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Madeline
A Wedding at Clonmel
Practicing His Signature
Poem Written in My Grandmother’s Dress
Mother Water Ash
Sixteen Years to the Day Another Hurricane Reverses
Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook
Lucia Anna and Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce
Parable
One of us is still alive and will prove it.
Archipelago
Somehow History
Your Body in Transit from Ice to Fire
Ceremony
don’t bring your 6-year-old daughter to a wild horse action, just bring a horse home
VI: Helios (the Sun God) Restrains the (Flawed) Son
The Pickup’s
Poem with Mississippi Honeybees
Windowless Place
The Weathervane
Cross-Quarter Days
Blood Moon
My Father’s Voice
Wreck Name: Unknown No. 3
Sharp
Thomas B. Gay
Don’t Mention It
Cruelty
Strong Gold
Woman Waking Early in Late Fall
My Husband’s Father
Carcass Balance
Lake Chatcolet
Gallowed Be
Of Gut & Gold
Grammar for Seraphs
Field Report on ‘The Lizard Man’
Signals
People Like Us
I Said Nothing
Objects, Permanence
Peaches
Self-Portrait as Yard Boy
The Afterlife
Fauré
Spring Inventory in a Wood Near Lund
Photographer
Lucky Star
Trace
Elegy with Teeth
Ode to My Pectus Excavatum
Irinotecan
Pleuropulmonary Blastoma
June (The rain is falling in veils)
June (I realize now in last week’s poem)
June (We’re waiting for our dog to die)
Ars Poetica
When You Put on Your Binder Smelling Like Lavender
Break Up Poem
‘How a Poem Happens’: Claudia Emerson
Ulcerations
“A Correspondence with Katarzyna Jakubiak”
Movement and Conversion
Whose Story, Whose Skin
My Country, My Cousins
Telephone
Camel Hair Coat
Our Daily Ration
The Week Before Christmas
Pearl Ghazal
Follow the Pen (随笔)
Safe Passage
My Grandparents’ Velvet Painting of ‘The Last Supper’
Linnets
Aftermaths
Category Five
Elegy for Us Both
Packing the Car
Where Your Sister Danced in Other Years We Flee and Shelter
Long Division
In a Land Where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, I Teach You to be an Autotomist
Incarnate
The Moon Is Two Half-Moons Joined Together
To All Whom These Presents Shall Come
Historia
Made of Sugar
Bleeding Among the Briars
We Have To
late spring
A Fairy Tale
And Should We Thank God
Guarding George Wallace
A Bargain for a Boat
Developments
Crib Loss
Courtesy and Horror
Damned If
Preschool
Translation and Transgression
For the Female Folk Singer
Delaware & Raritan. 1850.
Scar 22
Malware
Kubota Garden
How to Swallow the Snake
Winter Stars
Alla Through the Looking Glass
Big Heart, Little Heart
Imaging
Renault / Paris / 1935
My Parents and One Good Line I Wrote at Sixteen
Larry I. Palmer
“A Conversation between Larry I. Palmer and Jeffrey Blount”
A Reading from ‘Scholarship Boy’
Sinkholes
Mariana
After Reading the News this Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem
Now That You're Nowhere
Picnic, with Geese
Stump
Week 25: Rutabaga
What is the layer
Annunciation, without Angel
June
Reading about the Lost Children of Tuam
Inheritance of Fire
The Cantor
Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette
The Kite
As Cheer Passed by a Death Bed
Makeup
My Mother Has Had It with the Tragedies
At Ten
King Vulture
My Brother the Artist, at Seven
from Scholarship Boy, “Where Are You From?” by Larry I. Palmer
Смерть бела
Death is White
Uncommonwealth
Walls: How to Raze a Girl
Canción de Cuna
In Dreams, My Ancestors
Instead of Death I Welcome the Stranger
The Letter
Shadow
First Loss
The Potato Eaters
Between the Trees
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men
Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium
Blue Prints
Nonna Tears Apart a Chicken
Kansas
from In the Distance
Clouds and Fire Engines
Latticework
Single Shot
Making Shore
A Teacher’s Story
Our Father Who Art Somewhere Now, We Hope
There Are Boats
My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted
What Our Son’s Birth Has Taught Us
Postmortem, Postpartum
While hunting mummies at the British Museum
Words in a Dead Girl’s Mouth
Review by Weston Morrow | “How to Dress a Fish by Abigail Chabitnoy”
