
At night, down the hall into the bedroom we go
Feb 12, 2013 Love Story in Black and White
by Toi Derricotte
What the hell am I doing
Feb 11, 2013 Oracle
by Cate Marvin
Dead girls don't go the dying route to get known
Feb 10, 2013 House or Window Flies
by John Clare
These little window dwellers, in cottages and halls, were always entertaining to me
Feb 9, 2013 The Letter
by Amy Lowell
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
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