National Poetry Month 2011

Spiritual Laws

(from Conversations over Stolen Food)

What Paths He Took

for Jonathan Eugene Skanda Brilliant, 1984–2011

New Translation

The Nut

(1921, and 1920 in development)

Poetry Machines

from Notes from Irrelevance

We are birds in migration

Translated from the Russian by Stephanie Sandler

Selections from The Other Poems

(Afterward) One Corner More/ Notes on a Letter to the Singer Abby Lincoln from Her Lover, Abraham Lincoln

Biography of Sleep

Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

The Cloud Corporation, Part 2

An Interview 

The Perspective Fairy

Palling Around

The Cloud Corporation, Part 1

An Interview

Saint Days

Majestic Interlude

A Storm

At Least

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