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Poem-a-Day — 2327 episodes

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1

Elizabeth Crawford: "Antelope Valley Times"

2

Ahmad Ibsais: "The Land Gave Birth"

3

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

4

Ronald Carson: "Forever Plastics"

5

Anita Nahal: "The Quiet Shift"

6

Gabrielle Bates: "Daughter"

7

Edgar Kunz: "A Certain Point"

8

Megan Pinto: "Long Weekend"

9

Fady Joudah: "Pink Panther"

10

Lara Atallah: "Spectral Prophecies"

11

W. J. Herbert: "Drought Season"

12

Indran Amirthanayagam: "Catching Fire"

13

Tarfia Faizullah: "Chaturdashpodi Kobita"

14

Guest Editor Interview: May 2026 Guest Editor Hala Alyan

15

Kim Addonizio: "Sleepless Nights"

16

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

17

Kai Carlson-Wee: "Blue Room"

18

Anders Carlson-Wee: "Spirits"

19

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

20

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

21

Maxine Scates: "Flyway"

22

Rebecca Bornstein: "Love Poem to Taco Bell"

23

Jake Young: "Working at the Distillery"

24

Thomas Centolella: "Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood"

25

Tracey Knapp: "To the Sea"

26

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

27

Louis Untermeyer: "End of the Comedy"

28

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

29

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

30

Arielle Hebert: "Our Book of Delights"

31

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

32

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

33

Raffi Joe Wartanian: "Tongue"

34

Jesse Arlen: "𓆭 [Tree]"

35

Suzanne Cleary: "Mercury"

36

Didi Jackson: "Spot"

37

William Archila: "Ginebra"

38

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

39

Kathy Evans: "Bio"

40

Hrayr Varaz: "Ladletime: Night Time"

41

Lola Koundakjian: "The Little Boy"

42

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

43

J. Scott Brownlee: "These Hills"

44

Danusha Laméris: "Peonies"

45

Guest Editor Interview: April 2026 Guest Editor Dorianne Laux

46

Kira Tucker: "Precious"

47

Jane Hirshfield: "I speak with the future."

48

Padraic Colum: "The Pigeons"

49

William Wordsworth: "Persuasion"

50

Nikita Deshpande: "Post Partum"

51

Derrick Austin: "Audience"

52

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

53

Dorianne Laux: "Where Is My Friend?"

54

Esther Lin: "Origin Story"

55

Sherwood Anderson: "A Poet"

56

Louise Glück: "Vita Nova"

57

Todd Turnidge: "Moonlight Romantica"

58

January Gill O'Neil: "Honeycrisp"

59

Vincent Rendoni: "1985"

60

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

61

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

62

Bliss Carman: "Low Tide on Grand Pré"

63

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

64

George Bilgere: "After Escher"

65

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

66

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

67

Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Petrichor"

68

Pádraig Ó Tuama: "Our Lady of the Garden"

69

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

70

Genevieve Taggard: "Going Somewhere"

71

Angela Narciso Torres: "Late Bird"

72

AE Hines: "Peace Treaty"

73

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

74

Jenny George: "Touching and Being Touched"

75

Maggie Smith: "This human life"

76

Leonora Speyer: "She says, being forbidden:"

77

Horace Gregory: "Interior: The Suburbs"

78

Guest Editor Interview: March 2026 Guest Editor Danusha Laméris

79

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

80

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

81

Mary-Alice Daniel: "Ancestor Syndrome"

82

Kwame Dawes: "Window Art"

83

Ladan Osman: "[ ]"

84

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

85

Robert Bridges: "[The evening darkens over]"

86

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

87

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

88

Rabha Ashry: "the art of losing"

89

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

90

Sharan Strange: "Two-Faced Memory"

91

Countee Cullen: "Bright Bindings"

92

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

93

David Campos: "Kiss. Baptism."

94

Wana Udobang: "Dissonance"

95

Tyree Daye: "Again"

96

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

97

Sadia Hassan: "Anti-Elegy"

98

Leonard Bacon: "Critic"

99

Bryher: "In Exile"

100

Niki Herd: "Monkeys & Shows"

101

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

102

Tara Betts: "At the BBQ Spot"

103

Mahtem Shiferraw: "Beastly"

104

A. Van Jordan: "1999"

105

Langston Hughes: "Sun Song"

106

Dulcie Deamer: "The Dreamer"

107

Guest Editor Interview: February 2026 Guest Editor Chris Abani

108

Marlanda Dekine: "Memory Poem"

109

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

110

Shara Lessley: "Sisyphus"

111

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

112

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

113

Henry Howard: "So Cruel Prison"

114

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

115

Amy M. Alvarez: "Burn Out"

116

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

117

Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Aura"

118

Elizabeth Bradfield: "The Teeth on My Wrist"

119

Katrina Vandenberg: "Tomatoes"

120

Frank Horne: "Youth"

121

Marie Ponsot: "Rain All Night, Paris"

122

A. L. Nielsen: "Consensus"

123

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

124

Todd Davis: "How She Heard It"

125

Lindsay Bernal: "The Laundresses"

126

Tim Earley: "Vacation Bible School"

127

Samuel Beckett: "Whoroscope"

128

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

129

Adam Giannelli: "Alliterative Autobiography"

130

Jenny Johnson: "Queer Trivia Night"

131

Jacob Shores-Argüello: "The Names of Grasses"

132

Sara Nicholson: "What Ails Me"

133

Gary Jackson: "Chickens"

134

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

135

André Fontainas, translated by Jethro Bithell: "Desires"

136

J. Bailey Hutchinson: "Megaloceros"

137

Austin Araujo: "Burning Candle"

138

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

139

Guest Editor Interview: January 2026 Guest Editor Geffrey Davis

140

Sara Abou Rashed: "Gaza I"

141

Deema K. Shehabi: "Solstice Pantoum"

142

Oscar Wilde: "Le Jardin des Tuileries"

143

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

144

T. J. Anderson III: "Pollinator"

145

Roger Mitchell: "Going Back"

146

Elmaz Abinader: "True Metal"

147

David Wojahn: "Inauguration Day, 2025"

148

Talvikki Ansel: "The Lichens"

149

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

150

Donald Justice: "The Artist Orpheus"

151

Michael Dickman: "A Good Doctor"

152

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

153

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

154

Yahya Frederickson: "News"

155

Chris Abani: "Ash Wednesday"

156

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

157

Walter de la Mare: "A Song of Enchantment"

158

H. R. Webster: "Oranges"

159

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

160

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

161

Robert Laidler: "Jr"

162

Jennifer Huang: "Gender Euphoria and the Superbloom"

163

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

164

Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"

165

Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"

166

Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertical Passage"

167

Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"

168

Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"

169

Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"

170

Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My Dream"

171

Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Editor Khaled Mattawa

172

Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"

173

Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"

174

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

175

Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Seems"

176

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

177

Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"

178

Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"

179

Anne Brontë: "Night"

180

Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"

181

Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"

182

Annie Wenstrup: "Lodestone"

183

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

184

Trish Hopkinson: "Clutch"

185

Washington Matthews: "Song 'A'"

186

Witter Bynner: "Madagascar [Opus 104]"

187

Chris Watkins: "The Sonnet in Drag"

188

Carol Moldaw: "What We Wanted"

189

Erin Marie Lynch: "Poshmark"

190

Rob Arnold: "Fourth of July"

191

Elise Paschen: "Aperture"

192

Alan Seeger: "Liebestod"

193

Mary Cornelia Hartshorne: "The Poet"

194

Alice Fulton: "Tough Zinnias"

195

Landis Grenville: "Homecoming"

196

Anthony Borruso: "Some Melodious Plot"

197

James Thomas Stevens: "To Hell Gate"

198

Anne Marie Rooney: "Abstraction"

199

Anonymous: "Lament of a Man for His Son"

200

William Rose Benét: "Unforgotten"

201

Avia Tadmor: "Nothing Personal"

202

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

203

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

204

Brian Teare: "smallholding"

205

Weijia Pan: "Immigrant Song at a Food Truck"

206

Jennifer Elise Foerster: "American History"

207

James Ephraim McGirt: "A Mystery"

208

James Joyce: "III"

209

Hieu Minh Nguyen: "SoMa"

210

Dujie Tahat: "All-American Ghazal"

211

Matthew Gellman: "Conflation"

212

Susan Mitchell: "Wolf Moon"

213

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

214

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

215

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

216

Sasha Wade: "Del Parto"

217

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: "Correspondence with Apologies"

218

Monica Ferrell: "Subclinical"

219

Kevin Prufer: "Graves"

220

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa: "Camay International"

221

Louise Bogan: "Cassandra"

222

Iris Tree: "The Complex Life"

223

Kelan Nee: "Manifesto"

224

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

225

Dāshaun Washington: "Half-light"

226

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

227

Zeina Hashem Beck: "Standup Sonnet"

228

Aldous Huxley: "The Burning Wheel"

229

Alexander Pushkin: "A Nereid"

230

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

231

Blas Falconer: "This is Not a Horse"

232

Hua Xi: "A Bookshelf"

233

Guest Editor Interview: October 2025 Guest Editor Rick Barot

234

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

235

María Auxiliadora Álvarez and Andrés Fernández: "disagreement"

236

Herman Melville: "Art,"

237

Huy Tưởng and Phương Anh: "final final night"

238

Marcelo Morales and Kristin Dykstra: "[Untitled]"

239

Antonella Anedda and Gioia Guerzoni: "2022, January"

240

Samira Negrouche: "Poem of September 24"

241

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

242

Jorge Galán and Janet Hendrickson: "Winter"

243

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

244

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

245

David Cruz and Anthony Geist: “Immigrants”

246

Shivanee Ramlochan: “The Meaning of Trees”

247

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

248

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

249

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

250

Margaret Fuller: “Freedom and Truth”

251

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

252

Bejan Matur and Eleanor Wright: “As Though”

253

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

254

Immanuel Mifsud and Ruth Ward: “Stone”

255

Yolanda Castaño and Samantha Schnee: “Wheel of Fortune”

256

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

257

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

258

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

259

Andrea Cote and Craig Epplin: “Somber Bull”

260

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

261

Anthony Joseph: “Empires”

262

Katerina Iliopoulou and Jackson Watson: “Cape Tenaron”

263

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa: “The Wicked Lady”

264

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

265

Guest Editor Interview: September 2025 Guest Editor Nathalie Handal

266

Léonie Adams: “Early Waking”

267

Geoffrey Brock: “Goodbye”

268

Atsuro Riley: “We Be Ludere”

269

Ari Banias: “Task”

270

Brian Tierney: “Catering”

271

Cate Marvin: “The Truth”

272

Sharon Olds: “Boxer Aria”

273

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy: “The Wolves”

274

Wayne Miller: “Theological”

275

Armen Davoudian: “Hot Springs”

276

Paul Tran: “Eros”

277

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

278

D. A. Powell: “Rewilding”

279

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Fate”

280

Alfred Kreymborg: “Those Everlasting Blues”

281

Sandra Lim: “Cattiveria”

282

Noah Warren: “Shuttle”

283

Christian Gullette: “The Fates”