Haven't I Been Sweet to You
Ferocious Lullaby: Notes on Poetry and Parenting
On 'Two Women' and Process
Fifteen
Distress Cries of a Cottontail Rabbit
from Let's No One Get Hurt
Between Floors: Love and Other Blood-Related Diseases
Angela
Road Salvage
Breast Cancer
End of the Marriage
Nine Martinsville Screens
Delta, Echo, Alpha, Romeo
Operations Suite
Poem in Which My Husband Deploys and Our Baby and I Move Back In with My Parents
We are at a feast which doesn’t love us
A. Real. Uncle. TomTom.
Winter Stars
Mu Puzzle
Apology
As a girl I believed in
How to Jump Fences
Major Arcana: How My Father Got to Reno
Elegy
Poem that Begins on a Staircase
The Seal
Dear Mattie, You're sweet to write to me every day . . .
How we survived: we locked the doors . . .
This is the double bed where she'd been born . . .
When does a childhood end? Mothers . . .
One Singer to Mourn
Review | Paraíso, by Jacob Shores-Argüello,
Review | Let’s No One Get Hurt, by Jon Pineda,
Director's Commentary
Introduction & Table of Contents
“The Arsonists” Jaqueline Goldfinger
Playwright's Notes
Former Marys
Winging It
Boardwalk '62
Birthday
OBIT (Victoria Chang)
OBIT (Voicemail)
A Mirror Never Lies
From The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun
A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office
Sixty-Five
The Changing Table
Liver of Sulfur
Ordinary Pleasure
Blue
Review | The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
Review | Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Until There Is Nothing Else to Tell
Introduction to Claudia Emerson's Poems in Waxwing
Birds
Rat
Cabell First Novelist | Reading Loop Introduction
The Long Walk Home
Confetti Time
Clytemnestra
The Summer Birthdays
Strange Fire
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: I
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: II
Pew
Poem after the Equinox, 2015
Sara Turing’s Archive
States and Instructions for the Universal Machine
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Drone
Review | Fish in Exile, by Vi Khi Nao
Review | Girls Made of Snow and Glass, by Melissa Bashardoust
Covenant (or . . . bagels and butchery)
Mountaineer
Garlic Baby
Hollywood Beach
from The Turner House
At a Stranger’s Funeral
Childhood, Princesshood, Motherhood
The Accident
She Negative
Rec Center
Forest
Crossing Mourning Kill
Girl in Sheep’s Clothing (1989)
A Coward for a Daughter
October Chorus
Consort (Carriage & Miscarriage)
Gỏi Gà
Where the Cancer Center’s New Wing Will Be
Seasons Change Before We’re Ready
Letter 14
So It Goes
Derivation Devotional
To Get Here Today (a piano)
Beyond Grief
Review | The Turner House by Angela Flourney
The Language of the Heart
“Introduction to Remember” a one-act play by Liz Appel
Remember
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016”
Blindly Threading the Needle
We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
A Thankful Scenario
Frontier Arithmetic
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad
Sally Isn’t Doing Well
Staying in Cold Springs
Bramble Lane
Seven Deadly Sins
Last. Child. Last. Child.
