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Of Beauty and Suffering: Greece, 1969–1970
Portrait of Louisa Cobb Thompson by an Unidentified Chinese Artist
Somehow History
For the Last Man on Portsmouth Island
An Introduction to Translations of the ‘Dionysiaca’
Hwang Jini
Kim Wooncho
On Translation
Passing by an Old Fortress
Passing by an Old Fortress
A Small Cypress Boat
A Small Cypress Boat
The Circus
The Dragon
Manuscript Epigraphs
The Fire
Selections from ‘The Magic Life’
The Junebugs
The Law
The Mustache
The Tuba
The Weathervane
Emily Dickinson’s Maid Remembers
American Four Square
A Certain Epicharis
Wreck Name: Unknown No. 3
Endnotes for ‘The Most Ingenious Artist: An Internet Adventure from the COVID Lockdown’
The Most Ingenious Artist: An Internet Adventure from the COVID Lockdown
Review by Rebecca Poynor | “Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens” by Corey Van Landingham
The Quietest Voice in the Room: On Robert Hayden
Artificial Man
Rob Barnard and Julian Stair: Inner Lives/Cinerary Jars
The Junebugs
Artificial Bodies Reading Loop
“Through the Window of Someone Like Me”
Steve Scafidi Reading Loop
Confessional
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign
Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies
Smithsonian
The Forever Queen: Good-bye to All That
“R.U.R. Covers”
R.U.R.: “Inventing Roboti”
Josef Čapek
Karel Čapek
R.U.R. Introduction & Table of Contents
“1922 Cast List”
R.U.R. Producer’s Note
R.U.R. “Translator’s Introduction
“Variant Editions of R.U.R. in Translation”
R.U.R. In the New York Theaters
R.U.R. Russians at Large
Living History
“A Correspondence with Katarzyna Jakubiak”
Whose Story, Whose Skin
The Death of Osip Mandelstam
Providence and Prophesy
Tower of Enchantment
Tomaž Šalamun
Yellow Rug, Let’s Go!
Election Day in Florida
Contributor Name
Contributor Name
Contributor Name
“A White Man’s Party: Selections from The Crisis at the Century Mark”
The Lynching Industry
“It Is to Laugh” from The Crisis
“The Klu Klux Menace” from The Crisis
[When the SUFFRAGE law]
“NAACP [Tulsa Riots]” from The Crisis
“The Vote [. . . a white man's party]” from The Crisis
Historia
Made of Sugar
Imperium: A Bedtime Story
The Oxford English Dictionary
“Sewing Bird” [transcription, 2007 manuscript] by Claudia Emerson
Sewing Bird
Bring Back the Dead
Corrado Govoni
Plank
Feathers
Sewing Bird: A Collaboration
“A Reading by Kiki Petrosino from ‘White Blood’”
Delaware & Raritan. 1850.
A Note on ‘Delaware & Raritan. 1850.’
Villanelle (avec Evel Knievel)
Alla Through the Looking Glass
Adelma (Harrisville, N.H.)
Renault / Paris / 1935
Nima Yushij
‘The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale&38217;
“Mountain Lake Triptych Introduction”
My Parents and One Good Line I Wrote at Sixteen
After Reading the News this Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem
The Bookmobile Lady: Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Still Life with Gold
Reading about the Lost Children of Tuam
Collection & Identification
Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette
‘Adoration of the Magi,’ ca. 1475
Looking for Virginia Dare
1918 Suite Coda: That Night Another Change
from The House of Adventure
Leviathan: A Charnel Ship
“Over the Canteen in France” from Two Colored Women in the AEF by Addie W. Hunton & Kathryn M. Johnson
Addie W. Hunton
Kathryn M. Johnson
Pandemic Slide Show
“The Great ‘Movie Jag,’” Photoplay
“If You Must Smoke While Wearing Your Influenza Mask, Popular Science”
Not Before but After Us
An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe
En Plein Air
In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On
Pteridomaniac
Trespass
Blue Prints
1918 Suite “Enough of Us Still and Brave Enough” 1918 Suite
from ‘A Scavenger in France: Being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917–1919’
Voices of 1918 Program Notes
Voices of 1918 by Kenneth Langer & Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Best and Only Whore of Cwm Hyfryd
A Gun to the Heart of the City
Deciduous Ode
Bones in the Soil
The Vanishing
Se Non è Vero, è Molto Ben Trovato
1912: Hush Harbor
Review by Matthew Phipps | “In the Distance by Hernan Diaz”
1918 Suite “What Was Not His to Keep”
1918 Suite | from “Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad” by Ethel Anderson
1918 Suite | from One of Ours by Willa Cather
from “Some Reflections: Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza that Afflicted Our City”
1918 Suite | Richmond Planet, “Much Trouble Here”
1918 Suite | Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Director Levy is Taken to Task by Flannagan”
1918 Suite | Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Grippe Crisis is Reached; Should Ebb From Now On”
Mobilization, 1914
Ghost Confederacy
Blood
from Kyrie
Once the world had had its fill of war . . .
