Poem

Topics for Amplification

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer

Objects

  • Martha Ronk

Fragment 941: Aphrodite of Kypros

—Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE)

  • Reginald Gibbons

Dies Irae

  • L.S. Asekoff

I Would Remain by Night with You

  • Joanna Klink

Sunday balustrade

translated from the German by J.D. Schneider

  • Ron Winkler

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Money Shot

  • Rae Armantrout

Win

  • Rae Armantrout

Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave

  • Rob Schlegel

Poet’s Sampler: Brandon Shimoda

  • Brandon Shimoda
  • Karen Volkman

Now There Are Two Poems in Which We Are Kissing

  • Rebecca Bridge

Sarah Arvio

Winner of the eleventh annual Boston Review poetry contest, introduced by John Koethe

  • Sarah Arvio
  • John Koethe

A wellworn inclined ramp for launching vessels, or, body integrity identity disorder.

  • Thomas Hummel

Sea Horse

  • Aleš Šteger
  • Brian Henry

Ruined Interior

  • Suzanne Buffam

Home, Away

  • Margaret Monaghan

Pig’s Heaven Inn

  • Arthur Sze

in the dark I stare through your cream gauze drape and hope for your shape to pass

  • Tom Bourguignon

Chernobyl

  • Emily Fragos

Poet’s Sampler: Patrick Moran

Introduced by D.A. Powell

  • Patrick Moran
  • D. A. Powell

SPIT AND IMAGE

New poetry from Ashley Capps.

  • Ashley Capps

Poet’s Sampler: Ashley Capps

  • Ashley Capps
  • Graham Foust

First Counter-clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip

  • John Kinsella

Acorn Duly Crushed

  • Heather Christle
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