All the Grand Deaths
Arrowhead
Since Last We Spoke
Safety Scissors
Fog on the Cher
Review | A Series of Small Maneuvers, by Eliot Treichel
Bright White Blur
Review | You May See a Stranger, by Paula Whyman, Matt Phipps
Review | Grief & Other Animals, by Patty Paine
Somewhere Else in Texas
Dream Catalogue
The Death of the Encyclopedia Salesman
November 11
Acre
The Back Porch
Canción familiar
Family Song
El almacén
The Corner Grocery
Slides of Hiroshima
Inside the Envelope
Considering the Girl, Hilda Dahlgren
Marionette
Fat
Haircut
Jacob’s Limp
Vernissage
[If you count the catalogue of cats]
[A lens of cloud, a sighting around a sheet]
The Homemade Fireworks
How We Take Our Grief
Getting the Baby to Sleep
At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child
Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ]
Human Interest Story
Certainty [Perhaps you can . . . ]
Family Music
Fear of Stones and Air
Confession
Epithalamion
Pre-Op
The Other City
Show of Force
Learned in the Old Ways
Loxley
Pact
Caesura
Birdcalls
The Raft
Planting
Brief Song of the Almost-Lost
Rosalie Ruth Moffett
He Thinks in Squares and Melted Grass
San Antonio Dogs
Sister
The First Necessary Heartbreak
Messages from the Dead
Changeling
Ode on an Asian Dog
A Delicate Balance
The Storm-torn Edge of Heaven
Notes on What Is Always with Us
Frequently Asked Questions: 1
Frequently Asked Questions: 2
Lacuna
Thirteen
Said Agatha
Dear Bose-Einstein Condensate
Hephaestus as Midwife
Tattooed
Department of Aerial Photography
Small Facts
Road to Canaan
Paul’s Daughter
My Pet Baby
My Father as Weather Formation
My Mother as Harp Seal, as Sacristan
Klotilde’s Cake
Sheets of Galaxies
Thrown Rod, Cruel Stars
Epcot Center, August ’88
Stoney Creek
Cast Net
Company Town
Dream of the Morning Before It Split Open
Of Opposites
Review | A Different Sun, by Elaine Neal Orr, and River of Dust, by Virginia Pye
Review | No One Is Here Except All of Us, by Ramona Ausubel
Camelot, after Fifty Years: Remembering Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
from This World We Know
Kelly Younger, This World We Know Introduction
Thomas B. Gay
July at Rose Blumkin
In The Show We’ve Been Watching The Unloved Beautiful
Fight or Flight
The Lost Boys
Ma the Movie Star
[After we found the sack of tchotchkes in the garage]
New Civilian
The Cow
In February
Little Invocation
La Estrella
Memory
ხსოვნა
Season
On the Difficulty of Pumping High-Octane Gasoline into a ’39 Buick Century without Spilling a Drop
The Tree of Forgetting
May 13th, 2012
Story Problem
[Some days one day every day I am over like the]
[Once the boss fired a twin the twin was torn in]
February Angst
Dear Claudia—
Lucy,
Lucy wraps salmon
Treading
Cleveland
Tall Enough
Patience
Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito
Elegy with Her Red-Tipped Fingers
Hund’s Rule
49 Answers to 50 Questions
Piano Lessons II
The Plains
hines ward jr. lunches at the blue house 2006
My Father’s Language
Egrets
Signs and Wonders
Long Spoons
Coin-Operated Rattle Without a Snake
Brief Father,
Peeling
Mulatto Sermon
Insomniac
Wife
Postcard of Peter Lorre Embracing Lotte Lenya, 1929
Welcome to Paradise
Centaur
Communication
Hospital Visit
Natural Distances
As A Writer, All Bets Were Off: A Eulogy for Eleanor Ross Taylor
A Christmas Story
The Wynona Poems
A Scene Not Made
Bend as Would a God
So Look Up Already
RRX
Review | The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson
The Other Hemisphere
Review | Atlas Hour, by Carol Ann Davis
Death Panel
Panther Stalks Hinds County
The Replacement Wife
The Raccoon
Resuscitation
The Minor Characters As They Appear, Amy Beeder
Bird Call
Review | In the Time of the Girls, by Anne Germanacos
Driving the Peugeot
An Interview with Sarah Vap
Review | Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by Natasha Trethewey
