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Essay Against Metaphor
Zephyr
Ceremony
Advent of April
Advent of April
On Translation
A Layered Poem
Parting with Kim
A Small Cypress Boat
The Drain
Endnotes for ‘The Most Ingenious Artist: An Internet Adventure from the COVID Lockdown’
Review by Waverley Vesely | “Arrow” by Sumita Chakraborty
The Voice of the Poem
Notes in the Margin
A Trade
When I die, I will see the lining of the world
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset
The true meaning, ready to be decoded
What never added up will add up
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended
And if there is no lining to the world
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign
But just a thrush on a branch? If night and day
Make no sense following each other
And on this earth there is nothing except this earth
Even if that is so, there will remain
A word wakened by lips that perish
A tireless messenger who runs and runs
And calls out, protests, screams.
On Lines from Czesław Miłosz’s ‘Meaning’
Človek
Human
Field Blocks
R.U.R.: “Inventing Roboti”
“A Correspondence with Marilyn Nelson”
Blackbird
Sea
One Plus One Minus One
Ode to the Dozens Ending with Me & My Dogs
I Decided on a Winner
Four Cardinals
Missing Glossary
Some Notes on the Gazer Within
“A Conversation with torrin a. greathouse”
The Oxford English Dictionary
Polychrome
“Merleau-Ponty by G.C. Waldrep
After Reading the News this Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem
What is the layer
Collection & Identification
India West
An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe
The Literary Scholar
spell for their belly buttons/ with a dictionary clogging its windpipe
Review by Brandie Gray | “Dolefully, a Rampart Stands by Paige Ackerson-Kiely”
Burn after Reading, or Ghostwriting
Lost in Translation
New Ars Poetica
Another Immigrant Story
Maldito Sea el Día
Idea Vilariño
Jesse Lee Kercheval
All Must
Weightless
Review by Christian Detisch | “Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky”
Reading Claudia Emerson’s 'Eschatologies'
from Let's No One Get Hurt
Fressenstille
Translation: An Essay
Review | Calling a Wolf a Wolf, by Kaveh Akbar,
Setting Truth to Music
from Réflexions Poétique
from Réflexions Poétique
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One
OBIT (Voicemail)
Exhaust
Negar Emrani
The Mirror Never Lies
Poem at Altitude
Chasing Voices
Mirrorform: Shapeshifter
Mirrorform: Visionary
The Glass Sonata
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Delicatessen
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Undone
Alan Zhukovski
Tapping the Glass: On Poems, Aquariums, and Form
Review | Orexia by Lisa Russ Spaar
The Twilight of Truth?
Review | Look, by Solmaz Sharif
The Little GirlBoy Lost
London Song
Forest
Story
The Polygrapher
The Shock of War & All Those Bodies Effed [Dead
Derivation Devotional
Kwik-n-Reddy™ Pastry Recipe for Poetry Golem
Technology Used by Dogs
Different Lyrics, Same Melody
Word for the 21st Century
The Blank Page
The Reader
Translation Theory
Manifesto
Sincerity
The Truth Dog
Last. Child. Last. Child.
My English Teacher Tells Me
The Lame Take the Prey
Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You
T.R. Hummer: Visionary Imperfect
Finger
Girl
Ugly
“On Hearing That My Poems Were Being Studied in a Distant Place”: Thoughts on Distance, Difficulty, and Secret Addressees
Let There Be
Quiz: Eros
“A Converstion with Sandra Lim”
Schoolboy’s Blues
Blue Flower
Failing Big: What Elizabeth Bishop Teaches Contemporary Poets about the Twofold “Never Again” of Emotion and Craft
Lyric's Labor
The Pines
The Universe
Acknowledgements
Millions
My Friend Who Climbed into a Sentence
Title
Without Like or As
Catullus: Carmina, XL
XL
Catullus: Carmina, XXXIX
XXXIX
Compositions
Composiciones
I Didn’t Tell You I Wanted to Feel Your Chin at the Nape of My Neck
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Review | Headwaters: Poems, by Ellen Bryant Voigt
“A Conversation with Tom Sleigh”
The Poem as Balm
Ordinary Eros
A Moral Color
[To those of us who would rather be alive]
[The shutters close slowly in the camera]
[Because the queue was far longer for the question]
[After we found the sack of tchotchkes in the garage]
[Something of occupation]
[So long on Tantrum now]
The Wine-Dark Sea (I)
The Wine-Dark Sea (II)
The Wine-Dark Sea (III)
Landscape: the moon
engagement
Walking the Dog
Soon
Toad, Hog, Assassin, Mirror
The Geography of Anatomy by County
Martha Talks Evolutionary Theory of Anatomy
My Father’s Language
Like Empires and Languages
Irreducible is what I’m after,
golem
From a Catalogue for a Colorist
Brief Father,
Sermon on Form
Patient Sermon
Insomniac
Sphex
Orphan
Out of Pain
Review | In the Carnival of Breathing, by Lisa Fay Coutley
Review | Doppelgänged, by Fritz Ward
Review | Feral, by Patty Paine
Review | I Was Afraid of Vowels . . . Their Paleness, by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Science Experiment to Test the Durability of a Chemical Bond Between Romeo and Juliet
Extinct, Amy Beeder
Bird Call
Amputation Transcript, a Redaction
"Whether the World be finite, and but one"
Review | We Don't Know We Don't Know, by Nick Lantz
Ceci N’est Pas . . .