284

Natalie Shapero: “Hansel or Gretel”

285

Michael Dumanis: “Sehnsucht”

286

Stanley Kunitz: “Passing Through”

287

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

288

Miguel Murphy: “August”

289

Jesse Nathan: “Panhandle”

290

Leonel Sánchez Lopez: “What the Birds Do”

291

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

292

Andrea Cohen: “Pastime ”

293

Gertrude Stein: “Tender Buttons [Breakfast]”

294

Vachel Lindsay: “Meeting Ourselves”

295

Taylor Byas: “I begin the day thinking”

296

Guest Editor Interview: August 2025 Guest Editor Randall Mann

297

Samantha Thornhill: “38. Shedding the Old”

298

Lauren K. Alleyne: “Gift”

299

Mary Jo Bang: “Madonna Overview”

300

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

301

Philip Levine: “Breath”

302

Else Lasker-Schüler: “Sphinx”

303

Jeffrey Pethybridge: “Note on Method”

304

Adrian Matejka: “16 Bars Poetica”

305

Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”

306

Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”

307

Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”

308

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”

309

Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”

310

CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”

311

Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

312

Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”

313

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

314

Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”

315

Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”

316

Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”

317

Abe Louise Young: “Who”

318

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

319

Chet’la Sebree: “An End”

320

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”

321

Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”

322

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

323

Victor Hugo: “Truth”

324

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

325

Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”

326

Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”

327

DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”

328

Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alphabet”

329

Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor Khadijah Queen

330

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

331

Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”

332

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

333

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

334

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

335

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

336

Yalie Saweda Kamara: “Trim”

337

Louise Bogan: “The Alchemist”

338

Mikhail Kuzmin: “Night Was Done”

339

Hílda Davis: “Pilate ponders where she belongs”

340

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”

341

Airea D. Matthews: “Altitude”

342

Logan February: “I Woke You with Wagner,”

343

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

344

Jericho Brown: “Reunion Tour”

345

John Berryman: “The Possessed”

346

Wes Matthews: “Immortality”

347

Jen DeGregorio: “No Isms Except Neologism”

348

Fatima Malik: “Critique of My Thighs”

349

Stephanie Colwell: “Livestreaming My Grandfather’s Funeral”

350

Mckendy Fils-Aime: “on superstitions”

351

Witter Bynner: “Beyond a Mountain”

352

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

353

Deborah Hauser: “Never Admit Your Mistakes”

354

Keisha-Gaye Anderson: “We Dreamed You”

355

Maya Marshall: “The Collection Room”

356

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

357

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

358

Mónica Gomery: “The End Is the Beginning”

359

Guest Editor Interview: June 2025 Guest Editor Omotara James

360

Kirun Kapur: “Rajat Jayanti”

361

Yusef Komunyakaa: “Frida’s Earth Mother”

362

Brandy Nālani McDougall: “returning”

363

Major Jackson: “Addiction”

364

Christopher Buckley: “Desire”

365

Mark Jarman: “The Mermaid”

366

Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”

367

Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”

368

Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”

369

Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”

370

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

371

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

372

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

373

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

374

Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”

375

Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”

376

David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”

377

T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”

378

Nicholas Christopher: “1943”

379

Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”

380

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

381

Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”

382

Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”

383

David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”

384

Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”

385

Michael Collier: “The Globe”

386

Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”

387

Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”

388

Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”

389

Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”

390

Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”

391

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

392

Guest Editor Interview: May 2025 Guest Editor Garrett Hongo

393

Mariposa Fernández: “Verses in the Wind”

394

Noel Quiñones: “Orange”

395

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

396

William Wordsworth: “To the Daisy”

397

Gabriel Ramirez: “Learn Your Song”

398

Dimitri Reyes: “Speakers”

399

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

400

Barbara Jane Reyes: “Downtown Oakland Poem”

401

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

402

Fannie Isabelle Sherrick: “Easter”

403

E. E. Cummings: “La Guerre (II)”

404

Malcolm Friend: “Caliban Theory”

405

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

406

jo reyes-boitel: “fish bones”

407

Cynthia Dewi Oka: “American Abyss”

408

David Maduli: “alameda point”

409

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

410

Hatim al-Tai: “On Avarice”

411

Vincent Toro: “¿Que Que La Femme?”

412

Leonora Simonovis: “Little Bruja”

413

Brittany Rogers: “Dressing the Body”

414

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

415

Yesenia Montilla: “High Stakes”

416

Ed Roberson: “American Quartet”

417

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

418

Carlos Andrés Gómez: “Ghazal Circling Fatherhood”

419

Gia Anansi Shakur: “The Owl”

420

Mike Tyler: “Palazzo Tartaruga”

421

Cortney Lamar Charleston: “Magnitude and Bond”

422

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

423

Guest Editor Interview: April 2025 Guest Editor Willie Perdomo

424

George Eliot: "Self and Life"

425

Scottie McKenzie Frasier: "The Things I Love"

426

Jessica Abughattas: "Failed Poems"

427

Brenda Hillman: "1951"

428

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

429

Nicole Callihan: "Summer Elegy"

430

Josh Bell: "The War Against Birthdays"

431

Louise Imogen Guiney: "Spring"

432

Sara Teasdale: "Spring Night"

433

Gary Copeland Lilley: "War"

434

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

435

Chloe Honum: "Irreversible Fetal Anomalies"

436

Joseph Millar: "Job"

437

Jake Skeets: "Loom Poem"

438

Rita Dove: "Prose in a Small Space"

439

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

440

Danusha Laméris: "U-Pick Orchards"

441

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

442

Jennifer Knox: "‘How old is Maggie?’"

443

Matthew Olzmann: "Olympus"

444

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

445

Felicia Dorothea Hemans: "Hymn of Nature"

446

Phoebe Cary: "Otway"

447

Laura Read: "Love Poem with Staples"

448

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

449

Moira Egan: "Ghazal: Sea"

450

Susan Browne: "Becoming a Poet"

451

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

452

Leonora Speyer: "The Story as I Understand It"

453

Emma Lazarus: "Fog"

454

Guest Editor Interview: March 2025 Guest Editor Kim Addonizio

455

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

456

Andrea Abi-Karam: "DEAR GABRIELLE,"

457

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

458

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi: "Last Sky World Burn"

459

Rachel Kyung-Joo Shin: "Spring"

460

Mark Van Doren: "The Rivals"

461

Fenton Johnson: "Harlem: The Black City"

462

Diana Marie Delgado: "And So Many Are Dear"

463

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

464

Raquel Gutiérrez: "Solip Cystic"

465

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

466

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

467

Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"

468

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"

469

Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"

470

Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"

471

Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"

472

MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "

473

Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"

474

William Moore: "Expectancy"

475

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"

476

Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"

477

Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"

478

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

479

Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”

480

m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring

481

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

482

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

483

Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Editor Saretta Morgan

484

Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

485

Catherine Bowman: "Pears"

486

James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"

487

Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

488

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

489

Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"

490

Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"

491

Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"

492

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: "The Houseguest"

493

Ashley M. Jones: "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

494

Megan Fernandes: "On the One Hand"

495

Kevin Young: "Mantle"

496

William Rose Benét: "The City"

497

Arna Bontemps: "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

498

Peter Balakian: "Day of the Dead"

499

Kerry Hardie: "Acceptance"

500

Robert Wrigley: "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

501

Tom Healy: "Sonnet for the Chickens"

502

Emma Trelles: "Dear Sister"

503

Harriet Monroe: "With a Copy of Shelley"

504

Amos Wilder: "Winter Night"

505

Laurel Nakanishi: "Sleepless Pantoum"

506

Dylan Brennan: From “A First Glimpse of Ireland”

507

Carlie Hoffman: "After Morlot Avenue"

508

P. Scott Cunningham: "Florida Snow"

509

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

510

Babette Deutsch: "Hibernal"

511

Robert Bridges: "January"

512

Michael Hettich: "The Angels"

513

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

514

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

515

Sahar Muradi: "All I can see is nothing"

516

Guest Editor Interview: January 2025 Guest Editor Campbell McGrath

517

Regie Cabico: "Morning After The Election"

518

D. H. Lawrence: "New Year’s Eve"

519

Mary Weston Fordham: "Passing of the Old Year"

520

Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

521

Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"

522

Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"

523

Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"

524

Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"

525

Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

526

Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"

527

Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"

528

David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"

529

Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"

530

Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"

531

Sahar Romani: "Sign"

532

Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"

533

Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"

534

Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"

535

Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"

536

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"

537

Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"

538

Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"

539

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"

540

Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"

541

Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"

542

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

543

Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

544

Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"

545

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

546

Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"

547

Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Editor Victor Hernández Cruz

548

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

549

Lance Henson: "Untitled"

550

Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"

551

Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"

552

Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"

553

Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"

554

Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"

555

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

556

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

557

Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"

558

Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"

559

Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"

560

Amber McCrary: "Stories"

561

Ina Donna Coolbrith: "Sufficient"

562

Alexander Posey: "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

563

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

564

Christine Stewart-Nuñez: "Miscarriage"

565

Ted Kooser: "Legacy"

566

Elise Paschen: "𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟/Wahzhazhe/Osage"

567

James Cervantes: "A Phosphorescence"

568

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

569

Thomas Moore: "At the Mid Hour of Night"

570

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

571

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

572

Mary Leauna Christensen: "Grandmother"

573

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

574

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

575

Hamza Mohamed: "If I Was President"

576

Valeria Ruiz: "You Know Me"

577

Cynthia Hogue: "Spells for Dread"

578

Guest Editor Interview: November 2024 Guest Editor Laura Tohe

579

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

580

Soham Patel: "Sai Tells a Ghost Story"

581

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

582

Elisabeth Frost: From “The Uncured World”

583

Eugene Field: "Ipswich"

584

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Spirit of Poetry"

585

Allison Albino: "Cast Iron"

586

Quincy Scott Jones: "Why Wake up Happy"

587

J. Mae Barizo: "Indeterminacy"

588

Timothy Yu: "Chinese Dream 61"

589

Charlotte Meehan: "Motherless Son"

590

Lucy Larcom: "The City Lights"

591

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Ghosts"

592

Margaret Rhee: "Crooked"

593

Evie Shockley: "job prescription"

594

Hyejung Kook: "Dead Reckoning"

595

Idra Novey: "Value City"

596

Helene Achanzar: "The only poem I can write"

597

Miguel Teurbe Tolón: "Last Song of the Exile"

598

Luis Lloréns Torres: "Bolivar"

599

Joseph O. Legaspi: "Raspberries"

600

Cornelius Eady: "Bullpen"

601

Pavneet Singh: "Letter 6"

602

Jake Ricafrente: "Makati Cousin"

603

Katy Lederer: "Lithopedion"

604

Rubén Darío: "Nightfall in the Tropics"

605

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

606

Tan Lin: "Sent & scented with 10 emoticons"

607

Rodrigo Toscano: "Habilitas"

608

E. J. Koh: "This Birthday"

609

Feliz Lucia Molina: "Paról"

610

Guest Editor Interview: October 2024 Guest Editor Sarah Gambito

611

Igor Gulin: "Kontur"

612

José de Espronceda: "Hymn to the Sun"

613

José Martí: From “Simple Verses”

614

Jackie Wang: "The Crypt Seed"

615

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

616

Kay Gabriel: "Effete Poem"

617

Cindy Juyoung Ok: "To Bear the Ruse"

618

Gabrielle Civil: “Villainy” in LA

619

Beatrice Ravenel: "The Gong"

620

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

621

Hannah Emerson: "Beauty Feast"

622

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

623

Ahmad Almallah: "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

624

Asiya Wadud: "number four"

625

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

626

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

627

Juan Julian Lastra: "Vas Doloris"

628

Rae Armantrout: "Skill Sets"

629

Katrine Øgaard Jensen: "Arachnoscientific Salvation"

630

Aristilde Kirby: "Daria Ukiyo-e"

631

Carl Phillips: "That Part in the Music"

632

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

633

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

634

Salvador de Madariaga: From “Spanish Folk Songs”

635

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

636

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

637

Oriana Méndez translated by Erín Moure: "Farewells"

638

Daniel Borzutzky: "Painblank"

639

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

640

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

641

Muna Lee: "Vendor of Green Coconuts"

642

Guest Editor Interview: September 2024 Guest Editor Sawako Nakayasu

643

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

644

Kayla "AluTru" Steward: "Anthills"

645

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

646

Jada Renée Allen: "Drill"

647

Joy Priest: "The Black Outside"

648

Jeanne D’Orge: "Matins"

649

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

650

Jan Mandell: "Ode to Aging Bodies"

651

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

652

Sin à Tes Souhaits: "On Crip"

653

Jayson P. Smith: "on fathers & swords"

654

Sam Sax: "My Hole. My Whole."

