Poem

Dream House

  • Ariana Reines

My Ambition, the Rival

  • Dai George

I Am Vocal and the Salt

  • Alice Notley

Lunch Break with Ted Berrigan and Neighbor’s House on Fire

  • Lynn Emanuel

2013 Poetry Contest Winner: Scott Coffel

  • Linda Gregerson
  • Scott Coffel

Three Stephanies

  • Stephanie Burt

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Autumn Wind

An ancient autumn poem from the Tang Dynasty. 

  • Li Bai

Conclusion

  • Rae Armantrout

Sunset

you need to come up with a plan of what to do when you encounter an active shooter situation. 

  • Ben Fama

Amendment

  • Brian Foley

Poet’s Sampler: Julie Kantor

Inversive and torquing through pronoun and referent, Kantor’s poetry is faster in its lineation, more loyal and astringently ethical, more condensed and driving than any other you’re likely to find.

  • Julie Kantor
  • Josh Bell

Flo

  • Rae Armantrout

Halfway/Stasis

  • Jane Lewty

Bird, Singing

  • Lucie Brock-Broido

Why Sorrow Is Important

  • Jordan Windholz

Here in the Birthplace of Cilantro

  • Jeff Encke

Aubade

  • Joanna Klink

Poet’s Sampler: Jessica Laser

Introduced by Mark Levine

  • Mark Levine
  • Jessica Laser

Aubade

  • Joanna Klink

KY

  • Jennifer Kronovet

The End of the Ceasefire (The End of the Objectivist School?)

  • Kirill Medvedev

Celebrity Dream Poems

  • Noah Falck

Mound

  • Christopher Phelps

From the Keep

  • Cherry Pickman
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