One Singer to Mourn
“Everywhere in the Kingdom” 1918 Suite
“A Masked Parade” 1918 Suite Time Capsule
His First Case: from Chapter XVIII—When the Epidemic Struck the Village
"Gerzat: Chapter XII—The Spanish Influenza"
After Incus
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two
Martial—Epigrams
Regarding Others’ Pain
Bird Study
What Yields
The Braided Stream
Roggebaai.jpeg
Breton in Mexico
Review | Cherokee Road Kill by Celia Bland
1917 Suite | “A Month, a Year, a Term of Liberty”
1917 Suite | “Calling the Bluff”
1917 Suite | “Mrs. Virginia Bovee’s Affidavit”
1917 Suite | “Excerpts from Mrs. Brannan’s Affidavit”
1917 Suite | “Excerpt of a Letter from Lucy Burns”
1917 Suite | “Excerpts of Lucy Burns’s Paper Scraps”
1917 Suite | “From this Wound, this Ugly Knowledge”
1917 Suite | “The March of the Women”
1917 Suite | “Miss Flanagan in ‘Model Prison’”
1917 Suite | “House Moves for Woman Suffrage”
1917 Suite | Silent Sentinels and the Night of Terror
1917 Suite | Voices from Occoquan: Paper Scraps and Affidavits
1917 Suite | “The President and the Pickets”
1917 Suite | Preface to Jailed for Freedom
1917 Suite | “Suffrage and Sedition”
1917 Suite | “Court Orders Writ to Free 28 Suffs”
1917 Suite | “From the Picket Line to Jail”
1917 Suite | “Administrative Terrorism”
1917 Suite | “Suffragists in Virginia History”
A Bird in the Hand
Ida's Boots
Introducing Taylor’s “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court”
That Century
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy
In 1967
Poem for the Speakeasy
Mess Hall
Audrey Munson, The American Venus, Reimagines Her Life as Still Life
Dmitri In The Year Of The October Revolution, 1917
The Twilight of Truth?
“VMFA Artist Talk: LeRoy Henderson,” This Is My Proof
“Artist Profile: LeRoy Henderson," This Is My Proof
LeRoy Henderson
“This Is My Proof,” Introduction & Table of Contents, LeRoy Henderson
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
“A Reading by Colson Whitehead”
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
The Accident
Oldest Squirrel Monkey in Captivity
Brief Sketch from There to Here
Consort (Carriage & Miscarriage)
Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt
Review | I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
from The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Athwominie
Auction of the Bonded
Curving of the Corn
Frontier Arithmetic
Lord and Chariot
Writing an Elegy
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
The Invalid Master and His Slave Take a Train from Macon to Savannah, 1848
Noyes Academy, the Nation’s First Coeducational Integrated School, Canaan, New Hampshire, 1835
A foolish moon in a foolish sky
St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad,Petersburg
River Bytham
Extinction Event: The Book of Revelation, as Interpreted by Link Wray
Sinatra: The Concert at Pompeii, 1991
Arrowhead
Bluebeard’s Closet
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness, Introduction and Table of Contents
Sarah Eckhardt
Gordon Parks
“Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection,” Gordon Parks
“Introduction to Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection,” Gordon Parks | Works from VMFA's Collection | Gordon Parks
Larry Levis
November 11
Slides of Hiroshima
The Little Lion, Artistic Director’s Notes by Tom Width
The Little Lion, Introduction
The Little Lion, Act One
The Little Lion, Act Two
The Little Lion, Novelist’s Notes by Nancy Wright Beasley
Ink
The Missouri Compromise
Yellowhammer
Augusta
Hush
Agca
Six Explanations for Migraine
Bird Ephemera
Lacuna
A Partial Ledger: Dr. C.D. Bennett
Department of Aerial Photography
In a Brief, Animated World: The Marriage of Anne of Denmark to James of Scotland, 1589
My Father as Weather Formation
My Mother as Harp Seal, as Sacristan
“A Conversation with Richard Carlyon, Part 1”
“A Conversation with Richard Carlyon, Part 2”
Introduction: A Conversation with Richard Carlyon
Videographer’s Notes
1914 Women in Film Suite, Acknowledgments
Mabel’s Blunder
Daisy Doodad’s Dial
The Hazards of Helen
1914 Women in Film Suite Introduction
from No One is Here Except All of Us
His long & glowing tail
And Here It Seems the Author Died
Hypothesis: An Interview
The Death of Roland Barthes
Review | Signaletics, by Emilia Phillips
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.