655

Wallace Stevens: "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

656

Dorothy Parker: "Incurable"

657

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

658

Tameka Cage Conley: "Kin: First Responders"

659

Nabila Lovelace: "Sojourned."

660

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

661

Bernardo Wade: "The Hymn"

662

Robert Frost: "Acceptance"

663

Karle Wilson Baker: "Bluebird and Cardinal"

664

Chandler Peters-Durose: "Rest stop"

665

Desdamona: "Once and Future"

666

Farah Habad: "And out of the ashes"

667

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

668

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

669

Hildegarde Flanner: "To a Tree in Bloom"

670

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

671

Ollie Schminkey: "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

672

Isha Camara: "The Hills are Writing"

673

Guest Editor Interview: August 2024 Guest Editor Danez Smith

674

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

675

Tarik Dobbs: "Artist Statement"

676

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

677

Carl Sandburg: From “The Windy City”

678

Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"

679

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

680

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

681

Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"

682

C. T. Salazar: "River"

683

Gaia Rajan: "Dent"

684

William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"

685

T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"

686

Ilyus Evander: "tempo"

687

K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"

688

aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"

689

Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"

690

jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"

691

Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"

692

Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"

693

Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"

694

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

695

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

696

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

697

Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"

698

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"

699

Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"

700

Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"

701

Chrysanthemum: "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

702

Liv Mammone: "Fear"

703

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

704

Nicole Connolly: "Dream Job"

705

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux: "Love Stronger than Death"

706

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

707

Lord Alfred Douglas: "In Summer"

708

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

709

Pamela Mordecai: "savage"

710

Trish Salah: "without a word"

711

Anthony Vahni Capildeo: "Niche"

712

Paolo Javier: "What good news in the world"

713

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Greenness"

714

Fitz-Greene Halleck: "Twilight"

715

Seema Reza: "The neurologist gives us permission"

716

Shailja Patel: "Solstice Re-pot"

717

Romeo Oriogun: "Griot of Strange Places"

718

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

719

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

720

Kwame Dawes: "Purple"

721

Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Before Parting"

722

Jacqueline Bishop: "Doilies"

723

Christina Olivares: "Preserving an Ecosystem"

724

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

725

Vladimir Lucien: "uses of the erotic"

726

Kaie Kellough: "if who"

727

Christina Rossetti: "On the Wing"

728

Amy Lowell: From “Evelyn Ray”

729

Jacqueline Johnson: "Oracle"

730

JoAnne McFarland: "Jersey"

731

Geoffrey Philp: "Haiku"

732

Anton Nimblett: "Balance"

733

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

734

Oscar Wilde: "In The Forest"

735

Sappho: "[O But My Delicate Lover]"

736

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie: "Miracles Welcome"

737

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

738

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

739

Carol Ann Carl: "I Remember"

740

Simon Shieh: "Poem Addressed to You"

741

Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds"

742

Kamini Roy: "In the Light"

743

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: "Midmorning"

744

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

745

Aimee Suzara: "Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker"

746

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

747

Anjoli Roy: "Last"

748

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Kaōnōn"

749

Tu Fu: "The Excursion"

750

Solomon ibn Gabirol: "Night-Piece"

751

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

752

Marisa Lin: "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

753

Brandy Nālani McDougall: "We Live We Live"

754

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

755

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

756

Dante Di Stefano: "Green Burial Unsonnet"

757

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

758

Chandanie Somwaru: "Doodhpitty // Cidium"

759

Hala Alyan: "Siri as Mother"

760

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

761

Angela Peñaredondo: "harvest"

762

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

763

Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"

764

Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”

765

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "He Mea Māloʻeloʻe #3"

766

Grace Iwashita-Taylor: "Default Taupou"

767

Hari Alluri: "Spiral"

768

Guest Editor Interview: May 2024 Guest Editor Noʻu Revilla

769

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

770

David Mura: "The Reasons"

771

Nickole Brown: "Parable"

772

Ashley M. Jones: "Lullaby for the Grieving"

773

Khaled Mattawa: "The Pages You Loved"

774

Ellen Hinsey: "Epistle"

775

Susan Tichy: "Public Speech"

776

Martín Espada: "Breve Pausa"

777

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

778

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The Park"

779

Monica Youn: "Four Freedoms Park"

780

Adrian Matejka: "17 Kinds of Hungry"

781

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

782

Virginia Konchan: "Black Hole"

783

James Fujinami Moore: "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"

784

Colin Pope: "Lightning Bug"

785

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

786

b ferguson: "Parkside & Ocean"

787

Stephen Kuusisto: From “Dark Joys”

788

Tory Adkisson: "Lost Letter"

789

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

790

Miller Oberman: "The Centaur"

791

Joanna Klink: "A Welcome"

792

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

793

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

794

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

795

Cecilia Woloch: "Prayer for 2018"

796

Divya Victor: "Make/Do"

797

Fady Joudah: "[…]"

798

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

799

Guest Editor Interview: April 2024 Guest Editor Cyrus Cassells

800

Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "My Easter Dove"

801

Marianne Moore: "The Paper Nautilus"

802

Jeffrey McDaniel: "The Jesus Fridge"

803

Ciona Rouse: "Red-Shouldered Hawk"

804

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

805

Dorothy Chan: "Somehow"

806

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

807

Marion Strobel: "Little Things"

808

Harriet Monroe: "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

809

Taije Silverman: "Armageddon"

810

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

811

Jan Beatty: "Drag"

812

Tim Seibles: "Naïve"

813

Saida Agostini: "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

814

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

815

Skipwith Cannell: "The Coming of Night"

816

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

817

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

818

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

819

Kim Addonizio: "This Too Shall Pass"

820

Ellen Bass: "You’re the Top"

821

Maria White Lowell: "The Alpine Sheep"

822

Matthew Arnold: "A Southern Night"

823

Keetje Kuipers: "Emesis"

824

Tyler Mills: "ectopic"

825

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"

826

Preeti Vangani: "One Cup of Chai"

827

Keith Leonard: "Abecedarian on the Good Father"

828

James Russell Lowell: "To the Dandelion"

829

Emma Lazarus : From “An Epistle”

830

Diannely Antigua: "Blessing the Baby"

831

Guest Editor Interview: March 2024 Guest Editor Kendra DeColo

832

Hayes Davis: “‘Thhhat was great’”

833

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

834

Allison Joseph: "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

835

Teri Ellen Cross Davis: "Migraines have their say"

836

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "Sonnet"

837

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

838

jessica Care moore: "Wild Beauty"

839

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

840

Roberto Carlos Garcia: "From 'Tempest'”

841

Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"

842

Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

843

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"

844

Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"

845

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

846

Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"

847

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

848

Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"

849

Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "

850

Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"

851

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

852

Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"

853

Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"

854

Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"

855

Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"

856

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

857

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"

858

Langston Hughes: "Sport"

859

Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"

860

Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"

861

Jay Wright: "[Song into holiness]"

862

Guest Editor Interview: February 2024 Guest Editor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

863

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

864

Melissa Range: "First South"

865

H. D.: "Projector"

866

John Donne: "Love's Growth"

867

Ishion Hutchinson: "Club Paradise"

868

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

869

Jordan Kapono Nakamura: "Interview"

870

Myronn Hardy: "To the Air"

871

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

872

Laura Riding Jackson: "The Quids"

873

Francis Thompson: "To a Snowflake"

874

Mutsuo Takahashi: "Dead Boy"

875

Marilyn Hacker: "Montpeyroux Sonnets"

876

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

877

Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Phragmites"

878

Rickey Laurentiis: "Hermaphrodite"

879

Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Habit of Perfection"

880

Sir Geoffrey Hill: "Genius Loci"

881

Vievee Francis: "Clarity"

882

Gregory Pardlo: "Giornata 4"

883

Tyree Daye: "The Lord's Corner"

884

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

885

Margo Berdeshevsky: "Somewhere Everywhere"

886

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

887

A. A. Milne: "Furry Bear"

888

Malika Booker: "Jesus in the Wilderness"

889

Marie-Ovide Dorcely: "Sojourner"

890

Richard Scott: "Peridot"

891

Amanda Johnston: "Bogeymen"

892

Adam Wiedewitsch: "If Night You Were a City"

893

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

894

Wilfred Owen: "Winter Song"

895

Guest Editor Interview: January 2024 Guest Editor Dante Micheaux

896

Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"

897

Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"

898

Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"

899

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

900

Timothy Donnelly: "Habitable Nebula"

901

T. S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi"

902

Christina Rossetti: "[A rose has thorns as well as honey,]"

903

Juliana Huxtable: "KEY AND STRING"

904

Ariana Reines: "The Economy"

905

Tongo Eisen-Martin: "The Patient Ones"

906

Mónica de la Torre: "Theorem of Sorts"

907

Jericho Brown: "Lenoir"

908

John Clare: "Sheep in Winter"

909

Anne Bradstreet: "Winter"

910

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: "suffering succotash"

911

Caleb Femi: "Baseline"

912

Joshua Weiner: "Solstice in Truro"

913

Nancy Kuhl: "Family Secret"

914

Juliana Spahr: "Ode to Goby"

915

Arthur Symons: "The Crying of Water"

916

Margaret Widdemer: "The Dark Cavalier"

917

Mia Kang: "Abracadabra"

918

Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Hanging"

919

Lisa Sewell: "The Land of Nod"

920

Kinsale Drake: "(Re)location"

921

Brian Blanchfield: "Learning"

922

MacKnight Black: "Corliss Engine"

923

Mina Loy: "[There is no Life or Death,]

924

Ira Sadoff: "Thank You"

925

Travis Chi Wing Lau: "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

926

Guest Editor Interview: December 2023 Guest Editor Claudia Rankine

927

Brian Turner: "Corsair"

928

Matthew Minicucci: "Nostalgia"

929

Ruben Quesada: "East of Wyoming, I Remember Matthew Shepard"

930

D’arcy McNickle: "The Mountains"

931

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: "To the Miscodeed"

932

Tobias Wray: "The Last Orgasm"

933

Clemonce Heard: "Bicuspid"

934

Catherine Barnett: "The Specious Present"

935

Shelley Wong: "A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village"

936

Kathy Fagan: "What I Was Looking For"

937

Too-qua-stee: "A Vision of the End"

938

Zitkála-Šá: "The Indian’s Awakening"

939

Matthew Olzmann: "The Earthlings"

940

Lupita Eyde-Tucker: "Without Reparations"

941

Matt W. Miller: "Far Away"

942

Sarah Audsley: "A Massive Aquarium Holding 1,500 Tropical Fish Bursts"

943

SM Stubbs: "Faith"

944

Alexander Posey: "The Bluebird"

945

Mary Cornelia Hartshorne: "Fallen Leaves"

946

Donika Kelly: "I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house."

