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Vol. 54 No. 5 - Sept/Oct 2025

Vol. 54 No. 5 - Sept/Oct 2025

$ 7.00


A.A. Agnon: It is 1890 again • from a standing train in spring • fourteen lines from the eye of Mariupol, 2022 • north quadrant at solstice

Robin Becker: Late Apology • The Sleeper • Painting Birds • The Pencil Poem

John Berryman: (Five Dream Songs): Long Distance • [A lady lay in pain] • [Abrupt & brainy] • [Lies grew a way of living] • How We Almost All Try to Keep Alive

Shane McCrae: The Performance Artifice of John Berryman's Dream Songs

Gabrielle Calvocoressi: (from Lent Cisterns)

Fall Away • After the Party • From Saint Mary's • Hawk • Wind in the Ear • "What. Already?" • Good Friday • "Write the Best Thing That's Happened Today" • Every Day But Sunday

Michael Dumanis: The Truth • Aubade

Henry Israeli: Breathe

Elizabeth Jacobson: Blue Was My Color for the Feminine: An Interview with Didi Jackson

Didi Jackson: Youth, No. 3 • Adulthood, No. 8, in conversation with Hilma af Klint's use of W • Void • Monster

Kima Jones: Dear Yusef

John Kinsella: Symmetry (of pith)

Larry Levis: Clear Days • Villanelle & Lullaby • Delusional Tree, Delusional Spider

The Matrix: A Collective (Twenty Poems)

Felice Belle: semantics

Nicole Callihan: I Know How This Must Look

Brenda Cárdenas: Deportation

Kai Coggin: Raccoon

Jane Creighton: Marigolds

Laura Cronk: I Can't Right Now

Iris Jamahl Dunkle: [My body is something I don't know yet how to put on]

Anel I. Flores: Nineteen Seventy-Nine

Janet Jennerjohn: The Moment Before

KP Kaszubowski: On island time

Ruth Ellen Kocher: Nineteen Sixty-Five

Michele Kotler: Raise Your Hand If You Want to Be More Generous

Amy Lemmon: Autumnal Hallelujah

Michelle Otere: Birthright

Catherine Esposito Prescott: What to Say When a Mom Asks If His Diet Caused It

Bethany Price: Dancefloor

Robin Reagler: What Hovers Is the Sky

Anna V. Q. Ross: All my poems used to end in sky

Marina Hope Wilson: A History

Marion Wrenn: Minus Polyglottos, Birds of America

Askold Melnyczuk: Questions I Never Asked My Father

Mirabai: Mira in the Monsoon Season • Things Work Out for Mira

            (Translated from the Braj Bhasa by Chloe Martinez)

Susan Mitchell: The Calling • Hurakan

Rita Mookerjee: Still Life with a Bottle of Moët at the Château de Fontainebleau

D. Nurkse:  White Masks • A Single Night • A Fingerprint Speaks

Catherine Pond: Second Body

Alicia Jo Rabins: Fence Work • In Geologic Time, A Rock Is an Event • My Sister Ecclesiastes • Dear This Very Moment,

Sherod Santos: (Three Meditations): Poets: A Fantasy • Leonardo's Musical Clock • The Life of the Mind