Counting Things
Tagore Variations 2
Me and My Books, Hanging Out, Chris Leo
Poetry as a Second Language, Yu Shibuya
Psaume 18, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 32, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 6, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Brez Anestezije, Aleš Debeljak | translation by Brian Henry
A D D
Kupole
Glede odpovedi
Em
Pesem talca
Leopard ne čepi
To Contain
Cupolas, Tomaž Šalamun | Translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Concerning the Denouncement, Tomaž Šalamun | Translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Ochre xvii
Review of Destruction Myth, by Mathias Svalina, and Sum of Every Lost Ship, by Allison Titus
The Inhuman Witness: Animals in the Poetry of Larry Levis
Unreality & Real Distress: Ekphrasis and Emotion in the Poems of Larry Levis
A Classic in Paraphrase
Ghazal
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
: before the armenian church :
hart crane after a heart-to-heart
An ABC of Reading the Poems of Liana Quill
Review of The Last Four Things by Kate Greenstreet
Review of Heathen by Lesley Wheeler
Review of Sight Map by Brian Teare
On the Origin of the Video Essay
Video Essay Suite | Blackbird Introduction
A Reading by Terrance Hayes
Silence, Reader, Melody S. Gee
Texture, Zachary Mason
The Name of Birds, Sara Quinn Rivara
Signs
Twenty Line Sonnet
Mined Muzzle Velocity
February Jinks, Rodney Nelson translating Ron Winkler
Light or Dark Speech
Self-Portrait & Other Calculations
D Ghazal
Februarsuiten
Some Notes On The Gazer Within
Review of And So by Joel Brouwer
Alan Bigelow, Commentary on Brainstrips by Neal Wyatt
Selections from Otherwhere
Police Report, November 25, 2007
La Bufera: Our Last Trip to Sicily
Lines
Meaning To Milk
Mishap
The Whore's Guide to Etymology
Review of Hardscrabble, by Kevin McFadden
Platform: An Introduction to Meghan O’Rourke
From Murderously To Mussel, Nicky Beer
The Soup and the Clouds, Kara Candito
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 2, Catherine MacDonald
Introduction: Chapbook Omnibus Review
Review of On Dream Street by Melanie Almeder
Review of Vellum by Matt Donovan, David Roderickl
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 1, Susan SettleMyre Williams
A Reading by David Baker, Blackbird
A Reading by David Baker, Blackbird
A Reading by Tomaž Šalamun, Blackbird
A Reading by Tomaž Šalamun, Blackbird
A Reading by Tomaž Šalamun, Blackbird
Tomaž Šalamun, Blackbird
Homework: Define Caliente
How Do You Say?
Lesson on the Letter S
Audio: Oral
Review of Fire Baton by Elizabeth Hadaway, Catherine McDonald
Notes Toward a Nonexistent Poet, Jehanne Dubrow
Inspiration, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
September
A Conversation with Michael Collier
Introduction: A Conversation with Michael Collier
In Praise of Darkness: An Exchange
Review of From the Book of Giants by Josh Weiner
Review of case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet
Blackbird Archive Audio, December 20, 2007 Feature
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Tenth Annual Levis Prize Reading
Until We Go To Sleep
Telescope Psalm
The Speaking Book
Incunabula
I am not a man; I am dynamite
WHEN THEY LOST THE PLOT WE HAD ONLY THE NOTES TO GO ON
Fertility
The Man Who Never Said Much
The Mayor of Glory River
Feet
Interrogation
prayer that goes: dear god
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Obadiah (I)
Obadiah (II)
Obadiah (V)
Study/Bees
Somewhere Other Than Florida
Ennui
Control C
Motion Makes Us Cough
Selected Imagery Based on Physical Gesture
Courage
Exile
Sheep
Charm Against a Broken Tongue
Ars Poetica
Stiff-Edged Kimono (Ruffled Iris)
Review | A Shot in the Canon’s Mouth: Catherine Wing’s Enter Invisible
Meriwether and the Magpie
Ordinarily
Alef: Seeding the Alphabet
Beit: The House of Musing
In the Yeats Class, Summer Term
Red Guitar: Beyond Irony
Red Guitar, Introduction
Review | First Hand, by Linda Bierds
Outside the Horse
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
Lent Prayer
Liliana Ursu, with Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin
Poetry in the World
Sarah Bednarek | Comforting Word
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt, March 30, 2005
Blackbird Feature, A Lecture by Ellen Bryant Voigt, December 1, 2004
One Knowledge
Saturday Morning Satori
OCD
The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Glossary
Review | The Darker Fall, by Rick Barot
Tutelary Instruments
Abstraction
Conte Bleu (The Blue Fairy Book)
Going Out Into the Crazy
Review | V: Wave.Son.Nets/Losing L'Una, by Stephanie Strickland
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Cornelius Eady, August 1, 2003
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Joshua Poteat, July 1, 2003
On the Occasion of an Argument beside the River Where I Live
Happiness: The Aesthetics of Donald Justice
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Lynn Emanuel, February 14, 2003
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Mark Jarman, December 2, 2002
Salat
Clockwork Prayer: Mise en Scène
Blackbird Feature, Hal Crowther, August 1, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Gregory Donovan, May 15, 2002