947

D. A. Powell: "The Miracle of Giving"

948

Flower Conroy: "Frog"

949

Donna Spruijt-Metz: "Hoof"

950

Amy Beeder: "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine Swallowtail"

951

Lynn Riggs: "The Arid Land"

952

Winnie Lewis Gravitt: "Sippokni Sia"

953

Randall Mann: "Cold War"

954

Patrick Phillips: "Galleria Ode"

955

Katie Ford: "Injury Room"

956

Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor Steve Bellin-Oka

957

Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonment"

958

Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49 am"

959

E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"

960

Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"

961

Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"

962

Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"

963

Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2)"

964

Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"

965

Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"

966

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"

967

W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"

968

J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"

969

Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"

970

Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is the river"

971

Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

972

Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"

973

Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"

974

Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"

975

Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"

976

Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

977

Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"

978

Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"

979

Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

980

Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"

981

Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

982

Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"

983

Jasminne Mendez: "Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America"

984

Giovannai Rosa: "a force is a push or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

985

Janel Pineda: "Mujer Malvada"

986

Khadijah Queen: "Season of Grief"

987

Rubén Darío: "Autumnal"

988

Guest Editor Interview: October 2023 Guest Editor Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

989

Naja Marie Aidt: from "Everything Shimmers"

990

Kitty Tsui: "Without Love"

991

Genji Amino: from "n e a r"

992

Alberto Ríos: "To Mars from Arizona"

993

Nellie Wong: "Being pregnant is a dream"

994

Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"

995

José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"

996

Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"

997

Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"

998

Santee Frazier: "Fugal"

999

Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

1000

Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"

1001

Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"

1002

Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"

1003

Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"

1004

Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"

1005

Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

1006

Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"

1007

S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"

1008

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"

1009

Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"

1010

Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"

1011

Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"

1012

Felicia Zamora: "Inner"

1013

Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"

1014

Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"

1015

Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"

1016

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"

1017

Edgar Guest: "Home"

1018

Willyce Kim: "Places"

1019

Guest Editor Interview: September 2023 Guest Editor Eunsong Kim

1020

M. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us lands away"

1021

Julie Ezelle-Patton: [Aeons quest eye on]

1022

Prageeta Sharma: "Lateral Violence"

1023

Julia Bloch: "Valley Oak"

1024

Marianne Moore: "Black Earth"

1025

Maxwell Bodenheim: "Old Age"

1026

Anne Carson: "Short Talk on Pain"

1027

Lauren Russell: "Exposition"

1028

Gabrielle Civil: "Three of Cups"

1029

Hannah Ensor: "Agnes, a sleep"

1030

Jennifer Scappettone: "Syrinx Spring"

1031

Beatrice Ravenel: "The Humming-Bird"

1032

Edgar Lee Masters: "Theodore the Poet"

1033

Douglas Kearney: "Minotaur"

1034

Carlos Soto-Román: "The Tell-Tale Heart"

1035

Serena Chopra: "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

1036

Shivram Gopinath: "Pottu / Dot"

1037

Robin Silbergleid: "Ode to Donor Gametes"

1038

Gwendolyn Bennett: "Moon Tonight"

1039

Charles Reznikoff: "Rhythms (Section I)"

1040

Andrea Abi Karam: "Standing Dead"

1041

Snigdha Koirala: "Fragments on Naturalization"

1042

Lindsey Boldt: "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"

1043

Tanya Lukin Linklater: "Ewako"

1044

Mrigaa Sethi: "Names for Hunger"

1045

Genevieve Taggard: "Skull Song"

1046

Conrad Aiken: "Senlin: A Biography (Part I, Section II)"

1047

Ariel Resnikoff: "ghost canto"

1048

Pattie McCarthy: from "outgoing tide—"

1049

Michael Leong: "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

1050

Tarfia Faizullah: "Poem Without Love"

1051

Guest Editor Interview: August 2023 Guest Editor Divya Victor

1052

Petra Kuppers: "Forest Starships"

1053

Margaret Fairless Barber: "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

1054

Henry Lawson: "Faces in the Street"

1055

Sheila Black: "The Earth"

1056

Tala Khanmalek: "Louise"

1057

Ralph James Savarese: "The Bearing Edge"

1058

Raymond Luczak: "Otters"

1059

Pia Täavila-Borsheim: "My Friend, Her Grandson"

1060

Thomas Blacklock: "The Author's Picture"

1061

Anna Williams: "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

1062

Johnson Cheu: "Wail"

1063

Nathan Spoon: "The Genie Speaks"

1064

DJ Savarese: "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"

1065

Frank Gallimore: "Parasitoid"

1066

Maija Haavisto: "Ship/Plum"

1067

Mary Toles Peet: "To a Bride"

1068

Isaac Watts: "The Sluggard"

1069

Jill Khoury: "Sleep Hygiene"

1070

Roberto Cabrera: "Oregon State Hospital"

1071

Nazifa Islam: "Stability Is a Feeling"

1072

Simone Person: "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

1073

The Cyborg Jillian Weise: "Snow Globe of Denver"

1074

Annie Charlotte Dalton: "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

1075

James Nack: "The Music of Beauty"

1076

Brian Koukol: "Necromancy for the Bitter"

1077

Latif Askia Ba: "Douglass Pool"

1078

Kris Ringman: "Oak Skin"

1079

Abiola Haroun: "Identity Voodoo"

1080

Hayley Broadway: "Power Out!"

1081

Alice Cornelia Jennings: "A Prayer in Signs"

1082

William Gay: "A Sick-Room Idyll"

1083

Guest Editor Interview: July 2023 Guest Editor John Lee Clark

1084

Rosmarie Waldrop: "A Valentine that Can’t Be Sent"

1085

Cynthia Arrieu-King: "Ming the Clam"

1086

José Felipe Alvergue: "mobile architecture"

1087

Zaina Alsous: "Subjunctive"

1088

Killarney Clary: "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"

1089

Willa Cather: "The Star Dial"

1090

Arthur Rimbaud: from “A Season in Hell [Delirium I]”

1091

D. S. Marriott: "Letter on Alladat"

1092

Chia-Lun Chang: "Vote Your Way to Hell"

1093

Mark Nowak: from "...Again"

1094

Leslie Sainz: "Sonnet for Ochún"

1095

Chris Nealon: from "All About You"

1096

Michael Field: "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

1097

Oscar Wilde: "The New Remorse"

1098

Wendy Trevino: "Poem"

1099

Bhanu Kapil: "Pilgrimage"

1100

S. Brook Corfman: "Malice"

1101

Hai-Dang Phan: "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

1102

Susan Landers: "Holly Says Sobriety is Paying Attention"

1103

Amy Lowell: "The Weather-Cock Points South"

1104

C. P. Cavafy: "Walls"

1105

Cody-Rose Clevidence: from "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

1106

Vanessa Jimenez Gabb: "Mahogany"

1107

Isabel Neal: "Drought Essay"

1108

JJJJJerome Ellis: "Instructions Before Stuttering"

1109

Maxe Crandall: "Sappho for Everybody"

1110

Sara Teasdale: "Sappho"

1111

Hart Crane: "Recitative"

1112

Jameka Williams: "Self-Care Is a Psy-Op"

1113

Oliver Baez Bendorf: "New Moon Newton"

1114

Guest Editor Interview: June 2023 Guest Editor Brian Teare

1115

Franny Choi: "Time-Sensitive"

1116

Andrea Gibson: "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down."

1117

CAConrad: from "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”

1118

Tao Yuanming: "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit"

1119

Li Qingzhao: "The Wild Swans"

1120

Michael Torres: "Writing Prompt"

1121

Perry Janes: "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful."

1122

Janice Lobo Sapigao: "HomeGoods"

1123

Crystal Valentine: "Blood Sex"

1124

Jason Bayani: "Someday, Again"

1125

Fernando M. Maramág: "Moonlight on Manila Bay"

1126

Angela Manalang-Gloria: "Yellow Moon"

1127

Rachel McKibbens: "Mentor"

1128

Anis Mojgani: "To the Sea"

1129

Diana Khoi Nguyen: "Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)"

1130

Jeremy Radin: "Evening"

1131

Jennifer Givhan: "My Mom's Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life"

1132

Harindranath Chattopadhyaya: "Noon"

1133

Pankajini Basu: "Basanta Panchami"

1134

Sam Sax: "Pedagogy"

1135

Debra Allbery: "Sidereal"

1136

Jade Cho: "Three Months Since"

1137

Cameron Awkward-Rich: "My Life Closed Twice"

1138

Safia Elhillo: "Amsterdam"

1139

Jun Fujita: "[A frail hepatica]"

1140

Allison Hutchcraft: "Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke"

1141

Elizabeth Acevedo: "Self-Portrait as Lilith"

1142

Jay Deshpande: "Wanting a Child"

1143

Leigh Lucas: "Dirtbag"

1144

Sarah Kay: "In the House With No Doors"

1145

Sandra Lim: "Poem"

1146

Guest Editor Interview: May 2023 Guest Editor Hieu Minh Nguyen

1147

William Faulkner: "[The ringèd moon sits eerily]"

1148

RK Fauth: "Playing with Bees"

1149

Kevin Young: "Ledge"

1150

Rebecca Lindenberg: "The Splendid Body"

1151

Ross Gay: "Throwing Children"

1152

Ansel Elkins: "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

1153

Natalie Diaz: "Alchemy Horse"

1154

Hilda Conkling: "Gift"

1155

John James: "Lullaby"

1156

Camille T. Dungy: "let grow more winter fat / wine-cup / western wild rose"

1157

Analicia Sotelo: "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

1158

Roger Reeves: "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

1159

Matthew Zapruder: "Poem for a Suicide"

1160

Jake Skeets: "Anthropocenic"

1161

Ibn al-Fāriḍ: from the "Khamriyyah"

1162

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi: "[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,]"

1163

Diane Seuss: "Folk Song"

1164

Tiana Clark: "After the Reading"

