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Poem-a-Day — 1000 episodes

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1

Spencer Reece: “Window”

2

Tina Chang: “Bearing Down”

3

E. B. White: “Dog Around the Block”

4

Sara Teasdale: “Song at Capri”

5

Ada Limón: “Dusk After Your Passing”

6

Randall Mann: “Five Murders”

7

Monica Sok: “The Monk”

8

Marcus Wicker: “How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment”

9

Jameson Fitzpatrick: “Refrain”

10

John Keats: “The Human Seasons”

11

Arthur Conan Doyle: “A Tragedy”

12

Tracy K. Smith: “Não, João”

13

Adrian Matejka: “Record Player”

14

Elizabeth Metzger: “Wake Turbulence”

15

Chen Chen: “An Evening Discussion”

16

Meghan O’Rourke: “Erasers”

17

W. B. Yeats: “No Second Troy”

18

Archibald MacLeish: “Sonnet”

19

Leslie Sainz: "[There are forces that twist the tops of us like pliers.]"

20

Guest Editor Interview: August 2026 Guest Editor Charif Shanahan

21

Charif Shanahan: “Song”

22

Marwa Helal: "[the river]"

23

Kimberly Reyes: "The Storm Surge, 1981–1992"

24

Emily Jungmin Yoon: "After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email"

25

Divya Victor: "40 Feet from Nowhere"

26

Alfred Kreymborg: “Dirge”

27

Gerard Manley Hopkins: “Spring and Fall”

28

Daniel Borzutzky: “Heave Sonnet #241117”

29

Cecilia Vicuña, translated by Rosa Alcalá: “Ex Nothing”

30

Dare Williams: “Zero Hour”

31

Elvira Hernández, translated by Thomas Rothe: “Cross-Armed”

32

Meg Day: “32-inch Aubade with Captions”

33

Aldous Huxley: “The Merry-Go-Round”

34

Leonora Speyer: “Deep Sea Fishing”

35

Wo Chan: “Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm”

36

Diana Bellessi, translated by Leo Boix: “I Have Built a Garden …”

37

Luis Chaves, translated by Julia Guez: “The Bricklayer”

38

Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated by Carina del Valle Schorske: “Septihambre”

39

Hajjar Baban: “LOW FLYING PLANES” [From metal and yellow underneath the tire]

40

George Gordon Byron: “Song for the Luddites”

41

H. J. Massingham: “To Don Quixote”

42

Margaret Rhee: “LETTER VII: Remember to Breathe”

43

Lucas de Lima: “[earth & blood & mining dam-burst.]”

44

Yesenia Montilla: “Contemplations While Holding Sunchokes During a Blizzard”

45

Samuel Ace: “On the far side of pleasure”

46

Circe Maia, translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval: “I Didn’t Know”

47

D. H. Lawrence: “The Mosquito Knows”

48

Robert Penn Warren: “Prophecy”

49

S. Brook Corfman: “Lake Michigan II”

50

Janel Pineda: “How to Take a Life”

51

Wingston González, translated by Urayoán Noel: From “traslaciones” [to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts]

52

Fatimah Asghar: “[i love them still]”

53

Guest Editor Interview: July 2026 Guest Editor Oliver Baez Bendorf

54

Angel Nafis: “I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer”

55

Robert Graves: “1915”

56

Ezra Pound: “Meditatio”

57

D’mani Thomas: “for goldfish that remember seaworld”

58

Jos Charles: “A Song” [I was want]

59

Rachel McKibbens: “Deluxe Mourning Package”

60

Isa Borgeson: “[last summer I folded my dresses into storage]”

61

Travis Tate: “Summer City”

62

Edward Powys Mathers: “Six Love Songs”

63

Mona Van Duyn: “The Talker”

64

Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly”

65

Shira Erlichman: “I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman”

66

Kamelya Omayma Youssef: “My earth which is mine will always make more of itself”

67

Moncho Alvarado: “An Erasure of Senate Bill 111”

68

​​Jimin Seo: “In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.]”

69

Mina Loy: “Gertrude Stein”

70

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “St. Telemachus”

71

Eva Candelaria Sosa: “Afterwards”

72

Lan Lesmeister: “Lube, Ars Poetica”

73

Janani Balasubramanian: “Quiet”

74

Andrea Lawlor: “Position Paper #53: National Archivist”

75

Billy-Ray Belcourt: “Bildungssonnet”

76

Erasmus Darwin: From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,]

77

Tao Yuanming, translated by Arthur Waley: “[A long time ago]”

78

Danez Smith: “Do You Know What Today Is?”

79

William Ward Butler: “Fidelity”

80

Alexis N. Garcia: “Alexa for Seniors in Easy Steps”

81

Muriel Leung: “At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees”

82

Kyle Carrero Lopez: “Statement of Purpose”

83

Allen Tate: “Mr. Pope”

84

Guest Editor Interview: June 2026 Guest Editor Sam Sax

85

Kashiana Singh: “Bone by Bone: A Hypochondriac Inventory”

86

Sarah Ghazal Ali: “Künstlerroman”

87

Safia Elhillo: “Abecedarian Beginning with Alif”

88

Megan Fernandes: “Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar”

89

Sara Deniz Akant: "War Poem"

90

Kiran Bath: "Nayika at the crawfish boil"

91

John Masefield: "On Growing Old"

92

Ravi Shankar: "Final Stop"

93

Jeanann Verlee: "Peril, Ignored"

94

Adam Falkner: "Correct the Record, Can We?"

