Poem

So Tender Beauty

  • Sarah Sarai

Passage

  • Alex Dimitrov

The Gift Shop

  • Cate Peebles

ROTC Kills

  • John Koethe

America! America!

  • Ricardo Maldonado

Song for Sonoma

  • Tess Taylor

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From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Paradox

  • Brian Blanchfield

If Hounds

  • Genevieve Burger-Weiser

Safe House

  • Solmaz Sharif

Reverse: A Lynching

Return the tree, the moon, the naked man / Hanging from the indifferent branch

  • Ansel Elkins

Point

  • Adam Roberts

Self Suck

  • Angelo Nikolopoulos

Poet’s Sampler: Ann Marie Thornburg

Owen Barfield wrote of the “felt change of consciousness” that occurs when a reader encounters a true poem. I read poems every day longing to experience that, and when I read Ann Marie Thornburg’s, I do.

  • Ann Marie Thornburg
  • Laura Kasischke

Lollipop

  • Daniel Coudriet

Breath

  • Daniel Coudriet

By Some Miracle a Year Lousy With Meteors

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King
  • Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Frog and Toe

  • Caitlin Dube

Hate Mail

  • Carol Muske-Dukes

High Church

  • Timothy Liu

His Legacy

  • Timothy Liu

It Was a Rat That Carried Your Heart to the Sea

  • Kyle McCord

The Soul

  • Tracy K. Smith

Poet’s Sampler: Mark Strand

Over a long and distinguished career, with honors that include a Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. Poet Laureateship, Mark Strand has compiled a body of poems that display a remarkable unity of vision and variety of content.

  • Mark Strand
  • Nicholas Christopher

Hearing

  • Joshua Trotter
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