1165

José Olivarez: "yes the business folk"

1166

Paul Tran: "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

1167

Jennifer L. Knox: "Prayer of the Shy Forest"

1168

Imruʾ al-Qais: from "The Ode of Ímr el Káis"

1169

Edna K. Saloomey: "My Lebanon"

1170

Carl Phillips: "Western Edge"

1171

Dana Levin: "Dream Nest"

1172

Molly McCully Brown: "Virginia, Autumn"

1173

Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"

1174

Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"

1175

Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"

1176

al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]"

1177

Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor Ada Limón

1178

Danez Smith: "anti poetica"

1179

Jane Huffman: "On Moving"

1180

Lisa Olstein: "Horse"

1181

Dana Roeser: "Mouth"

1182

Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"

1183

Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"

1184

Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"

1185

Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"

1186

Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

1187

Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"

1188

Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"

1189

Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"

1190

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"

1191

Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"

1192

Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"

1193

Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"

1194

Aaron Smith: "Sissy"

1195

Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"

1196

Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Electricity"

1197

Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"

1198

Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"

1199

Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter"

1200

Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"

1201

Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"

1202

Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"

1203

Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills'"

1204

George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"

1205

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"

1206

Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"

1207

Maxine Scates: "Look"

1208

Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Hey,"

1209

Guest Editor Interview: March 2023 Guest Editor Diane Seuss

1210

John S. Blake: "No Room to Form"

1211

Charif Shanahan: "Indeterminacy"

1212

Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Slow through the Dark"

1213

Helene Johnson: "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

1214

Adrian Matejka: "October Sonnet"

1215

Frank X Walker: "Neoteric Kama No Sutra"

1216

Jari Bradley: "Boihood"

1217

Faylita Hicks: "Self-Care"

1218

avery r. young: "her aint even at de funeral"

1219

Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés: "Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother"

1220

Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Eyes of My Regret"

1221

Remica Bingham-Risher: "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"

1222

Lynne Thompson: "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

1223

Tommye Blount: "An Act of Love"

1224

francine j. harris: "Wetland"

1225

Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"

1226

Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"

1227

Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"

1228

Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"

1229

Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"

1230

Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"

1231

Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"

1232

Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"

1233

Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"

1234

Anne Spencer: "Substitution"

1235

Imani Davis: "Kink"

1236

Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

1237

Evie Shockley: "black love"

1238

Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Editor Patricia Smith

1239

Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"

1240

Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

1241

Max Eastman: "X Rays"

1242

Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"

1243

Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

1244

Chloe Honum: "Devonport"

1245

Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"

1246

Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"

1247

Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"

1248

Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"

1249

Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"

1250

Erin Rose Coffin: "Remembering Our First Parties"

1251

Fred L. Joiner: "Sikasso Snow"

1252

Hafizah Augustus Geter: "Praise Song"

1253

Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"

1254

Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"

1255

Countee Cullen: "Confession"

1256

Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"

1257

A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

1258

K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"

1259

Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"

1260

Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing"

1261

Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"

1262

John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"

1263

Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"

1264

Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . . ."

1265

Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Standing Behind Me in Line"

1266

Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"

1267

Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"

1268

Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

1269

Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"

1270

Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Editor Tyree Daye

1271

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"

1272

Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"

1273

Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"

1274

Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"

1275

Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

1276

Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden"

1277

Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"

1278

Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"

1279

Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"

1280

Monica Sok: "Retirement"

1281

Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"

1282

Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"

1283

John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"

1284

Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"

1285

Esther Popel: "Theft"

1286

Jeffrey Yang: "[Early lexicographers and missionaries]"

1287

Gregory Pardlo: from "Giornata"

1288

Cintia Santana: "apocalyptic lyric"

1289

Dan Beachy-Quick: "Onta"

1290

Chloe Garcia Roberts: Rendering from “Historia Verdadera: Capítulo CLII”

1291

Nancy Cunard: from "Parallax"

1292

Louise Bogan: "A Tale"

1293

Cynthia Cruz: "Deathscape Lullaby"

1294

Mark Irwin: "Nike of Samothrace"

1295

A. Van Jordan: "Grandfather"

1296

Sherwin Bitsui: "Triptych"

1297

Henri Cole: "At Sixty-Five"

1298

Robert Frost: "The Aim Was Song"

1299

Emily Brontë: "To a Wreath of Snow"

1300

Jenny George: "Sunflowers"

1301

dg nanouk okpik: "Inupiaq Women"

1302

Guest Editor Interview: December 2022 Guest Editor Arthur Sze

1303

Victoriano Cárdenas: "Still Life of Cárdenas Hacienda with Cats"

1304

George Abraham: "Unarcheology of 'Father'"

1305

Ángel García: "Vestiges"

1306

John Rollin Ridge: "The Harp of Broken Strings"

1307

Carlos Montezuma: "I Have Stood up for You"

1308

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi: "The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis"

1309

Laura Tohe: "Nálí, Her Solo"

1310

Sebastián H. Páramo: "The Tejano Considers Seeds"

1311

Kenzie Allen: "109 Bermuda"

1312

Crisosto Apache: "Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits"

1313

Alexander Posey: "Song of the Oktahutche"

1314

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "Drifting"

1315

Tara Betts: "Untitled for a Reason"

1316

Jada Renée Allen: "Tendril"

1317

Dara Yen Elerath: "The White Paws"

1318

Brandon Som: "Resistors"

1319

Norla Chee: "Navajo Mountain"

1320

D'Arcy McNickle: "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

1321

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior"

1322

Boderra Joe: "Curve Waves"

1323

Chip Livingston: "There Is No San Lenín"

1324

Tacey M. Atsitty: "Coyote Sees Himself in Water"

1325

Max Early: "Deer's Breath of Every Color"

1326

John James: "Echo of Origin"

1327

Too-qua-stee: "Truth Is Mortal"

1328

Zitkála-Šá: "Iris of Life"

1329

Kyce Bello: from "Far Country"

1330

Haesong Kwon: "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

1331

Michael McGriff: "Inversion"

1332

Joaquín Zihuatanejo: "102"

1333

Guest Editor Interview: November 2022 Guest Editor Jake Skeets

1334

Eduardo C. Corral: "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"

1335

Walter de la Mare: "The Listeners"

1336

Felicia Dorothea Hemans: "The Haunted House"

1337

Jan-Henry Gray: "Ghazal of Oranges"

1338

Oswaldo Vargas: "Mister"

1339

Dujie Tahat: "On Desire"

1340

Alan Pelaez Lopez: "Overalls"

1341

Anni Liu: "Lake of the Isles"

1342

John Clare: "An Invite to Eternity"

1343

Christina Rossetti: "A Coast-Nightmare"

1344

Laurel Chen: "Greensickness"

1345

Esther Lin: "Azaleas"

1346

Aline Mello: "The Immigrant"

1347

féi hernandez: "Singing Funeral"

1348

Farid Matuk: "Mimesis"

1349

Thomas Hardy: "The Shadow on the Stone"

1350

Carolina Coronado: "The Lost Bird"

1351

Ariana Brown: "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"

1352

Afua Ansong: "what we did while waiting for the rain"

1353

Jesús I. Valles: "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

1354

Carolina Ebeid: "from 'Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts'"

1355

Tobi Kassim: "A Blind Spot, Awash"

1356

Rafael Arévalo Martínez: "My Life Is a Memory"

1357

Alfonso Guillén Zelaya: "Lord, I Ask a Garden. . ."

1358

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "Angelica Root"

1359

Denice Frohman: "The Art of Shooting in the Dark"

1360

Wo Chan: "Wonder Wheel"

1361

Anthony Cody: "'Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,' a Lost Image Reclamation"

1362

Marwa Helal: "the poem is a dream telling you its time"

1363

Luis Carlos López: "Verses to the Moon"

1364

Samira Negrouche: "Anna"

1365

Guest Editor Interview: October 2022 Guest Editor Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

1366

Sarah Mangold: "The Atom No. 18"

1367

Jacob Griffin Hall: "What Now"

1368

Lois P. Jones: "Between Fulmination and Adoration"

1369

Monifa Love: "Abraham Lincoln Turns to Listen to the Lower Ninth"

1370

Susan Nguyen: "How to Forgive"

1371

Johannes V. Jensen: "At Memphis Station"

1372

Najwan Darwish: "Near the Shrine of Saint Naum"

1373

Rachel Blau DuPlessis: "Conjure"

1374

Stacey Waite: "Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak"

1375

Jóhann Hjálmarsson: "Observation Deck"

1376

Katy Didden: "Ore Choir: The Priest Questions the Lava"

1377

Aliah Lavonne Tigh: "Pathogenesis"

1378

Euripides: "The Bird-Choros of Ion"

1379

Zahid M. Naser: "kretek-ing"

1380

Alan Michael Parker: "Feti’s Border Crossing"

1381

Liana Sakelliou: "Fatherland"

1382

Mona Lisa Saloy: "God Was Willing Sis: I’m Home"

1383

Scott Hightower: "Last Privacy"

1384

Andrea Carter Brown: "On Reading Allen Ginsberg’s 'Homework'"

1385

Marcantonio Flaminio: "Fête Gallante"

1386

Jeannette L. Clariond: "who were these goddesses"

1387

Peter Balakian: "Little Richard"

1388

Tony Medina: "I’ve Got the Covid Blues"

1389

Lois Roma-Deeley: "Wild Horses Drink from the River of History"

1390

Kate Gale: "Chickens"

1391

Elena Karina Byrne: "Karma"

1392

Morris Rosenfeld: "The Nightingale to the Workman"

1393

Luís de Camões: "Sonnet VIII"

1394

Susan McCabe: "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"

1395

Tanella Boni: from "There where it’s so bright in me"

1396

Guest Editor Interview: September 2022 Guest Editor Cynthia Hogue

1397

Michelle Whittaker: "Our Quarantine Story"

1398

Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"

1399

Catherine Barnett: "2020"

1400

Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"

1401

Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"

1402

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "​​Pole| |Sport"

1403

Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"

1404

Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"

1405

Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

1406

Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"

1407

Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"

1408

Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"

1409

t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of faith"

1410

Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm]

1411

Ellen Bass: "Fracture"

1412

Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"

1413

Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"

1414

William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"

1415

Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"

1416

Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"

1417

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree"

1418

Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"

1419

Stephanie Cawley: "Not"

1420

Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cicada"

1421

Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"

1422

Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"

1423

Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, April 2014"

1424

Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"

1425

Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"

1426

Diamond Forde: "Rememory"

1427

Rajiv Mohabir: "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"

1428

Guest Editor Interview: August 2022 Guest Editor Donika Kelly

1429

George Santayana: "Cape Cod"

1430

Zinaida Gippius: [I seek for rhythmic whisperings]

1431

Saretta Morgan: from “Consequences upon Arrival”

1432

Simone White: "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"

1433

Charles Bernstein: "Why Do You Love the Poem?"