95

Yahya Ashour: "Keep My Poems"

96

Maha Hashwi: "Not Brave"

97

Diannely Antigua: "Assault"

98

Deahna Fumerol: "After the Work Is Done"

99

Ralph Nazareth: "Of Hog Summers"

100

Hamed Sinno: "Naqus"

101

Noor Hindi: "The Document"

102

Elizabeth Crawford: "Antelope Valley Times"

103

Ahmad Ibsais: "The Land Gave Birth"

104

Ashna Ali: "Aubade on Piazza del Popolo with Saxophonist and Chopin"

105

Ronald Carson: "Forever Plastics"

106

Anita Nahal: "The Quiet Shift"

107

Gabrielle Bates: "Daughter"

108

Edgar Kunz: "A Certain Point"

109

Megan Pinto: "Long Weekend"

110

Fady Joudah: "Pink Panther"

111

Lara Atallah: "Spectral Prophecies"

112

W. J. Herbert: "Drought Season"

113

Indran Amirthanayagam: "Catching Fire"

114

Tarfia Faizullah: "Chaturdashpodi Kobita"

115

Guest Editor Interview: May 2026 Guest Editor Hala Alyan

116

Kim Addonizio: "Sleepless Nights"

117

Lory Bedikian: "My Son Rests His Cheek on the Wrecked Car"

118

Kai Carlson-Wee: "Blue Room"

119

Anders Carlson-Wee: "Spirits"

120

Malia Maxwell: "In the not-not-woods"

121

Arno Holz, translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky: From "Phantasus" [My springtime, a sobbing hunger,]

122

Maxine Scates: "Flyway"

123

Rebecca Bornstein: "Love Poem to Taco Bell"

124

Jake Young: "Working at the Distillery"

125

Thomas Centolella: "Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood"

126

Tracey Knapp: "To the Sea"

127

Thomas Wyatt: "[The long love that in my thought doth harbour]"

128

Louis Untermeyer: "End of the Comedy"

129

Michael Montlack: “‘I came here to be a poet …’”

130

Alison Luterman: "What the Strength Card in the Tarot Deck Said"

131

Arielle Hebert: "Our Book of Delights"

132

Celeste Doaks: "Daniel’s Response to Jet, or Why Do You Trust Her?"

133

Gary Young: "[Each morning before dawn,]"

134

Raffi Joe Wartanian: "Tongue"

135

Jesse Arlen: "𓆭 [Tree]"

136

Suzanne Cleary: "Mercury"

137

Didi Jackson: "Spot"

138

William Archila: "Ginebra"

139

Susan Deer Cloud: "Waking in Deep Night to the Great Bear"

140

Kathy Evans: "Bio"

141

Hrayr Varaz: "Ladletime: Night Time"

142

Lola Koundakjian: "The Little Boy"

143

Michelle Bitting: "Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All"

144

J. Scott Brownlee: "These Hills"

145

Danusha Laméris: "Peonies"

146

Guest Editor Interview: April 2026 Guest Editor Dorianne Laux

147

Kira Tucker: "Precious"

148

Jane Hirshfield: "I speak with the future."

149

Padraic Colum: "The Pigeons"

150

William Wordsworth: "Persuasion"

151

Nikita Deshpande: "Post Partum"

152

Derrick Austin: "Audience"

153

ire’ne lara silva: "i didn’t eat the sun"

154

Dorianne Laux: "Where Is My Friend?"

155

Esther Lin: "Origin Story"

156

Sherwood Anderson: "A Poet"

157

Louise Glück: "Vita Nova"

158

Todd Turnidge: "Moonlight Romantica"

159

January Gill O'Neil: "Honeycrisp"

160

Vincent Rendoni: "1985"

161

Tiana Clark: "Poem Beginning in Berlin, Ending in Boston, and Bookended by Rilke"

162

Gregory Orr: "[And isn't everything risk?]"

163

Bliss Carman: "Low Tide on Grand Pré"

164

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "A Dozen Cocktails Please"

165

George Bilgere: "After Escher"

166

Michael Kleber-Diggs: "Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas"

167

Leila Chatti: "The World Is Too Much With Us"

168

Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Petrichor"

169

Pádraig Ó Tuama: "Our Lady of the Garden"

170

Martial, translated by Henry Howard: "The Means to Attain Happy Life"

171

Genevieve Taggard: "Going Somewhere"

172

Angela Narciso Torres: "Late Bird"

173

AE Hines: "Peace Treaty"

174

Daniel B. Summerhill: "Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead"

175

Jenny George: "Touching and Being Touched"

176

Maggie Smith: "This human life"

177

Leonora Speyer: "She says, being forbidden:"

178

Horace Gregory: "Interior: The Suburbs"

179

Guest Editor Interview: March 2026 Guest Editor Danusha Laméris

180

Salem al-Okaly, translated by Khaled Mattawa: "To the Here and Now"

181

Sanam Sheriff: "The Emperor Pats His Lips with a Napkin"

182

Mary-Alice Daniel: "Ancestor Syndrome"

183

Kwame Dawes: "Window Art"

184

Ladan Osman: "[ ]"

185

Pindar, translated by Ernest Myers: "For Asopichos of Orchomenos, Winner in the Boys’ Short Foot-Race"

186

Robert Bridges: "[The evening darkens over]"

187

Siwar Masannat: From “With Al-Hudoud” [From above, stolen]

188

Ashaki M. Jackson: “Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.”

189

Rabha Ashry: "the art of losing"

190

Rigoberto González: "Lessons at the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning"

191

Sharan Strange: "Two-Faced Memory"

192

Countee Cullen: "Bright Bindings"

193

Sappho, translated by Bliss Carman: "[I seek and desire]

194

David Campos: "Kiss. Baptism."