Robert Allerton Parker
Charles Sheeler
Paul Strand
Manhatta Suite Introduction
“Manhatta,” Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
The Art of the Camera: An Experimental ‘Movie’
“A Conversation with Ramona Ausubel”
Ma the Movie Star
Snow Down in Hong Kong
A Moral Color
The Necessary Angel
Ghost Confederacy
A Singing in the Rocks
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
Alphabet of Barbed Wire
The Marriage Voyage of Juan Ramón Jiménez 1916
Portrait Statue of Caligula
On the Difficulty of Pumping High-Octane Gasoline into a ’39 Buick Century without Spilling a Drop
The Varsouvienne
Afterword.
The First Light of a Quantum Plenum
Urn Burial
Prayer
Regiment, 1941
49 Answers to 50 Questions
Water Clocks
The Cavalry
The Gentleman
The Pages
The Parade
The Tomb of the Scipios
Like Empires and Languages
Hall of the Imperial Silkworm
The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 1)
American Devotions
The museum of museum guards
The World’s Most Curious Books
Introduction: The World's Most Courious Books
“VCU Sculpture: The Formative Years” introduced by Elizabeth King
A Rising of the Wind: Art from a Time of Rebellion in the Congo
Introduction: Visions from the Congo
Gave Proof
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Larry Levis in Hawaiian Shirt, Blackbird
On Familiar Terms
November in the Former GDR, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Portrait of a One-legged Hero
At the Tomb of Naiads
Iron Curtain
Purged History of
Three Generations
Letters to Jack Johnson from Joe Frazier
At the Lawrence Ranch
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1729
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1885
November I Forna DDR
Duck and Cover (1951) | Federal Civil Defense Administration
Mother of Invention
Lost and Found Radio
Ochre TOC
David Wojahn’s Introduction to "Ochre"
Ochre i
Ochre ii
Ochre iii
Ochre iv
Ochre v
Ochre vii
Ochre viii
Ochre ix
Ochre x
Ochre xi
Ochre xiii
Ochre xv
Ochre xvii
Ochre xix
Ochre xxi
Ochre xxii
Ochre xxiii
Ochre xxiv
Something of Us to Prove Our Afterlife: Notes on "Ochre", David Wojahn
Review of From the Fever-World, Susan S. Williams
Mutiny
What’s Buried in the Ground
Secure the Shadow
The Angel of Death Knocks at the Door
Communion
Campidoglio
Bringing in the May, 1941
Boys Whistling like Canaries by Jorn Ake
An excerpt from Devil’s Dream
Beirut
Fiddle-dee-dee
“I”
“I”
Dark Ages
D Ghazal
And Ever
Review of Colosseum by Katie Ford
Review of The Lions by Peter Campion
Review of Salvinia Molesta by Victoria Chang
A Conversation with Travis Holland
A Conversation with Travis Holland
Twelfth Annual Levis Reading Prize, A Reading by Katie Ford
Restoration Portrait
Sweet Box
Transitions for Dancers When Dance Is No Longer an Option
Domestic Economics
The Whore's Guide to Etymology
Review of Hardscrabble, by Kevin McFadden
Review of Flight: New and Selected Poems, by Linda Bierds
Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #541
Stand | Two Excerpts
Archimedes under Myronas
Letter to N., Paris
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking
Edward Teller's Leg
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Review of Field, Folly, Snow by Cecily Parks
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 3
Review of Slantwise by Betty Adcock
Review of Vellum by Matt Donovan, David Roderickl
Review of A Murmuration of Starlings by Jake Adam York
A Conversation with Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Conversation with Matt Donovan, Blackbird
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part One
Making History
South Boston Morning, ’53:
Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Drug Department
From Replica of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue, Fall 1900
Lighting Department
Memorial Department
Ancestor, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Lawrence at the Etruscan Tombs
Peter Taylor and “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court,” Mary Flinn
Peter Taylor and the Drama of Storytelling