1434

Uche Nduka: "Document"

1435

Deborah Paredez: “Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans”

1436

Edwin Arlington Robinson: "The Sheaves"

1437

Edith Sitwell: "Fireworks"

1438

Jena Osman: "Dissent and the Hydra"

1439

Tyrone Williams: "stilettos in a rifle range"

1440

Patricia Spears Jones: "Saturnine"

1441

Mihee Kim: "time travel"

1442

César Vallejo: "Spider"

1443

Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 60"

1444

Leonora Speyer "The Locust"

1445

Kit Robinson: "Leaves of Today"

1446

Xan Phillips: "I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One"

1447

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: "Lineage Anagrams II"

1448

Jennifer Firestone: from "Consequences of a Heavy Heart"

1449

Lam Lai: "I, New York"

1450

Robinson Jeffers: "The Treasure"

1451

Harriet Monroe: "In the Yellowstone"

1452

Jaye Elizabeth Elijah: "fire danger high today"

1453

Major Jackson: "Language of the Moon"

1454

Lauren K. Alleyne: "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

1455

Ed Roberson: "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"

1456

Emily Skillings: "Tenant"

1457

John Gould Fletcher: "Lincoln"

1458

Emily Dickinson: "Answer July"

1459

Rosamond S. King: "Do not trust the eraser"

1460

Guest Editor Interview: July 2022 Guest Editor Erica Hunt

1461

Anne Spencer: "Dunbar"

1462

giovanni singleton: "b&w sonnet no. 1"

1463

Will Alexander: "Darkened Solar Implication"

1464

Pierre Joris: "On September 14th, Dante’s Death Day"

1465

Bryher: "The Pool"

1466

Amy Lowell: "A Decade"

1467

Ariana Reines: from "The Rose"

1468

Nat Raha: "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

1469

Manal Kara: "[Country people enjoy dogs...]"

1470

Kaveh Akbar: "Love Poem with Bighead"

1471

Jordan Jace: "I want"

1472

Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Emancipation"

1473

Bruce Nugent: "My Love"

1474

Ava Hofmann: "Mentally missturbed"

1475

fahima ife: "our general banality"

1476

Henneh Kyereh Kwaku: "dent"

1477

Sawako Nakayasu: from "Pink Waves"

1478

Jasmine Gibson: "Bird In Hand"

1479

Sappho: "One Girl"

1480

A. E. Housman: "A Shropshire Lad, XXX"

1481

Rindon Johnson: "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

1482

Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "sky hammer"

1483

Chase Berggrun: "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

1484

manuel arturo abreu: "Klangfarbenmelodie"

1485

Alain Mabanckou: from "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day"

1486

Elsa Gidlow: "Of a Certain Friendship"

1487

Hart Crane: "Voyages V"

1488

Claire Meuschke: "Caught Sight"

1489

Brandon Shimoda: "Rest House"

1490

essa may ranapiri: "Hinemoana"

1491

Guest Editor Interview: June 2022 Guest Editor Jos Charles

1492

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"

1493

Sage Uʻilani Takehiro: "Fire Dragon"

1494

Sarojini Naidu: "The Gift of India"

1495

Iris Tree: "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

1496

Arielle Taitano Lowe: "The Weavers Were the First to Know"

1497

Terisa Siagatonu: "The Only Place in the U.S. with Zero COVID Deaths"

1498

Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas: "By Your Hand"

1499

Dan Taulapapa McMullin: "The Viole(n)t Cat"

1500

Art 25: Art in the 25th Century: "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

1501

Laura Riding Jackson: "Ahead and Around"

1502

Louis Untermeyer: "Dorothy Dances"

1503

kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui: "huki the gate"

1504

Christy Passion: "Waikīkī Returns"

1505

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "Our Red Road"

1506

Leora Kava: "pronunciation"

1507

Mahealani Perez-Wendt: "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"

1508

Ono no Komachi: "[The flowers and my love,]"

1509

Sadakichi Hartmann: "Nocturne"

1510

Emelihter Kihleng: "Envy"

1511

leilani portillo: "in our chant of the creation of the world"

1512

Imaikalani Kalahele: "Contact Zone"

1513

Ngaio Simmons: "Whānau"

1514

Evelyn Flores: "The Flame Tree"

1515

Charles Reznikoff: "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,]"

1516

Nisha Atalie: "Do/Do Not"

1517

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: "For Mauna a Wākea"

1518

Penina Ava Taesali: from "What kind of times are these?"

1519

Craig Santos Perez: "Love in a Time of Covid-19"

1520

Dana Naone Hall: "Remembering"

1521

Joe Balaz: "Message to My Sistah"

1522

Guest Editor Interview: May 2022 Guest Editor Brandy Nālani McDougall

1523

Yvor Winters: "The Moonlight"

1524

Liza Katz Duncan: "Apostrophe"

1525

C. Prudence Arceneaux: "Menopause"

1526

Clemonce Heard: "The United States of Montessori"

1527

Kim Stafford: "For the Bird Singing before Dawn"

1528

Matt Gonzalez: "Remember the Puns & Brashbrandy"

1529

Deema K. Shehabi: "Vista"

1530

Jamil B. Holway: "Throbbings"

1531

KB Brookins: "Good Grief"

1532

Nathalie Handal: "The City"

1533

Zeina Hashem Beck: "Time,"

1534

Michael Simms: "Imperfect"

1535

Cyrus Cassells: "Guitarrero!"

1536

Home: "Ken Cockburn"

1537

Evelyn Scott: "From Brooklyn"

1538

E. E. Cummings: "[since feeling is first]"

1539

Mosab Abu Toha: "Mouth Still Open"

1540

Cecily Parks: "Sunday"

1541

Rosemary Catacalos: "Mr. Chairman Takes His Leave"

1542

José Antonio Rodríguez: "Mercy"

1543

Jenny Browne: "Late Fermata"

1544

May Sinclair: "The Dark Night (XVIII)"

1545

Ameen Rihani: "Gone with the Swallows"

1546

Loretta Diane Walker: "Imagining My Neighbor"

1547

Zeina Azzam: "Nine Spice Mix"

1548

Kirk Wilson: "Gifts"

1549

Samuel Hazo: "High, Higher, Highest"

1550

Robin Robertson: "On Time"

1551

Vita Sackville-West: from "The Land"

1552

Kahlil Gibran: from "Sand and Foam"

1553

Mohja Kahf: "​​The Aunty Poem (Mi Privilege Es Su Privilege)"

1554

Guest Editor Interview: April 2022 Guest Editor Naomi Shihab Nye

1555

Brian Tierney: "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"

1556

Tina Chang: "Lion"

1557

Farnaz Fatemi: "Farnaz"

1558

Mark Wunderlich: "My Local Dead"

1559

Laura Riding Jackson: "The Spring Has Many Silences"

1560

Angelina Weld Grimké: "At the Spring Dawn"

1561

Jameson Fitzpatrick: "Divorce Song"

1562

Dana Jaye Cadman: "Ghosts"

1563

Monica Ferrell: "In Safranbolu"

1564

Rio Cortez: "Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film"

1565

Victoria Redel: "The Pact"

1566

Djuna Barnes: "Pastoral"

1567

Gertrude Stein: "Much Later"

1568

Evan Gill Smith: "The Cow Speaks to the Child"

1569

Eugenia Leigh: "Glossolalia"

1570

Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"

1571

Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"

1572

Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"

1573

Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"

1574

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"

1575

Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"

1576

Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

1577

Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"

1578

Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"

1579

Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"

1580

Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"

1581

Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

1582

Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"

1583

Alicia Mountain: "Drift"

1584

Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"

1585

Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"

1586

Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor Brenda Shaughnessy

1587

Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"

1588

Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"

1589

Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"

1590

Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

1591

Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"

1592

Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"

1593

Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"

1594

Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"

1595

Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"

1596

Waring Cuney: "No Images"

1597

Gail Mazur: "The Flea"

1598

Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"

1599

Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"

1600

Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"

1601

E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"

1602

Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"

1603

Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"

1604

Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"

1605

Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"

1606

Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"

1607

Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"

1608

Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Painting by Kathy Goodell"

1609

Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"

1610

Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"

1611

Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"

1612

Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"

1613

Sharon Olds: "Not Once"

1614

Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alter Ego”

1615

Guest Editor Interview: February 2022 Guest Editor John Murillo

1616

Tamiko Beyer: February

1617

Sara Teasdale: "The Crystal Gazer"

1618

Stéphane Mallarmé: "Apparition"

1619

Eve L. Ewing: "testify"

1620

Sahar Romani: "Afternoon in Andalusia

1621

Jennifer Jean: "Inspiration Point"

1622

Bino A. Realuyo: "Euler's Equation"

1623

Su Hwang: "Little Matrons"

1624

Dorothy Parker: "Recurrence"

1625

Chaman Lall: "Departure"

1626

Safia Jama: "It’s Not Really about Them, It’s about Us"

1627

Jared Harél: "January 20, 2021"

1628

Christopher Santiago: "Insurrecto"

1629

Dimitri Reyes: "[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.]"

1630

Hossannah Asuncion: "Suspending Disbelief While Brown, Part II"

1631

W. E. B. Du Bois: "The Song of the Smoke"

1632

Mary Weston Fordham: "A Reverie"

1633

F. Douglas Brown: "Aubade with Edits"

1634

KC Trommer: "Self-lit"

1635

Jennifer Martelli: "Corinthians 13:11"

1636

Patrick Philips: "Having a Fight with You"

1637

Zohra Saed: "Walnuts in Nangarhar"

1638

Mina Loy: "Songs to Joannes, VII"

1639

Yone Noguchi: [The faint shadow of the morning moon?]

1640

Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Red Delicious"

1641

Celeste Guzmán Mendoza: "Man Praying—Encroachment"

1642

Rohan Chhetri: "Acedia Sestina"

1643

Truong Tran: from "begin again"

1644

Cathy Song: "April Moon"

1645

William Moore: "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

1646

Carrie Williams Clifford: "The New Year"

1647

Guest Editor Interview: January 2022 Guest Editor Joseph O. Legaspi

1648

Federico García Lorca: "Farewell"

1649

Karen Head: "Venus de Milo: On Being Rediscovered"

1650

Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"

1651

Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"

1652

Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"

1653

Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"

1654

Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"

1655

Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"

1656

Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"

1657

Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"

1658

Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"

1659

Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"

1660

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"

1661

Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"

1662

Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"

1663

Meg Day: "Vespers"

1664

Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"

1665

Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"

1666

Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"

1667

Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"

1668

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"

1669

David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"

1670

Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"

1671

Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"

1672

Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everything"

1673

J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"

1674

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"

1675

Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

1676

Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"

1677

Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"

1678

Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"

1679

Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

1680

Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"

1681

Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"

1682

Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"

1683

William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"

1684

Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"

1685

Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"

1686

Kathy Engel: "It would be water"

1687

Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"

1688

Lynn Riggs: "Rhythm of Rain"

1689

Emily Pauline Johnson: "The Lost Lagoon"

1690

Sean Hill: "The White-headed Woodpecker"

1691

Angela C. Trudell Vasquez: "In the Discount Lot"

1692

James Crews: "Self-Compassion"

1693

CMarie Fuhrman: "Anne"

1694

Wendy Vardaman: "what we learn in time of pestilence"

1695

Carlos Montezuma: "Changing Is Not Vanishing"

1696

Wa Wa Chaw: The Indians' Spirits

1697

Erin Coughlin Hollowell: "Maria and Oceanus"

1698

Max Garland: "In the Meantime"

1699

Camisha L. Jones: "On Working Remotely & No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"