195

Wana Udobang: "Dissonance"

196

Tyree Daye: "Again"

197

Gabeba Baderoon: "Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain"

198

Sadia Hassan: "Anti-Elegy"

199

Leonard Bacon: "Critic"

200

Bryher: "In Exile"

201

Niki Herd: "Monkeys & Shows"

202

Matthew Shenoda: "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"

203

Tara Betts: "At the BBQ Spot"

204

Mahtem Shiferraw: "Beastly"

205

A. Van Jordan: "1999"

206

Langston Hughes: "Sun Song"

207

Dulcie Deamer: "The Dreamer"

208

Guest Editor Interview: February 2026 Guest Editor Chris Abani

209

Marlanda Dekine: "Memory Poem"

210

K. A. Hays: “‘Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing’”

211

Shara Lessley: "Sisyphus"

212

Canese Jarboe: “Alternate Endings to Shania Twain’s 'That Don’t Impress Me Much' Music Video”

213

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: "Poem in Which the Poet Ventriloquizes the Beloved"

214

Henry Howard: "So Cruel Prison"

215

H. P. Lovecraft: From "Fungi of Yuggoth" [XIV. Star-winds]

216

Amy M. Alvarez: "Burn Out"

217

Iain Haley Pollock: "[And I return to the field]"

218

Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Aura"

219

Elizabeth Bradfield: "The Teeth on My Wrist"

220

Katrina Vandenberg: "Tomatoes"

221

Frank Horne: "Youth"

222

Marie Ponsot: "Rain All Night, Paris"

223

A. L. Nielsen: "Consensus"

224

Rebecca Gayle Howell: "How Will I Know You" [For months]

225

Todd Davis: "How She Heard It"

226

Lindsay Bernal: "The Laundresses"

227

Tim Earley: "Vacation Bible School"

228

Samuel Beckett: "Whoroscope"

229

E. E. Cummings: From "Puella Mea" [Through the young and awkward hours]

230

Adam Giannelli: "Alliterative Autobiography"

231

Jenny Johnson: "Queer Trivia Night"

232

Jacob Shores-Argüello: "The Names of Grasses"

233

Sara Nicholson: "What Ails Me"

234

Gary Jackson: "Chickens"

235

W. H. Auden: "II" [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.]

236

André Fontainas, translated by Jethro Bithell: "Desires"

237

J. Bailey Hutchinson: "Megaloceros"

238

Austin Araujo: "Burning Candle"

239

Carlina Duan: "I Face East (Ars Poetica)"

240

Guest Editor Interview: January 2026 Guest Editor Geffrey Davis

241

Sara Abou Rashed: "Gaza I"

242

Deema K. Shehabi: "Solstice Pantoum"

243

Oscar Wilde: "Le Jardin des Tuileries"

244

Mary Shelley: "Stanzas" [How like a star you rose upon my life,]

245

T. J. Anderson III: "Pollinator"

246

Roger Mitchell: "Going Back"

247

Elmaz Abinader: "True Metal"

248

David Wojahn: "Inauguration Day, 2025"

249

Talvikki Ansel: "The Lichens"

250

Lewis Carroll: "Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child"

251

Donald Justice: "The Artist Orpheus"

252

Michael Dickman: "A Good Doctor"

253

Dalia Taha, translated by Sara Elkamel: "Enter Terror"

254

Aliki Barnstone: "The Sign as You Exit the Artist’s Colony Says ‘The Real World’"

255

Yahya Frederickson: "News"

256

Chris Abani: "Ash Wednesday"

257

Charles Reznikoff: "XX" [A white curtain turning in an open window]

258

Walter de la Mare: "A Song of Enchantment"

259

H. R. Webster: "Oranges"

260

Lawrence Joseph: "The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit,"

261

Megan Levad Beisner: "The woman who cut and painted my toenails"

262

Robert Laidler: "Jr"

263

Jennifer Huang: "Gender Euphoria and the Superbloom"

264

John Berryman: "Footing Our Cabin’s Lawn, Before the Wood"

265

Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"

266

Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"

267

Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertical Passage"

268

Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"

269

Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"

270

Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"

271

Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My Dream"

272

Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Editor Khaled Mattawa

273

Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"

274

Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"

275

Casandra López: "Language Studies: ‘Wiishmenok /to love /to like/to want"

276

Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Seems"

277

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: "Jessica McClure, After the Well"

278

Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"

279

Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"

280

Anne Brontë: "Night"

281

Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"

282

Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"

283

Annie Wenstrup: "Lodestone"

284

Lance Larsen: "To My Daughter's Dead Name"

285

Trish Hopkinson: "Clutch"

286

Washington Matthews: "Song 'A'"

287

Witter Bynner: "Madagascar [Opus 104]"

288

Chris Watkins: "The Sonnet in Drag"

289

Carol Moldaw: "What We Wanted"

290

Erin Marie Lynch: "Poshmark"

291

Rob Arnold: "Fourth of July"

292

Elise Paschen: "Aperture"

293

Alan Seeger: "Liebestod"

294

Mary Cornelia Hartshorne: "The Poet"

295

Alice Fulton: "Tough Zinnias"

296

Landis Grenville: "Homecoming"

297

Anthony Borruso: "Some Melodious Plot"

298

James Thomas Stevens: "To Hell Gate"

299

Anne Marie Rooney: "Abstraction"

300

Anonymous: "Lament of a Man for His Son"

301

William Rose Benét: "Unforgotten"

302

Avia Tadmor: "Nothing Personal"

303

Guest Editor Interview: November 2025 Guest Editor Tacey M. Atsitty

304

Ameen Animashaun: "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"

305

Brian Teare: "smallholding"

306

Weijia Pan: "Immigrant Song at a Food Truck"

307

Jennifer Elise Foerster: "American History"

308

James Ephraim McGirt: "A Mystery"

309

James Joyce: "III"

310

Hieu Minh Nguyen: "SoMa"

311

Dujie Tahat: "All-American Ghazal"

312

Matthew Gellman: "Conflation"

313

Susan Mitchell: "Wolf Moon"

314

Sam Sax: "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

315

Elias Lönnrot, translated by John Martin Crawford: From the "Kalevala" [Proem]

316

Robinson Jeffers: From "The Loving Shepherdess" [Unhappy shepherdess,]

317

Sasha Wade: "Del Parto"

318

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: "Correspondence with Apologies"

319

Monica Ferrell: "Subclinical"

320

Kevin Prufer: "Graves"

321

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa: "Camay International"

322

Louise Bogan: "Cassandra"

323

Iris Tree: "The Complex Life"

324

Kelan Nee: "Manifesto"

325

Victoria Chang: "The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)"

326

Dāshaun Washington: "Half-light"

327

Kelli Russell Agodon: "Dementia Is a New Way to be Buddhist"

328

Zeina Hashem Beck: "Standup Sonnet"

329

Aldous Huxley: "The Burning Wheel"

330

Alexander Pushkin: "A Nereid"