Four selections from “There Are No Names for Red,” Chris Abani
After Hanging Mao Posters
20
From 67 mogul miniatures
Vanishing Point
Vita Nuova
From the Calderstones
An Interview with Rebecca Black
Introduction: A Conversation with Rebecca Black
Review of Kettle Bottom by Diane Fisher
Janet Peery, A Conversation with Janet Peery
Janet Peery, A Conversation With Janet Peery
Incunabula
WHEN THEY LOST THE PLOT WE HAD ONLY THE NOTES TO GO ON
Holding For the Farrier
Arriving Gdansk Harbor, 2000: The Women We Have Left
June 1910, Susquehanna Valley
The Man Who Never Said Much
Casa Dei Dioscuri
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
Robert D. Richardson, Biographer—Long Walks on the Wild Side
Robert D. Richardson, Biographer—Long Walks on the Wild Side, Hal Crowther
Friday Night Fights in Florida: Contention From Wallace Stevens to Jay Hopler
AJ Liberto | Critters
Jokol Sokoly | Displacement and Disapora: The Modern Nomad
Remote Love
Remote Love
Obadiah (III) Peter Orner
From The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Tolberton County, 1923
Ennui
An Introduction to Sylvia Plath's "Ennui"
Sylvia Plath | Ennui Typescript (Earlier Draft)
Sylvia Plath | Ennui Typescript (Final Draft)
Edward Curtis' "Good Lance: Oglala"
Children Born After the War
Louisiana's Swamps
General Sweeney
Granite City
For Lamar Smith
At Liberty
For Reverend James Reeb
Substantiation
Prologue from William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Review: Love in an Expanding Universe
Chapbook Reviews I
A Conversation With Ron Slate, Audio Transcription
Blackbird, “Multiple Personality Disorder”: Speakers and Listeners in Lee Smith’s Novels
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Lee Smith
From the Letters of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck
Ten Poems from What Is Owed the Dead
Exile
Exile 2
Light
Requiem
Sheep
Charm Against a Broken Tongue
Prisoner of War Camp, Pine Grove Furnace
Bela
Review | Murder Ballads, by Jake Adam York
Introduction to The Straw Market, Henry Taylor
The Straw Market: A Comedy
Natasha Trethewey, Blackbird
The Interview
Meriwether and the Magpie
From The Machine Gunner’s Letters
In 1967
Disposing of the Body
Review | Circle, by Victoria Chang
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, II
Garden Spot, U.S.A.
The Boomers Take the Field
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
Sarah Bednarek | Ideologues & Dictators
Sarah Bednarek | Patriot Series
Afterthoughts by the Director, volume of smoke
Introduction, volume of smoke
volume of smoke
volume of smoke
Jake Adam York, Blackbird
Jiang Qing
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God
Wintering
My Father and the Astros
Bunk Richardson
Consolation
On Tallasseehatchee Creek
Vigil
K. 525
The Plunder House
From White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation
For Dancers Only
Just Say Goodbye to Mother
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with T. R. Hummer, February 16, 2004
Lung
Surface Hunting
The Superstition of Fire
Mummy on the Doorstep
Our Memory, the Shining Leaves (Waterford Fair Civil War Reenactment)
A Commission
Blackbird Feature, Susan Garrett, Review | Rescuing Patty Hearst, by Virginia Holman
Blackbird Feature, Virginia Holman, from Rescuing Patty Hearst
Disappeared: from a photograph by Gustave LeGray
The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610
Shugborough Hall
After Richmond Burned
Bell's Tavern
Review | My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Monologues from Songs from Bedlam
Mirage
Clockwork Prayer: An Illness
Clockwork Prayer: Looking at the Monk Then
Clockwork Prayer: Don Carlos and the Two Monks
Clockwork Prayer: Mise en Scène
Clockwork Prayer: Juanelo Turriano
Clockwork Prayer: The Attribution of the Monk
Clockwork Prayer: A Sixteenth-Century Mechanical Masterpiece
Clockwork Prayer: Short History
Clockwork Prayer: For Whose Sake?
Clockwork Prayer: Looking at the Monk Now
Clockwork Prayer: Acknowledgements
Clockwork Prayer: Epilogue
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Notes