1700

Soham Patel: "Ultra Orator Spell"

1701

Cristina M. R. Norcross: "Jellyfish Olympics"

1702

Ruth Muskrat Bronson: "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"

1703

Alexander Posey: "Autumn"

1704

Ching-In Chen: "Inside me, a family"

1705

Rasha Abdulhadi: "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

1706

Molly McGlennen: "Vermilion"

1707

Orlando Ricardo Menes: "Tower of Babel"

1708

Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor Kimberly Blaeser

1709

Manny Loley: "Let There Be"

1710

James Hogg: "A Witch's Chant"

1711

Charlotte Dacre: "Mildew"

1712

Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Black Finger"

1713

Solmaz Sharif: "Visa"

1714

Traci Brimhall: "Aubade on a Ghost Hunt"

1715

Shivanee Ramlochan: "Witch Hindu"

1716

Suji Kwock Kim: from "Disorient: Children of the Revolution"

1717

Thomas Lovell Beddoes: "A Song on the Water"

1718

Charlotte Smith: "Sonnet XLIV"

1719

Noor Hindi: "Breaking [News]"

1720

Ann-Margaret Lim: "One Summer"

1721

Gabrielle Bates: "Dear Birmingham"

1722

Aria Aber: "Waiting for Your Call"

1723

Rita Dove: "Incantation of the First Order"

1724

Alfonsina Storni: "Running Water"

1725

Leopoldo Lugones: "Journey"

1726

Edil Hassan: "Under the Tuscan Sun (2003): A Romance I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶r̶u̶p̶t̶e̶d̶"

1727

Tiana Clark: "Proof"

1728

Lisa Russ Spaar: "Driving"

1729

Erika L. Sánchez: "Departure"

1730

torrin a. greathouse: "Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song"

1731

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Caprice"

1732

Narciso Tondreau: "Yesterday and To-Day"

1733

Shara McCallum: from "Passage"

1734

Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag"

1735

francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."

1736

Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"

1737

Ada Limón: "Lover"

1738

Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"

1739

Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"

1740

Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Safiya Sinclair

1741

Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"

1742

Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"

1743

Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"

1744

Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood"

1745

Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"

1746

Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"

1747

Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"

1748

John Keene: "Looking at Photos"

1749

Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

1750

Monica Youn: "Leave"

1751

Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"

1752

Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"

1753

José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"

1754

Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"

1755

Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"

1756

Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

1757

Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"

1758

Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"

1759

David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"

1760

Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this world its state...]"

1761

Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"

1762

Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"

1763

Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"

1764

Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"

1765

Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"

1766

Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora Spicer: "NN3"

1767

Claude McKay: "French Leave"

1768

Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"

1769

Fanny Howe: "Margo"

1770

Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"

1771

Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor Rosa Alcalá

1772

TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa,"

1773

Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"

1774

Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"

1775

John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"

1776

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"

1777

Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"

1778

Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous Iranian Pop Singer Dariush"

1779

Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"

1780

Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"

1781

Barton Smock: "Soonisms"

1782

Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Dreams On"

1783

Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"

1784

Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human micropoem*"

1785

Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"

1786

Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"

1787

E. C. Belli: "Vows"

1788

Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"

1789

Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"

1790

Winifred Welles: "Exile"

1791

Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"

1792

Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"

1793

Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood"

1794

Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"

1795

Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I meditate"

1796

Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"

1797

Tu Fu: "The River Village"

1798

Cammy Thomas: "French Toast"

1799

Timmy Straw: "Copernicus"

1800

Kimberly Alidio: "a feeling has passed before a charted present"

1801

Dan Lau: "XX Judgement"

1802

Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kazim Ali

1803

Dan Rosenberg: "Order"

1804

Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"

1805

Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"

1806

Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."

1807

Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"

1808

Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America..."

1809

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"

1810

Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"

1811

Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"

1812

George Moses Horton: "Memory"

1813

Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"

1814

Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Life)"

1815

Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door"

1816

Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"

1817

Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"

1818

George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"

1819

Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"

1820

Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"

1821

Roya Marsh: "Rememory"

1822

Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

1823

Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"

1824

Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"

1825

Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"

1826

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"

1827

S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"

1828

Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"

1829

Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."

1830

Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"

1831

Wo Chan: "the shoes"

1832

Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"

1833

Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"

1834

Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fine."

1835

Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Erica Doyle

1836

George Abraham: "Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)"

1837

dee(dee) c. ardan: "freedom terrors"

1838

Precious Okoyomon: "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

1839

Tian-Ai: "Aspiration"

1840

Paul Laurence Dunbar: "With the Lark"

1841

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Little Grey Dreams"

1842

Rachel B. Glaser: "As dogs"

1843

Noah Baldino: "Felt Flowers"

1844

Mónica de la Torre: "Remote Disjunctions"

1845

Miller Oberman: "Commas"

1846

McKenzie Toma: "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"

1847

Elsa Gidlow: "I, Lover"

1848

Langston Hughes: "Our Land"

1849

Margarita Cruz: "Mourning"

1850

LA Warman: "Who Hurt You"

1851

Kemi Alabi: "Voice Clear As"

1852

Kamelya Omayma Youssef: "In the ن of it all"

1853

Hao Guang Tse: "to give the thing a name that belongs to something else"

1854

Sarojini Naidu: "June Sunset"

1855

Alexander Posey: "Seashells"

1856

Jon-Michael Frank: "[there must be one thing you can’t have in order to be alive]"

1857

Hazem Fahmy: "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"

1858

Hanae Jonas: "Pastoral"

1859

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker: "I Don’t Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

1860

Deborah Paredez: "Perseverance"

1861

Louise Bogan: "Knowledge"

1862

Eloise Bibb Thompson: "Ode to the Sun"

1863

danilo machado: "(telling)"

1864

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson: "Last Best Niche"

1865

Camille Rankine: "Ways to Disappear"

1866

Ayesha Raees: "All Along, I Laid, Halved"

1867

Guest Editor Interview: June Guest Editor Anaïs Duplan

1868

Chen Chen: "i love you to the moon &"

1869

Li Po: "Looking at the Moon After Rain"

1870

Toru Dutt: "Sonnet—Baugmaree"

1871

Rachel Mennies: "September 23, 2016"

1872

Luther Hughes: "When Struck by Night"

1873

Donika Kelly: "In the Beginning"

1874

Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"

1875

Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"

1876

Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"

1877

Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"

1878

Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"

1879

Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"

1880

Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"

1881

Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"

1882

Jane Wong: "The Waiting"

1883

Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"

1884

Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"

1885

Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"

1886

Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"

1887

Diane Seuss: "Ballad"

1888

Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"

1889

Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"

1890

Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"

1891

Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"

1892

Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure”

1893

Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"

1894

Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"

1895

Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"

1896

Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends—"

1897

Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita Chakraborty

1898

Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"

1899

Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"

1900

Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"

1901

Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"

1902

Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"

1903

Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"

1904

Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"

1905

Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"

1906

Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"

1907

Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"

1908

Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful Thoughts"

1909

Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s The Spring of My Life On My 49th Birthday"

1910

Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence"

1911

Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"

1912

William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of April"

1913

Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"

1914

Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"

1915

David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"

1916

Brian Sneeden: "Memory is Blood Soluble"

1917

Forrest Gander: "Pastoral"

1918

Carol Muske-Dukes: "Grief Dream"

1919

Carrie Williams Clifford: "Life and Death"

1920

André Naffis-Sahely: "The Other Side of Nowhere"

1921

Danusha Laméris: "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

1922

Iris Jamahl Dunkle: "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

1923

Arthur Sze: "Rock Paper Scissors"

1924

Valencia Robin: "After Graduate School"

1925

Alicia Ostriker: "When Love"

1926

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Love Song"

1927

Irvin W. Underhill: "Winter to Spring"

1928

Dunya Mikhail: "One More Love Poem"

1929

Lynne Thompson: "My Einsteinicity"

1930

Lupe Mendez: "La suavecita"

1931

Cynthia Dewi Oka: "The Roots Do a Live Cover of Mayfield’s 'Move On Up'"

1932

Cyrus Cassells: "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

1933

Effie Lee Newsome: "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

1934

Ana Castillo: "A Amazônia está queimando"

1935

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "Ode to Sitting in a Booth"

1936

Angela Peñaredondo: "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

1937

Sokunthary Svay: "I am the Apsara’s daughter"

1938

Natalie Diaz: "excerpts from 'Duned'"

1939

Sandra Gustin: "Cause of Death"

1940

Ina Coolbrith: "After the Winter Rain"

1941

Margaret Noodin: "Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World"

1942

Luisa A. Igloria: "Custody"

1943

Don Mee Choi: "Berlin: 28.6.2019"

1944

Mariah Bosch: "Obituary Generator"

1945

Desiree C. Bailey: "Ex(ile)"

1946

Achy Obejas: "In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t"

1947

Gwendolyn Bennett: "Wind"

1948

Jake Skeets: "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

1949

Alessandra Narváez Varela: "23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart"

1950

Andrea Cote-Botero: "Dear Beth"

1951

Albert Abonado: "Advice for Using Blood in a Poem"

1952

Mahtem Shiferraw: "Blood and Bones"

1953

Tracy K. Smith: "Soulwork"

1954

Ruth Muskrat Bronson: "If You Knew"

1955

Linda Hogan: "Map"

1956

Deborah A. Miranda: "Torch"

1957

Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"

1958

Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"

1959

Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"

1960

Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"

1961

Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sasha Pimentel

1962

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."

1963

Langston Hughes: "My Loves"

1964

Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"

1965

Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor"

1966

Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"

1967

Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"

1968

Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"

1969

Claude McKay: "To Winter"

1970

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"

1971

Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Maritza Soto Has Already Discovered Three Planets"

1972

Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"

1973

Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"

1974

Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"

1975

Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"

1976

Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"

1977

George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"

1978

Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"

1979

Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"

1980

June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"

1981

Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"

1982

Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"

1983

Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"

1984

Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"

1985

Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"

1986

Omotara James: "Pier 52"

1987

Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"

1988

Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"

1989

Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

1990

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"

1991

Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"

1992

Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty supply by Halsted Indoor Mall"

1993

Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"

1994

Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"

1995

Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"

1996

Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"

1997

Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"

1998

Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"

1999

Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"

2000

Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is Asked"

2001

Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Five: 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder'”

2002

Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"

2003

Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"

2004

Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"

2005

H. D.: "Evadne"

2006

Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"

2007

Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning"

2008

Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED: On Imagining That Freedom Probably Feels Like Getting the Itis"

2009

José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"

2010

Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"

2011

Babette Deutsch: "Silence"

2012

Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"

2013

Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"

2014

Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"

2015

beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"

2016

Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"

2017

Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"

2018

George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"

2019

Léonie Adams: "Never Enough of Living"

2020

Jamila Woods: "Day 29 (2020)"

2021

Jacqueline Waters: "Ready for My Statement?"