331

David Roderick: "Message for Jim in Syria [Fall fell wind-wise]"

332

Blas Falconer: "This is Not a Horse"

333

Hua Xi: "A Bookshelf"

334

Guest Editor Interview: October 2025 Guest Editor Rick Barot

335

Rodney Saint-Éloi and Nathalie Handal: From “Chant in the Country of Shadows”

336

María Auxiliadora Álvarez and Andrés Fernández: "disagreement"

337

Herman Melville: "Art,"

338

Huy Tưởng and Phương Anh: "final final night"

339

Marcelo Morales and Kristin Dykstra: "[Untitled]"

340

Antonella Anedda and Gioia Guerzoni: "2022, January"

341

Samira Negrouche: "Poem of September 24"

342

Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad and Michele Hutchison: "war"

343

Jorge Galán and Janet Hendrickson: "Winter"

344

Sir Walter Scott: From "The Lady of the Lake" Canto I

345

John Iremil Teodoro and Luisa A. Igloria: “Lingården Äldreboende Lenhovda”

346

David Cruz and Anthony Geist: “Immigrants”

347

Shivanee Ramlochan: “The Meaning of Trees”

348

Rolando Kattan, Katherine M. Hedeen, and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez: “Two-Blooded”

349

José Mármol and Eileen O’Connor: “Another April, Too Cruel”

350

James Sacré and Youmna Chamieh: “One day writing will become too difficult.”

351

Margaret Fuller: “Freedom and Truth”

352

Tu Fu translated by Marilyn Chin: “Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds”

353

Bejan Matur and Eleanor Wright: “As Though”

354

Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid: “In this Labyrinth”

355

Immanuel Mifsud and Ruth Ward: “Stone”

356

Yolanda Castaño and Samantha Schnee: “Wheel of Fortune”

357

Damir Šodan and James Meetze: “Poetry in Small Language”

358

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift”

359

Yaxkin Melchy Ramos and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: “Capybara Hot Springs”

360

Andrea Cote and Craig Epplin: “Somber Bull”

361

Tomica Bajsić and Nina Bajsić: “When You Hit Yourself with an Axe While Chopping Wood”

362

Anthony Joseph: “Empires”

363

Katerina Iliopoulou and Jackson Watson: “Cape Tenaron”

364

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa: “The Wicked Lady”

365

Lola Ridge: From “IV. The Stone” [The morning came like primroses]:

366

Guest Editor Interview: September 2025 Guest Editor Nathalie Handal

367

Léonie Adams: “Early Waking”

368

Geoffrey Brock: “Goodbye”

369

Atsuro Riley: “We Be Ludere”

370

Ari Banias: “Task”

371

Brian Tierney: “Catering”

372

Cate Marvin: “The Truth”

373

Sharon Olds: “Boxer Aria”

374

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy: “The Wolves”

375

Wayne Miller: “Theological”

376

Armen Davoudian: “Hot Springs”

377

Paul Tran: “Eros”

378

Aaron Smith: “I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married”

379

D. A. Powell: “Rewilding”

380

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Fate”

381

Alfred Kreymborg: “Those Everlasting Blues”

382

Sandra Lim: “Cattiveria”

383

Noah Warren: “Shuttle”

384

Christian Gullette: “The Fates”

385

Natalie Shapero: “Hansel or Gretel”

386

Michael Dumanis: “Sehnsucht”

387

Stanley Kunitz: “Passing Through”

388

Li Bai: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” translated by Ezra Pound

389

Miguel Murphy: “August”

390

Jesse Nathan: “Panhandle”

391

Leonel Sánchez Lopez: “What the Birds Do”

392

Saeed Jones: “Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe’s Dog in Beloved”

393

Andrea Cohen: “Pastime ”

394

Gertrude Stein: “Tender Buttons [Breakfast]”

395

Vachel Lindsay: “Meeting Ourselves”

396

Taylor Byas: “I begin the day thinking”

397

Guest Editor Interview: August 2025 Guest Editor Randall Mann

398

Samantha Thornhill: “38. Shedding the Old”

399

Lauren K. Alleyne: “Gift”

400

Mary Jo Bang: “Madonna Overview”

401

L. Lamar Wilson: “Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway”

402

Philip Levine: “Breath”

403

Else Lasker-Schüler: “Sphinx”

404

Jeffrey Pethybridge: “Note on Method”

405

Adrian Matejka: “16 Bars Poetica”

406

Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”

407

Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”

408

Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”

409

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”

410

Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”

411

CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”

412

Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

413

Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”

414

Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”

415

Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”

416

Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”

417

Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”

418

Abe Louise Young: “Who”

419

Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissociation.”

420

Chet’la Sebree: “An End”

421

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”

422

Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”

423

Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”

424

Victor Hugo: “Truth”

425

Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms about the stars”

426

Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”

427

Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”

428

DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”

429

Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alphabet”

430

Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor Khadijah Queen

431

Sappho: “[It was summer when I found you]”

432

Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”

433

Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers: “After a Rochester Wedding”

434

francine j. harris: “There are inanimate things out there loving each other”

435

DéLana R. A. Dameron: “When Mama died, I lost my air”

436

C. Russell Price: “I Decide to Tell Ghost Cowboy My Intentions”

437

Yalie Saweda Kamara: “Trim”

438

Louise Bogan: “The Alchemist”

439

Mikhail Kuzmin: “Night Was Done”

440

Hílda Davis: “Pilate ponders where she belongs”

441

Jari Bradley: “You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See”

442

Airea D. Matthews: “Altitude”

443

Logan February: “I Woke You with Wagner,”

444

Kaveh Akbar: “Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog”

445

Jericho Brown: “Reunion Tour”

446

John Berryman: “The Possessed”

447

Wes Matthews: “Immortality”

448

Jen DeGregorio: “No Isms Except Neologism”

449

Fatima Malik: “Critique of My Thighs”

450

Stephanie Colwell: “Livestreaming My Grandfather’s Funeral”

451

Mckendy Fils-Aime: “on superstitions”

452

Witter Bynner: “Beyond a Mountain”

453

Vita Sackville-West: “Song: Let Us Go Back”

454

Deborah Hauser: “Never Admit Your Mistakes”

455

Keisha-Gaye Anderson: “We Dreamed You”

456

Maya Marshall: “The Collection Room”

457

Dior J. Stephens: “a letter to charlie parker”

458

Ama Codjoe: “Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!”

