Poetry

52 poems

For Jamaica, for Ru — Hala Alyan

placetraveldisplacement

A Love Letter to My Panic — Hala Alyan

loveillnessidentity

New Year — Hala Alyan

loveidentityhumor

Post-Election Morning — Hala Alyan

politicsimmigrationidentity

Would You Believe It? — Elvira Basevich

agingaddictionmemory

Birthday — Elvira Basevich

identityfamilyreligion

The Way I Scream — Elvira Basevich

bodyloveviolence

Death at the Lakeshore — Roy Bentley

mortalityhumor

Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One — Linda Bierds

historyartlanguage

Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two — Linda Bierds

historyartplace

Rapunzel, with Contrast — Michelle Boisseau

illnessbodymyth

Sleeping Puppy and Hedgehog: Rembrandt and Dürer — Michelle Boisseau

artanimals

Swooping through Broken Windows — Michelle Boisseau

workclassmemory

OBIT (Hope) — Victoria Chang

illnessgriefmortality

OBIT (Victoria Chang) — Victoria Chang

grieffamilyidentity

OBIT (Voicemail) — Victoria Chang

grieffamilylanguage

Black Holes Collide — Katie Chaple

sciencelove

Divination — Katie Chaple

folklorespiritualityhumor

In Trevi, One Town Over from Spoleto on the Train — Katie Chaple

travelplacememory

Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us — Christopher Citro

ecologylovehumor

Negar Emrani — Negar Emrani

Martial—Epigrams — Tyler Goldman

translationhumorhistory

From The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun — Andrew Grace

familyrural-lifeviolence

Poem at Altitude — Paul Guest

travellanguage

Crocus — Cynthia Hogue

naturememory

Regarding Others’ Pain — Cynthia Hogue

racepoliticshistory

Biophilia — Catherine MacDonald

naturebodyillness

Bird Study — Catherine MacDonald

naturehistoryaging

Elegy with Barred Owl — Catherine MacDonald

griefillnessnature

Catherine MacDonald — Catherine MacDonald

natureillnessgrief

A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office — Catherine MacDonald

illnessfamilyart

Sentinel Species — Catherine MacDonald

natureanimals

there are jawless fish — Janice Majewski

bodydesire

sometimes kicked rocks don’t land where — Janice Majewski

marriagehomebody

What Yields — Kwoya Fagin Maples

racehistorybody

Jet Lag — Patricia Colleen Murphy

memorygrieftravel

Sixty-Five — Dan O’Brien

agingchildhoodfamily

Sixty-Nine — Dan O’Brien

loveagingillness

Sixty-One — Dan O’Brien

lovememorytravel

The Changing Table — Iain Haley Pollock

familychildhoodhumor

Liver of Sulfur — Iain Haley Pollock

familyillnesslove

The Braided Stream — Nancy Reddy

mortalitygriefhistory

Landscape with Deer, Mites, and Aircraft — Nancy Reddy

naturescience

Ordinary Pleasure — Nancy Reddy

familychildhoodviolence

Roggebaai.jpeg — Henk Rossouw

racehistoryplace

Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors — Z.G. Tomaszewski

placesolitudememory

Blue — Chioma Urama

familyidentityrace

poli— — Chioma Urama

raceviolenceart

Inside excitement is a strand of terror — Paige Webb

lovedesirebody

Breton in Mexico — Gail Wronsky

arthistorylove

Elegy for Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan — Gail Wronsky

griefartlove

Serhiy Zhadan — Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Alan Zhukovski