2022

Eran Eads: "TM"

2023

Brandon Brown: "Dog Park"

2024

Prageeta Sharma: "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"

2025

Charles Bertram Johnson: "A Song of Hope"

2026

Emily Dickinson: "That is solemn we have ended,— (87)"

2027

Nate Klug: "Jasmine"

2028

Merrill Gilfillan: "Just After Dawn"

2029

Noah Ross: "echium swallows"

2030

Ely Shipley: "Hiatus"

2031

Genya Turovskaya: "Wisterical"

2032

Angelina Weld Grimké: "A Winter Twilight"

2033

Jones Very: "The Winter Bird"

2034

Michael Wasson: "So Call It Grace"

2035

Jenny Johnson: "Pedal"

2036

G. E. Patterson: "The Keeping Room"

2037

Eric Ekstrand: "Family Solo"

2038

Aditi Machado: "Then"

2039

Fenton Johnson: "Revery"

2040

Lola Ridge: "Altitude"

2041

Robyn Schiff: "Oak Gall Wasp"

2042

Anne Carson: "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"

2043

Zach Savich: "Rust Honey"

2044

Donna Stonecipher: "The Ruins of Nostalgia 59"

2045

Yona Harvey: "Hickory Street, New Orleans"

2046

Otto Leland Bohanan: "Villanelle"

2047

Mina Loy: "Love Songs (section III)"

2048

Richard Siken: "Real Estate"

2049

Eileen Myles: "Howl"

2050

Raquel Gutiérrez: "Would It Kill Me To Be A Nicer Guy?"

2051

Mark McMorris: "The Thought of the World"

2052

b: william bearhart: "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

2053

John Rollin Ridge: "Random Thoughts of Her"

2054

Ruth Muskrat Bronson: from “Sonnets from the Cherokee”

2055

Ishmael Angaluuk Hope: "Dance Practice"

2056

Gordon Henry: "It was Snowing on the Monuments"

2057

Janet McAdams: "Lie"

2058

Tiffany Midge: "Distracted from COVID-19, Attention Shifts to MIA Maiden from Land O’Lakes Butter Box"

2059

Mark Turcotte: "Dear New Blood"

2060

Paul Celan: "So Many Constellations"

2061

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "A Picture"

2062

Aricka Foreman: "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"

2063

William Reichard: "In the Evening"

2064

Eric Gansworth: "The Word for Gossip"

2065

Tanaya Winder: "Becoming a Ghost"

2066

Michael Torres: "Pockets"

2067

Bertrand N.O. Walker: "A Mojave Lullaby"

2068

Margaret Noodin: "To the Pine Tree" by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

2069

Aimee Suzara: "Amphibious"

2070

Melanie Figg: "A Rogue Dream"

2071

LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"

2072

Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

2073

Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

2074

Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"

2075

Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"

2076

Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"

2077

Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to Death"

2078

Rena Priest: "The Index"

2079

James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"

2080

Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"

2081

Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"

2082

Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"

2083

Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a temporal art"

2084

Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"

2085

Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering Images"

2086

Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"

2087

Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monument"

2088

Kevin Killian: "Free"

2089

Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"

2090

Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"

2091

Margaret Ross: "Evolution"

2092

Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"

2093

Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"

2094

Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"

2095

Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"

2096

Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Singing"

2097

Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"

2098

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: "[untitled]"

2099

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "Time-lapse Video Of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like A Dying Star"

2100

C. Dale Young: "Melancholia"

2101

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: "Flying Down the Five"

2102

José Martí: "Love in the City"

2103

Louise Glück: "The Red Poppy"

2104

Javier Zamora: "Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño"

2105

Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dysphoria"

2106

Brenda Cárdenas: "Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas"

2107

Peggy Robles–Alvarado: "When I Became La Promesa"

2108

Rafael Campo: "California"

2109

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Love Opened a Mortal Wound"

2110

Enrique Villasis & Bernard Capinpin: "Birds in Flight, 1965"

2111

Anthony Cody: "brd"

2112

Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Pledge Allegiance"

2113

Carmen Gimenéz Smith: "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

2114

Gary Soto: "In Praise of Dreams"

2115

Diannely Antigua: "Anniversary"

2116

Gabriela Mistral: "The Teller of Tales"

2117

Yau Ching & Chenxin Jiang: "Trial Run"

2118

Darrel Alejandro Holnes: "Black Parade"

2119

Rosebud Ben-Oni: "So They Say— They Finally Nailed— the Proton’s Size— & Hope— Dies—"

2120

Martín Espada: "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances"

2121

Richard Blanco: "Maine Yet Miami"

2122

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: "Battlegrounds"

2123

William Carlos Williams: "A Portrait in Greys"

2124

Julio Pazos Barrera & Bryan Mendoza: "Pegasus Autopsy"

2125

Tomás Q. Morín: "A Pile of Fish"

2126

Nicole Cecilia Delgado & Urayoán Noel: "From Barrio Obrero to La Quince"

2127

Ada Limón: "Give Me This"

2128

Jasminne Mendez: "Along the Border"

2129

Juan Felipe Herrera: "breathe we"

2130

Rubén Darío: "To the Country"

2131

Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng: "Learning Late Letters"

2132

Ashaki M. Jackson: "A Proclamation"

2133

Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"

2134

Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"

2135

Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"

2136

Bettina Judd: "on empathy"

2137

Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"

2138

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"

2139

Nandi Comer: "The Check In"

2140

Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"

2141

Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"

2142

Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"

2143

Starr Davis: "Today, God"

2144

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"

2145

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"

2146

Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"

2147

Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"

2148

Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with Another"

2149

Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"

2150

francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita’s daughters"

2151

Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"

2152

William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"

2153

Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"

2154

Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"

2155

makalani bandele: "sample collected from a superfund site"

2156

Taylor Johnson: "Menace to"

2157

Ashley M. Jones: "ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA"

2158

Myra Viola Wilds: "Dewdrops"

2159

Carrie Williams Clifford: "Together"

2160

Lauren K. Alleyne: "For my Brother(s)"

2161

Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On Center Court"

2162

Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"

2163

Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Praying"

2164

Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training"

2165

Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"

2166

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the People"

2167

Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"

2168

Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity”

2169

Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"

2170

Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"

2171

Kara Jackson: "fleeing"

2172

Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"

2173

Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"

2174

Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money"

2175

L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"

2176

Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the backyard:"

2177

Jason Reynolds: "Match"

2178

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"

2179

Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"

2180

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"

2181

Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine Speaks"

2182

Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"

2183

Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’t stop, ‘cause we can’t stop.’"

2184

Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"

2185

Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"

2186

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."

2187

James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"

2188

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"

2189

Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"

2190

Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"

2191

Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"

2192

Allison Joseph: "Untethered"

2193

Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"

2194

J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"

2195

Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premature Exits"

2196

Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"

2197

Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"

2198

Krysten Hill: "Nothing"

2199

Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"

2200

Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"

2201

George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"

2202

Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George Floyd"

2203

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"

2204

Marissa Davis: "Singularity"

2205

A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"

2206

April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread"

2207

Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"

2208

Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"

2209

Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!"

2210

Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"

2211

Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"

2212

Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s 'Pez Dispenser, 1984'"

2213

Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"

2214

Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"

2215

Langston Hughes: "My People"

2216

Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"

2217

Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"

2218

Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation Well"

2219

Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning"

2220

Angelo Geter: "Praise"

2221

Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of 'Darkwater'”

2222

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"

2223

Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters"

2224

Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to History"

2225

Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"

2226

Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"

2227

Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature

2228

James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old"

2229

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"

2230

Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"

2231

Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"

2232

Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"

2233

Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"

2234

Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"

2235

William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"

2236

E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

2237

Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"

2238

Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"

2239

Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016)"

2240

Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

2241

Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"

2242

James Oppenheim: "Self"

2243

Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"

2244

Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"

2245

Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"

2246

Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"

2247

Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"

2248

John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"

2249

Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"

2250

Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"

2251

Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"

2252

Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"

2253

Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"

2254

Martha Collins: "Again Later"

2255

Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"

2256

W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"

2257

Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"

2258

Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"

2259

Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"

2260

Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld Lit

2261

Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours

2262

Kiki Petrosino: "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863"

2263

Libbie C. Baer: "When My Soul Findeth Wings"

2264

Claire Wahmanholm: "O"

2265

Zoë Hitzig: "I Looked on My Right Hand and Beheld"

2266

Cedar Sigo: "Struggle Itself"

2267

Luci Tapahonso: "This Morning"

2268

Kristina Martino: "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

2269

Carolina Ebeid: "(disambiguation of miriam)"

2270

Alexander Posey: "My Hermitage"

2271

J.P. Grasser: "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"

2272

Sy Hoahwah: "Church For the Disliked"

2273

Tacey M. Atsitty: "River Sonnet"

2274

Santee Frazier: "Hyperacusis"

2275

Rita Dove: "Testimony: 1968"

2276

Ray Young Bear: "In Pine, Arizona"

2277

"We Two" by H. D.

2278

Helen Hunt Jackson: "Two"

2279

Peter Balakian: "Waiting for a Number"

2280

Patricia Smith: "Now He's an Etching"

2281

Pamela Uschuk: "Green Flame"

2282

Naomi Shihab Nye: "On Doubt and Bad Reviews"

2283

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: "Wonder"

2284

Carl Sandburg: "Monotone"

2285

Effie Waller Smith: "The Rainbow"

2286

Marilyn Kallet: "Beggar"

2287

Marilyn Hacker: "Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!)"

2288

Kimberly Blaeser: "The Way We Love Something Small"

2289

Katie Condon: "Big with Dawn"

2290

Elise Paschen: "Aerial, Wild Pine"

2291

Rainer Maria Rilke: "In April"

2292

Fenton Johnson: "The Miracle"

2293

Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen: "the pomegranate’s decimation"

2294

Aracelis Girmay: "[When I come home they rush to me, the flies]"

2295

Allison Pitinii Davis: "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"

2296

Ted Mathys: "Fool’s Gold"

2297

dg nanouk okpik: "When White Hawks Come"

2298

Louise Bogan: "Words for Departure"

2299

Natalie Diaz: "lake-loop"

2300

Benjamin Garcia: "Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese"

2301

francine j. harris: "Rabbit"

2302

Erin Belieu: "She Returns to the Water"

2303

Aaron Coleman: "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"

2304

Emily Yong: "Gold Mountain"

2305

Marion Strobel: "Spring Morning"

2306

Mahogany L. Browne: "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

2307

Dan Chiasson: "Bloom (II)"

2308

Jenny George: "Migration"

2309

Emily Kendal Frey: "Driving to Work is a Spiritual Experience"

2310

Sherwin Bitsui: "Knives Whistle"

2311

Mary Jo Bang: "A Miniature"

2312

Mary Weston Fordham: "For Who?"

2313

Linda Gregerson: "Interior, 1917"

2314

Philip Matthews: "The Morning Star"

2315

Gabrielle Calvocoressi: "Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion"

2316

Emilia Phillips: "I Tried to Write a Poem Called 'Imposter Syndrome' and Failed"

2317

Justin Phillip Reed: "What’s Left Behind after a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair"

2318

Paul Tran: "Galileo"

2319

Hilda Conkling: "About My Dreams"

2320

Marilyn Chin: "19th Amendment Ragtime Parade"

2321

Carol Moldaw: "Meditation on the Veranda"

2322

Mark Bibbins: "At the End of the Endless Decade"

2323

Danielle Cadena Deulen: "Remix with a Few Lines from Keats"

2324

Victoria Chang: "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"

2325

Tommy Archuleta: "Remedio: Ocotillo (Candlewood)"

2326

Medora C. Addison: "The Days to Come"

2327

Safiya Sinclair: "Sophia The Robot Contemplates Beauty"