459

Mónica Gomery: “The End Is the Beginning”

460

Guest Editor Interview: June 2025 Guest Editor Omotara James

461

Kirun Kapur: “Rajat Jayanti”

462

Yusef Komunyakaa: “Frida’s Earth Mother”

463

Brandy Nālani McDougall: “returning”

464

Major Jackson: “Addiction”

465

Christopher Buckley: “Desire”

466

Mark Jarman: “The Mermaid”

467

Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”

468

Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”

469

Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”

470

Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”

471

Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”

472

Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears”

473

Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet Anthem Self-Portrait at 16”

474

Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: From “Migrations”

475

Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”

476

Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”

477

David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”

478

T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”

479

Nicholas Christopher: “1943”

480

Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”

481

Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”

482

Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”

483

Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”

484

David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”

485

Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”

486

Michael Collier: “The Globe”

487

Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”

488

Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”

489

Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”

490

Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”

491

Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”

492

Karla Cordero: “As a Kid I Was Told, ‘Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back’”

493

Guest Editor Interview: May 2025 Guest Editor Garrett Hongo

494

Mariposa Fernández: “Verses in the Wind”

495

Noel Quiñones: “Orange”

496

Rachel Dillon: “A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem”

497

William Wordsworth: “To the Daisy”

498

Gabriel Ramirez: “Learn Your Song”

499

Dimitri Reyes: “Speakers”

500

Gabriel Cortez: “Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale ”

501

Barbara Jane Reyes: “Downtown Oakland Poem”

502

Anacaona Rocio Milagro: “Hangman Poem: One Player Puzzle”

503

Fannie Isabelle Sherrick: “Easter”

504

E. E. Cummings: “La Guerre (II)”

505

Malcolm Friend: “Caliban Theory”

506

Jacqueline Jiang: “If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me”

507

jo reyes-boitel: “fish bones”

508

Cynthia Dewi Oka: “American Abyss”

509

David Maduli: “alameda point”

510

Ibn al-Fāriḍ: “From the ‘Khamriyyah’ [There is a vineyard planted by the Lord]”

511

Hatim al-Tai: “On Avarice”

512

Vincent Toro: “¿Que Que La Femme?”

513

Leonora Simonovis: “Little Bruja”

514

Brittany Rogers: “Dressing the Body”

515

Grisel Y. Acosta: “Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic”

516

Yesenia Montilla: “High Stakes”

517

Ed Roberson: “American Quartet”

518

Katherine Mansfield: “The Earth-Child in the Grass”

519

Carlos Andrés Gómez: “Ghazal Circling Fatherhood”

520

Gia Anansi Shakur: “The Owl”

521

Mike Tyler: “Palazzo Tartaruga”

522

Cortney Lamar Charleston: “Magnitude and Bond”

523

Lesyk Panasiuk: "A Wartime Dream," translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

524

Guest Editor Interview: April 2025 Guest Editor Willie Perdomo

525

George Eliot: "Self and Life"

526

Scottie McKenzie Frasier: "The Things I Love"

527

Jessica Abughattas: "Failed Poems"

528

Brenda Hillman: "1951"

529

Donna Masini: "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

530

Nicole Callihan: "Summer Elegy"

531

Josh Bell: "The War Against Birthdays"

532

Louise Imogen Guiney: "Spring"

533

Sara Teasdale: "Spring Night"

534

Gary Copeland Lilley: "War"

535

Katie Condon: "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby’s Delivery Will Cost"

536

Chloe Honum: "Irreversible Fetal Anomalies"

537

Joseph Millar: "Job"

538

Jake Skeets: "Loom Poem"

539

Rita Dove: "Prose in a Small Space"

540

Frances Dana Barker Gage: "Woman––The Poet"

541

Danusha Laméris: "U-Pick Orchards"

542

Mosab Abu Toha: "[You were so small in my hands]"

543

Jennifer Knox: "‘How old is Maggie?’"

544

Matthew Olzmann: "Olympus"

545

Sarah Freligh: "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"

546

Felicia Dorothea Hemans: "Hymn of Nature"

547

Phoebe Cary: "Otway"

548

Laura Read: "Love Poem with Staples"

549

Jason Schneiderman: "A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool"

550

Moira Egan: "Ghazal: Sea"

551

Susan Browne: "Becoming a Poet"

552

Diane Seuss: "In life I’m no longer capable of love,"

553

Leonora Speyer: "The Story as I Understand It"

554

Emma Lazarus: "Fog"

555

Guest Editor Interview: March 2025 Guest Editor Kim Addonizio

556

Kamelya Omayma Youssef: "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"

557

Andrea Abi-Karam: "DEAR GABRIELLE,"

558

Poupeh Missaghi: "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

559

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi: "Last Sky World Burn"

560

Rachel Kyung-Joo Shin: "Spring"

561

Mark Van Doren: "The Rivals"

562

Fenton Johnson: "Harlem: The Black City"

563

Diana Marie Delgado: "And So Many Are Dear"

564

Justin Rovillos Monson: "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

565

Raquel Gutiérrez: "Solip Cystic"

566

Benjamin Krusling: "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

567

W. J. Lofton: "The Lord is American"

568

Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"

569

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"

570

Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"

571

Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"

572

Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"

573

MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "

574

Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"

575

William Moore: "Expectancy"

576

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"

577

Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"

578

Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"

579

Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as when I am]"

580

Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”

581

m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring

582

Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He Was Gone"

583

Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”

584

Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Editor Saretta Morgan

585

Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

586

Catherine Bowman: "Pears"

587

James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"

588

Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

589

Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the get-go"

590

Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"

591

Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"

592

Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"

593

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: "The Houseguest"

594

Ashley M. Jones: "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

595

Megan Fernandes: "On the One Hand"

596

Kevin Young: "Mantle"

597

William Rose Benét: "The City"

