Dannie Abse: The Yellow Bird
Elizabeth Alexander: Ars Poetica #10: Crossing Over
John Ashbery: Coma Berenices • Where Shall I Wander • From China to Peru • The Bled Weasel • Well-Lit Places • Capital O • New Concerns • Novelty Love Trot
Michael Dennis Browne: Music and the Rain • Night Thought • Things I Can't Tell You • Arda Collins: Snow on the Apples • Spring
Charles Dickens: Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison
Jean Follain: Welcome • Crossroads • Meal Hour • Accidents • The Admiralty • Friendship • The Child with the Drum • Animals • The Battle Cry • The Bird Stuffer • The Gardens • The Balance of the Earth • Men • The Dagger • Scales • The Bread • The Day-Laborers • Domestic Life • Words • The Friends • Absence • Shores • The Atlas • Red Ice • Contours • The Lottery • The Centuries • The Red Apple • Afterward • Dead Season • At Table • The Farewells • The Cry • The Art of War • Holding a Globe • Shoelace Re-Tied • The Door • The Wheel • The Incendiaries • Confronting the Animal • Power of Things • Dog Day • Sights • The Open Sheds on the Plain • Every Life • Always • The Bully's Landscape • Hope • The Rag • Eagles Passing • Clothing • The Ankle-Boot • Gloves • Under the Stars • The Song • Days • Friends • Spectacle • The Same City • (Translated from the French by W.S. Merwin)
Leonard Gontarek: Arrangement • Blue On Her Hands
Samuel Grolmes (Translator): Kazuko Shiraishi, "Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty," translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura
Donald Hall: The Funeral Party: On the Death of Jane Kenyon
Michael McClure: Suite for John Ashbery: Imitation of, and Ode For, John Ashbery • Feel of a Red-Flecked and Wrinkled Apple • Burning in Barrels • Sunset Gift • From the Stone • The Harp's Heart: One • The Harp's Heart: Two
James McConkey: In the Studio: The Telescope in the Parlor
W.S. Merwin (Translator): Jean Follain, fifty-nine poems, translated from the French by W.S. Merwin
Lucia Perillo: Fear of the Marketplace
Minnie Bruce Pratt: The Unemployment Office: Dismissed by the Machine • Playing the Guitar Underground • Opening the Mail • Retirement
Liam Rector: Remembering Jane Kenyon
Martha Ronk: "So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened." • "It is only a question of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it" • "This shows that among the innumerable things left out" • "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall" • "As if light had power to bring what was dreaded into the zone" • "From the evidence ruin seems inevitable" • "In exactly the same way"
Kazuko Shiraishi: Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty (Translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
Yumiko Tsumuara (Translator): Kazuko Shiraishi, "Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty," translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura
Derek Walcott: from The Prodigal: 1 • from The Prodigal: 2
Elizabeth Williams: The Physics of Memory
Elizabeth Alexander: Ars Poetica #10: Crossing Over
John Ashbery: Coma Berenices • Where Shall I Wander • From China to Peru • The Bled Weasel • Well-Lit Places • Capital O • New Concerns • Novelty Love Trot
Michael Dennis Browne: Music and the Rain • Night Thought • Things I Can't Tell You • Arda Collins: Snow on the Apples • Spring
Charles Dickens: Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison
Jean Follain: Welcome • Crossroads • Meal Hour • Accidents • The Admiralty • Friendship • The Child with the Drum • Animals • The Battle Cry • The Bird Stuffer • The Gardens • The Balance of the Earth • Men • The Dagger • Scales • The Bread • The Day-Laborers • Domestic Life • Words • The Friends • Absence • Shores • The Atlas • Red Ice • Contours • The Lottery • The Centuries • The Red Apple • Afterward • Dead Season • At Table • The Farewells • The Cry • The Art of War • Holding a Globe • Shoelace Re-Tied • The Door • The Wheel • The Incendiaries • Confronting the Animal • Power of Things • Dog Day • Sights • The Open Sheds on the Plain • Every Life • Always • The Bully's Landscape • Hope • The Rag • Eagles Passing • Clothing • The Ankle-Boot • Gloves • Under the Stars • The Song • Days • Friends • Spectacle • The Same City • (Translated from the French by W.S. Merwin)
Leonard Gontarek: Arrangement • Blue On Her Hands
Samuel Grolmes (Translator): Kazuko Shiraishi, "Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty," translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura
Donald Hall: The Funeral Party: On the Death of Jane Kenyon
Michael McClure: Suite for John Ashbery: Imitation of, and Ode For, John Ashbery • Feel of a Red-Flecked and Wrinkled Apple • Burning in Barrels • Sunset Gift • From the Stone • The Harp's Heart: One • The Harp's Heart: Two
James McConkey: In the Studio: The Telescope in the Parlor
W.S. Merwin (Translator): Jean Follain, fifty-nine poems, translated from the French by W.S. Merwin
Lucia Perillo: Fear of the Marketplace
Minnie Bruce Pratt: The Unemployment Office: Dismissed by the Machine • Playing the Guitar Underground • Opening the Mail • Retirement
Liam Rector: Remembering Jane Kenyon
Martha Ronk: "So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened." • "It is only a question of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it" • "This shows that among the innumerable things left out" • "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall" • "As if light had power to bring what was dreaded into the zone" • "From the evidence ruin seems inevitable" • "In exactly the same way"
Kazuko Shiraishi: Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty (Translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
Yumiko Tsumuara (Translator): Kazuko Shiraishi, "Even a Phantom Gets Thirsty," translated from the Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura
Derek Walcott: from The Prodigal: 1 • from The Prodigal: 2
Elizabeth Williams: The Physics of Memory