from Unseen Character, David Rob
from Unseen Character
from Unseen Character
from Unseen Character
from Unseen Character
A Reading by Jesmyn Ward
On Familiar Terms
Expecting
from Mathilda Savitch
La Moustache
Why I Am Not a Funny Poet: An Elegy
Dear P., XXII
Again
The Quotations of Bone
Butter
Three Generations
The Dressmaker’s Daughter
Brochure for Exile
severe
Counting Things
Allen Whicher's Love Tale
First Novelist Reading Loop, Blackbird
A Reading by Victor Lodato, Blackbird
Nursing Art, Julie Hensley
Watershed
Better to Lose an Eye
Break
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 8
The Lions
In My Father’s Father’s Airstream Trailer
Admissions
Confusion
Spring Intervention
Ochre ii
Ochre xii
Ochre xviii
Ochre xx
Ochre xxii
Ochre xxiii
Ochre xxiv
Ochre xxv
Review of Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
Introducing Richard Carlyon’s Postcards from Aix, Nancy Rufty Schandelmeier, Blackbird v9n2
What’s Buried in the Ground
from Finding My Father
From Grace to Goshen
For the Record
Not Whiskey
Secure the Shadow
History Filled In
When What Is Lost Is Said
Meditation at Main Brook
Letter from Gozo
A Distance
A Steady Surprise of Stars
Anniversary
Dust
This Is the Brain, W.Todd Kaneko
Moving Day
Delivered
House
The Withholding
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Family Vacation
6 Standish Court
Scale Practice
All Souls Crossing
The Electrician’s Mate, 1954
Bringing in the May, 1941
Deaf Spots
The Name of Birds, Sara Quinn Rivara
January
Cucuy
Powwow Ghazal
Mother’s Home Ritual for Quenching Fires
The Apple Pipe
Willingly
Old Country
Beirut
Linnets
Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots, Aliscon Pelegrin
Imogen Cunningham’s “My Father At Sixty”
Home Ownership and Self Defense
Dark Ages
Perennial
House
Review of Incident at the edge of Bayonet Woods by Paula Bohince
Oskar's Cars
Review of Salvinia Molesta by Victoria Chang
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
We're at a Party
I Am My Rooster
La Bufera: Our Last Trip to Sicily
Elegy with a Chinese Checkerboard
Dear P. XXI
Tales from the Dark Hotel
Elegy: I Pass by the Erotic Bakery
He Has Given His Face to the Waters of the Lake
The Mirror's Lake Is Forever
Leda at Work in the World
Transitions for Dancers When Dance Is No Longer an Option
The Upstairs Notebook
Treatise on Travel
Domestic Economics
Spencerian Hand
Inheritance
Meaning To Milk
Reviews of Making a Map of the River, by Thorpe Moeckel and In the Truth Room by Dana Roeser
Review of Undiscovered Country, by Lin Enger
A Reading by Claudia Emerson
Dear Sis
Hey Bubba
The Way of the Blue-Winged Wangdoodle
Stand | Two Excerpts
Marcus I: Tell me what happened to her
Fried Chicken
Mistress (1)
Mistress (2): Teeter-Totter
Vietnam
Self-portrait as a butter-churner
Children
A cradle of warmed oats for the chickens on the Epiphany
Clear and dark gills of mushrooms
Spring in Phoenix: An answer to the vanishing God
A snuggery, evolved
How to Lure a Lizard into a Bird Feeder
Review of Moon Road by Ron Smith
Review of Eden in the Rearview Mirror by Susan Elbe
Review of Slantwise by Betty Adcock
Two Poets to Watch
Arts and Science, Act Two
Thanksgiving
Tobacco Wedding
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part One
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part Two
The Lions
Fragment 26 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
When to Stop
Audio: Oral
Peter Taylor and “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court,” Mary Flinn
A Conversation with Mary Gordon
A Conversation with Mary Gordon
Peter Taylor and the Drama of Storytelling
The Boy Who Walked to Distant Lands
Going Away Shoes
Amen to the Ax
Pima Road Notebook (I)
Pima Road Notebook (II)
Say You Waved: A Dream Song Cycle