598

Arna Bontemps: "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

599

Peter Balakian: "Day of the Dead"

600

Kerry Hardie: "Acceptance"

601

Robert Wrigley: "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

602

Tom Healy: "Sonnet for the Chickens"

603

Emma Trelles: "Dear Sister"

604

Harriet Monroe: "With a Copy of Shelley"

605

Amos Wilder: "Winter Night"

606

Laurel Nakanishi: "Sleepless Pantoum"

607

Dylan Brennan: From “A First Glimpse of Ireland”

608

Carlie Hoffman: "After Morlot Avenue"

609

P. Scott Cunningham: "Florida Snow"

610

Ariel Francisco: "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"

611

Babette Deutsch: "Hibernal"

612

Robert Bridges: "January"

613

Michael Hettich: "The Angels"

614

Alexandra Lytton Regalado: "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

615

William Archila: "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

616

Sahar Muradi: "All I can see is nothing"

617

Guest Editor Interview: January 2025 Guest Editor Campbell McGrath

618

Regie Cabico: "Morning After The Election"

619

D. H. Lawrence: "New Year’s Eve"

620

Mary Weston Fordham: "Passing of the Old Year"

621

Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

622

Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"

623

Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"

624

Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"

625

Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"

626

Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

627

Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"

628

Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"

629

David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"

630

Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"

631

Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"

632

Sahar Romani: "Sign"

633

Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"

634

Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"

635

Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"

636

Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"

637

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"

638

Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"

639

Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"

640

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"

641

Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"

642

Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"

643

Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

644

Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

645

Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"

646

Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the Light"

647

Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"

648

Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Editor Victor Hernández Cruz

649

Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"

650

Lance Henson: "Untitled"

651

Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"

652

Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"

653

Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"

654

Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"

655

Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"

656

Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in Thy Love!"

657

Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

658

Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"

659

Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"

660

Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"

661

Amber McCrary: "Stories"

662

Ina Donna Coolbrith: "Sufficient"

663

Alexander Posey: "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

664

Paisley Rekdal: "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"

665

Christine Stewart-Nuñez: "Miscarriage"

666

Ted Kooser: "Legacy"

667

Elise Paschen: "𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟/Wahzhazhe/Osage"

668

James Cervantes: "A Phosphorescence"

669

Bertrand N. O. Walker: "The Warrior’s Plume"

670

Thomas Moore: "At the Mid Hour of Night"

671

Levi Romero: "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

672

Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake: "Someday I’ll Love—"

673

Mary Leauna Christensen: "Grandmother"

674

Margo Tamez: "I am the daughter my mother raised to confront them"

675

Tanaya Winder: "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through"

676

Hamza Mohamed: "If I Was President"

677

Valeria Ruiz: "You Know Me"

678

Cynthia Hogue: "Spells for Dread"

679

Guest Editor Interview: November 2024 Guest Editor Laura Tohe

680

Cynthia Cruz: "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

681

Soham Patel: "Sai Tells a Ghost Story"

682

Oliver de la Paz: "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

683

Elisabeth Frost: From “The Uncured World”

684

Eugene Field: "Ipswich"

685

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Spirit of Poetry"

686

Allison Albino: "Cast Iron"

687

Quincy Scott Jones: "Why Wake up Happy"

688

J. Mae Barizo: "Indeterminacy"

689

Timothy Yu: "Chinese Dream 61"

690

Charlotte Meehan: "Motherless Son"

691

Lucy Larcom: "The City Lights"

692

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Ghosts"

693

Margaret Rhee: "Crooked"

694

Evie Shockley: "job prescription"

695

Hyejung Kook: "Dead Reckoning"

696

Idra Novey: "Value City"

697

Helene Achanzar: "The only poem I can write"

698

Miguel Teurbe Tolón: "Last Song of the Exile"

699

Luis Lloréns Torres: "Bolivar"

700

Joseph O. Legaspi: "Raspberries"

701

Cornelius Eady: "Bullpen"

702

Pavneet Singh: "Letter 6"

703

Jake Ricafrente: "Makati Cousin"

704

Katy Lederer: "Lithopedion"

705

Rubén Darío: "Nightfall in the Tropics"

706

Salomón de la Selva: "A Song for Wall Street"

707

Tan Lin: "Sent & scented with 10 emoticons"

708

Rodrigo Toscano: "Habilitas"

709

E. J. Koh: "This Birthday"

710

Feliz Lucia Molina: "Paról"

711

Guest Editor Interview: October 2024 Guest Editor Sarah Gambito

712

Igor Gulin: "Kontur"

713

José de Espronceda: "Hymn to the Sun"

714

José Martí: From “Simple Verses”

715

Jackie Wang: "The Crypt Seed"

716

Yang Licai: "Dedicated to All Human Beings Who Suffer"

717

Kay Gabriel: "Effete Poem"

718

Cindy Juyoung Ok: "To Bear the Ruse"

719

Gabrielle Civil: “Villainy” in LA

720

Beatrice Ravenel: "The Gong"

721

José María Heredia y Heredia translated by Thatcher Taylor Payne: "Niagara"

722

Hannah Emerson: "Beauty Feast"

723

Najwan Darwish translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid: "A Violet Darkness"

724

Ahmad Almallah: "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

725

Asiya Wadud: "number four"

726

Ekaterina Derysheva translated by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M. F. Platt: "stigmas on the body of air"

727

Nicolas Heredia y Mota translated by Edgar Peguero y Heredia: "The American Flag"

728

Juan Julian Lastra: "Vas Doloris"

729

Rae Armantrout: "Skill Sets"

730

Katrine Øgaard Jensen: "Arachnoscientific Salvation"

731

Aristilde Kirby: "Daria Ukiyo-e"

732

Carl Phillips: "That Part in the Music"

733

Carolina Ebeid: "Assume the Role of Cassandra, Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

734

Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada: "The Soul’s Desire"

735

Salvador de Madariaga: From “Spanish Folk Songs”

736

Sara Uribe translated by JD Pluecker: "Speech on the Body"

737

Yoo Heekyung translated by Stine An: "Story—Late Summer or Early Fall"

738

Oriana Méndez translated by Erín Moure: "Farewells"

739

Daniel Borzutzky: "Painblank"

740

Rusty Morrison: "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"

741

Manuel José Othón translated by Alice Stone Blackwell: "The River "

742

Muna Lee: "Vendor of Green Coconuts"

743

Guest Editor Interview: September 2024 Guest Editor Sawako Nakayasu

744

Karl Michael Iglesias: "Puerto Ricans in the White House"

745

Kayla "AluTru" Steward: "Anthills"

746

Alero "The Mimz" Ogisi: "Past Present & Future"

747

Jada Renée Allen: "Drill"

748

Joy Priest: "The Black Outside"

749

Jeanne D’Orge: "Matins"

750

Edna St. Vincent Millay: "[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find]"

751

Jan Mandell: "Ode to Aging Bodies"

752

Alafia Nicole Sessions: "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

753

Sin à Tes Souhaits: "On Crip"

754

Jayson P. Smith: "on fathers & swords"

755

Sam Sax: "My Hole. My Whole."

756

Wallace Stevens: "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

757

Dorothy Parker: "Incurable"

758

Ajanaé Dawkins: "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"

759

Tameka Cage Conley: "Kin: First Responders"

760

Nabila Lovelace: "Sojourned."

761

Tish Jones: "There Was No Sun in the Room"

762

Bernardo Wade: "The Hymn"

763

Robert Frost: "Acceptance"

764

Karle Wilson Baker: "Bluebird and Cardinal"

765

Chandler Peters-Durose: "Rest stop"

766

Desdamona: "Once and Future"

767

Farah Habad: "And out of the ashes"

768

Kyle Tran Myhre: "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

769

Ty Chapman: "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

770

Hildegarde Flanner: "To a Tree in Bloom"

771

E. E. Cummings: "Here’s a Little Mouse"

772

Ollie Schminkey: "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

773

Isha Camara: "The Hills are Writing"

774

Guest Editor Interview: August 2024 Guest Editor Danez Smith

775

Emily Khilfeh: "Ekphrasis On “The New York Times” Headline “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom”"

776

Tarik Dobbs: "Artist Statement"

777

Spencer Williams: "I wake at dawn to glimpse my barren chest and speak to the children I won’t birth."

778

Carl Sandburg: From “The Windy City”

779

Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"

780

Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

781

Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Mermaid” in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"

782

Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"

783

C. T. Salazar: "River"

784

Gaia Rajan: "Dent"

785

William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"

786

T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"

787

Ilyus Evander: "tempo"

788

K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"

789

aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"

790

Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"

791

jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"

792

Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"

793

Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"

794

Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"

795

Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"

796

Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

797

Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough anymore"

798

Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"

799

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"

800

Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"

801

Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"

802

Chrysanthemum: "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

803

Liv Mammone: "Fear"

804

Sam Rush: "Sonnet for what ages and does not"

805

Nicole Connolly: "Dream Job"

806

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux: "Love Stronger than Death"

807

Guest Editor Interview: July 2024 Guest Editor torrin a. greathouse

808

Lord Alfred Douglas: "In Summer"

809

Maral Taheri, translated by Hajar Hussaini: "Asylum Seeker"

810

Pamela Mordecai: "savage"

811

Trish Salah: "without a word"

812

Anthony Vahni Capildeo: "Niche"

813

Paolo Javier: "What good news in the world"

814

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Greenness"

815

Fitz-Greene Halleck: "Twilight"

816

Seema Reza: "The neurologist gives us permission"

817

Shailja Patel: "Solstice Re-pot"

818

Romeo Oriogun: "Griot of Strange Places"

819

Évelyne Trouillot, translated by Danielle Legros Georges: From “A Rain of Stars”

820

Kettly Mars, translated by Nathan H. Dize: "Between midnight and eternity"

821

Kwame Dawes: "Purple"

822

Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Before Parting"

823

Jacqueline Bishop: "Doilies"

824

Christina Olivares: "Preserving an Ecosystem"

825

Purvi Shah: "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious"

826

Vladimir Lucien: "uses of the erotic"

827

Kaie Kellough: "if who"

828

Christina Rossetti: "On the Wing"

829

Amy Lowell: From “Evelyn Ray”

830

Jacqueline Johnson: "Oracle"

831

JoAnne McFarland: "Jersey"

832

Geoffrey Philp: "Haiku"

833

Anton Nimblett: "Balance"

834

Raina J. León: "making life on a palette"

835

Oscar Wilde: "In The Forest"

836

Sappho: "[O But My Delicate Lover]"

837

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie: "Miracles Welcome"

838

Guest Editor Interview: June 2024 Guest Editor Rosamond S. King

839

Terisa Siagatonu: "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

840

Carol Ann Carl: "I Remember"

841

Simon Shieh: "Poem Addressed to You"

842

Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds"

843

Kamini Roy: "In the Light"

844

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: "Midmorning"

845

Rajiv Mohabir: "Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale"

846

Aimee Suzara: "Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker"

847

Bao Phi: "To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train"

848

Anjoli Roy: "Last"

849

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Kaōnōn"

850

Tu Fu: "The Excursion"

851

Solomon ibn Gabirol: "Night-Piece"

852

Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"

853

Marisa Lin: "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

854

Brandy Nālani McDougall: "We Live We Live"

855

Lehua M. Taitano: "When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day"

856

essa may ranapiri: "Te Uto O Te Ika A Maaui / Te Utu O Te Motu A Maui"

857

Dante Di Stefano: "Green Burial Unsonnet"

858

Li Bai: "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'”

859

Chandanie Somwaru: "Doodhpitty // Cidium"

860

Hala Alyan: "Siri as Mother"

861

Jake Eduardo Vermaas: "[ode to the water beneath Kapūkakī also known as Red Hill]"

862

Angela Peñaredondo: "harvest"

863

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You"

864

Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"

865

Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”

866

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "He Mea Māloʻeloʻe #3"

867

Grace Iwashita-Taylor: "Default Taupou"

868

Hari Alluri: "Spiral"

869

Guest Editor Interview: May 2024 Guest Editor Noʻu Revilla

870

Roger Reeves: "Prayer to the Gods of the Night, II"