Winter Stars
The Old House With Thee
Elegy in Late Spring
Heaven
The Present
Advice to my Grandson
From the Calderstones
Review of Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig by Jane Gentry
Southbound
Introduction: Three Sopranos, Susan S. Williams & Mary Lee Allen
Janet Peery, A Conversation with Janet Peery
Janet Peery, A Conversation With Janet Peery
A Distant Death
Until We Go To Sleep
In England, the Formidible Ms X Takes Directions from Some Guy Named Z
The Speaking Book
Nebraska
Arriving Gdansk Harbor, 2000: The Women We Have Left
June 1910, Susquehanna Valley
J’ai fait la magique étude du bonheur
Escape from the Chengsin Mission
Interrogation
From Omphalos
prayer that goes: dear god
Seven Disappointments (2)
Review: Dummy Fire
Review: Sufficient Grace
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Scratchings, Anne Germanacos
Fine Stationery
Caitlin Horrocks, It Looks Like This
The Guest
Exodus
Studies from Life
Sweet Transmigrations
Tolberton County, 1923
With a Leaf in Her Fist
The Life of the Party
An Uncertain Sky Makes Her Wary of Stillness
Children Born After the War
Granite City
Love Light (Shadenfreude)
Seersucker
A Conversation With Ron Slate, Audio Transcription
Homecoming
Abuelita
News from Home
Reading Andrew Marvell
She Falls Asleep in Strange Places
Paper
Everything Is an Instrument
Breast-Feeding Across America
Night Bath, Sagittarius
Orabelle’s Wheelbarrow, Characters and Setting
Orabelle’s Wheelbarrow, Act One
Orabelle's Wheelbarrow
Orabelle’s Wheelbarrow, Act Two
When All the Fish Are Gone
How Beautiful Thy Feet With Shoes
Good Samaritan Points
Mother
Roulade
American Landscape Painting
My Father and the Quail
Usually My Dreams Mean Nothing
Girdling
Night Crabbing
National Poetry Month
In the Yeats Class, Summer Term
After Bad News
From Bhutan, Scene One
From Bhutan
From Bhutan, Scene Three
From Bhutan, Scene Two
Get Up
Two Lives
Kiss
The Boomers Take the Field
Will We?
How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab
Backwards
Sky Treasure
Review | Ursula, Under, by Ingrid Hill
Jake Adam York, Blackbird
Brothers
The True Daughter
My Brother in the Basement
A Ford in a River
Things That Cannot Be Compared (Dissonance I)
Dragon Boat Festival
Seven-Star Bird
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God
Cinnamon Dreams
My Father and the Astros
Review | Birthmark, by Jon Pineda
Review | The Room Where I Was Born, by Brian Teare
Space Interlude
Pivot Points
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Richard McCann, February 16, 2005
Visitation
Dried Preparation of the Hand
Favors
The Family, One Week Old
She's Back
Joyride
Dangerous Playgrounds
The Old King
The Neck's What Keeps Heart and Head Together
Winter's Night from Salt
Buggy Ride from Salt
The Book of Crying Kanglings
The Book of Crying Kanglings
After Science
Unfinished Landscape with a Dog
Inside the Room
Just Say Goodbye to Mother
Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent
Fiona, from Late Bloomer
The Kidnapping
Book of the Jaspers
Book of the Jaspers
Reading Group Discussion Guide
Necromancing
The Stigmata Rather than a Punch on the Nose
Blackbird Feature, Susan Garrett, Review | Rescuing Patty Hearst, by Virginia Holman
Blackbird Feature, Virginia Holman, from Rescuing Patty Hearst
Springerle
Legerdemain
Luna Moth
Book of the Jewel Worm
Book of the Jewel Worm
Firewood
Letter from the Ground Floor
Drawing Lesson: Outline and Edge
The Earth is not Quiet
The Hayfield Chandelier
To One Lingering in the Trees
Out to Buy Milk
After Richmond Burned
Pineal
This is the Age of Beautiful Death
The Potatoes, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
Wound, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
The Perils of Censorship, R. T. Smith
Clockwork Prayer: Epilogue