871

David Mura: "The Reasons"

872

Nickole Brown: "Parable"

873

Ashley M. Jones: "Lullaby for the Grieving"

874

Khaled Mattawa: "The Pages You Loved"

875

Ellen Hinsey: "Epistle"

876

Susan Tichy: "Public Speech"

877

Martín Espada: "Breve Pausa"

878

Aaron Tyler Hand: "Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC"

879

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The Park"

880

Monica Youn: "Four Freedoms Park"

881

Adrian Matejka: "17 Kinds of Hungry"

882

L. Lamar Wilson: From “Take Me Back, Burden Hill”

883

Virginia Konchan: "Black Hole"

884

James Fujinami Moore: "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"

885

Colin Pope: "Lightning Bug"

886

Tarafa: From “Muʻallaqāt” [Canst thou make me immortal]

887

b ferguson: "Parkside & Ocean"

888

Stephen Kuusisto: From “Dark Joys”

889

Tory Adkisson: "Lost Letter"

890

Suzanne Gardinier: "Mala 50 / He broke his sling that killed birds"

891

Miller Oberman: "The Centaur"

892

Joanna Klink: "A Welcome"

893

Abu Nuwas: "[O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early]"

894

Donika Kelly: "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

895

Alessandra Lynch: "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"

896

Cecilia Woloch: "Prayer for 2018"

897

Divya Victor: "Make/Do"

898

Fady Joudah: "[…]"

899

Lo Kwa Mei-en: "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

900

Guest Editor Interview: April 2024 Guest Editor Cyrus Cassells

901

Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "My Easter Dove"

902

Marianne Moore: "The Paper Nautilus"

903

Jeffrey McDaniel: "The Jesus Fridge"

904

Ciona Rouse: "Red-Shouldered Hawk"

905

Erika Meitner: "Just as the Darkness Got Very Dark / Another Data Point"

906

Dorothy Chan: "Somehow"

907

Geffrey Davis: "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'”

908

Marion Strobel: "Little Things"

909

Harriet Monroe: "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

910

Taije Silverman: "Armageddon"

911

Shamala Gallagher: "'The New York Times' Says Aloe Is a Hoax"

912

Jan Beatty: "Drag"

913

Tim Seibles: "Naïve"

914

Saida Agostini: "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

915

Sarah Lee Brown Fleming: "Come Let Us Be Friends"

916

Skipwith Cannell: "The Coming of Night"

917

Yona Harvey: "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

918

Brenda Shaughnessy: "2-Sided Map Shows Line Where Falling Bodies Will Land"

919

Patrick Rosal: "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

920

Kim Addonizio: "This Too Shall Pass"

921

Ellen Bass: "You’re the Top"

922

Maria White Lowell: "The Alpine Sheep"

923

Matthew Arnold: "A Southern Night"

924

Keetje Kuipers: "Emesis"

925

Tyler Mills: "ectopic"

926

Avni Vyas: "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

927

Preeti Vangani: "One Cup of Chai"

928

Keith Leonard: "Abecedarian on the Good Father"

929

James Russell Lowell: "To the Dandelion"

930

Emma Lazarus : From “An Epistle”

931

Diannely Antigua: "Blessing the Baby"

932

Guest Editor Interview: March 2024 Guest Editor Kendra DeColo

933

Hayes Davis: “‘Thhhat was great’”

934

Jacqueline Allen Trimble: "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

935

Allison Joseph: "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

936

Teri Ellen Cross Davis: "Migraines have their say"

937

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "Sonnet"

938

Leslie Pinckney Hill: "The Black Man’s Bit"

939

jessica Care moore: "Wild Beauty"

940

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

941

Roberto Carlos Garcia: "From 'Tempest'”

942

Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"

943

Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

944

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"

945

Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"

946

Niki Herd: "From 'The Stuff of Hollywood'”

947

Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"

948

Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Crawford is Grown"

949

Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"

950

Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "

951

Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"

952

Sterling A. Brown: "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

953

Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"

954

Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"

955

Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"

956

Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"

957

A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeggio"

958

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"

959

Langston Hughes: "Sport"

960

Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"

961

Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"

962

Jay Wright: "[Song into holiness]"

963

Guest Editor Interview: February 2024 Guest Editor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

964

Mahogany L. Browne: "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

965

Melissa Range: "First South"

966

H. D.: "Projector"

967

John Donne: "Love's Growth"

968

Ishion Hutchinson: "Club Paradise"

969

Valzhyna Mort: "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"

970

Jordan Kapono Nakamura: "Interview"

971

Myronn Hardy: "To the Air"

972

Colleen J. McElroy: "The Lost Breath of Trees"

973

Laura Riding Jackson: "The Quids"

974

Francis Thompson: "To a Snowflake"

975

Mutsuo Takahashi: "Dead Boy"

976

Marilyn Hacker: "Montpeyroux Sonnets"

977

Jason Allen-Paisant: "And You . . ."

978

Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Phragmites"

979

Rickey Laurentiis: "Hermaphrodite"

980

Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Habit of Perfection"

981

Sir Geoffrey Hill: "Genius Loci"

982

Vievee Francis: "Clarity"

983

Gregory Pardlo: "Giornata 4"

984

Tyree Daye: "The Lord's Corner"

985

R. A. Villanueva: "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

986

Margo Berdeshevsky: "Somewhere Everywhere"

987

Vita Sackville-West: From "'The Land' [Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills]"

988

A. A. Milne: "Furry Bear"

989

Malika Booker: "Jesus in the Wilderness"

990

Marie-Ovide Dorcely: "Sojourner"

991

Richard Scott: "Peridot"

992

Amanda Johnston: "Bogeymen"

993

Adam Wiedewitsch: "If Night You Were a City"

994

Emily Dickinson: "One Year ago—jots what? (296)"

995

Wilfred Owen: "Winter Song"

996

Guest Editor Interview: January 2024 Guest Editor Dante Micheaux

997

Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"

998

Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"

999

Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"

1000

Brenda Hillman: "Porcelain Musician in a Child’s Bedroom"