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Wild Sweet Pea
New Orleans Love Poem
Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook
Chagall’s ‘Song of Songs III’
Azimuth
IV: Hermes Tells the Story (Within a Story) of Phaëthon
Advent of April
A Layered Poem
Parting with Kim
Parting with Kim
A Small Cypress Boat
The Circus
The Fire
The End of the Life of Giorgione da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter
“A Correspondence with Jesse Lee Kercheval”
Love Poem, Prefaced with an Ode to Tostones
Adonais
Platonic Love
Daño oculto
Hidden Damage
Connections
Our Life
Break Up Poem
Four Corners
One Plus One Minus One
Afforestry
Requiem
When the Heart Bursts
Solo in Guadalajara: A Lament
Ordinary Psalm Troubled by Truth and Lies
A Fairy Tale
Developments
Mail
More Fun . . .
For His Wife
Everything
The Cognac
Funchal
Funchal
The One Left
AM/FM
Birds and the Way They Understand Love
So Many Promises
Accoppiamento
Coupling
Diorama (there is a love story)
Finding Other Uses On Earth
‘Swan Lake’ with Dostoevsky
A Soviet Paining by Nikolai Solomin ‘She Did Not Wait’
Lapse
Leash Training
Broth
Anniversary in the Lookout Tower
77.15 Kelvin
Old Haunts
La Noche
The Night
Razones
Reasons
Exit Interview
Between Floors: Love and Other Blood-Related Diseases
Asteroseismology
Mu Puzzle
Mate Madrigal
Mistress Madrigal
Dear Delinquent
O Felon Heart
Dear Mat, For the red scarf I'm much obliged . . .
Dear Mattie, You're sweet to write to me every day . . .
Former Marys
A Love Letter to My Panic
New Year
The Way I Scream
Black Holes Collide
Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us
Exhaust
Sixty-Nine
Sixty-One
Liver of Sulfur
Inside excitement is a strand of terror
Breton in Mexico
Elegy for Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
The Air We Breathed
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country
from "Like Nebraska" by Sophie Klahr
Icarus in the House of Spirits
Poem for the Speakeasy
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Undone
Spell to Reverse Loss of Memories
The Weeknight Showing
[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
The Air We Breathed
Review | Orexia by Lisa Russ Spaar
Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Bruised Forest
Amor Fati
Duets
Continuing the Story
Door
Story
Black Snow
How Long Have You Been Sleeping, Snow?
To Get Here Today (a piano)
The Seven Ravens
Manifesto
Poem Ending with a Hotel on Fire
What is the most venomous animal?
Instinctive Drowning Response
Scylla & Charybdis
The Darkroom
Charis
Mr. Darcy (He ignores us)
GMOs
Kuwento ng Pag-Ibig
Love Story
Quiz: Eros
This Is a Love Story
Pact
VCR&B
Foregone Psalm
Almanac of What’s Real
Palinode
cam·pa·nol·o·gy
The Starveling
[Inside the heart, love carps it lacks space.]
گلہ ہے شوق کو دل میں بھی تنگیِ جا کا by Ghalib
[One life, a thousand wishes, each to die for slowly.]
ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے by Ghalib
[What will my friends do when all their gambits fail?]
دوست غمخواری میں میری سعی فرمائیں گے کیا by Ghalib
[You stopped just short of the highest note.]
محرم نہیں ہے تو ہی نوا ہائے راز کا by Ghalib
How to Survive
The Universe
Romanticism (the Blue Keats)
Different Fires
The Date
Blue Boy
Love
Honey,
The Bridge
El puente
Incarnations
Adam at the Garden’s Edge
Shark’s Tooth
Revenge of the Love Song of the Boy Parachutist
Review | A Disturbance in the Air, by Michele Poulos
[To those of us who would rather be alive]
Reasons for Staying
Soon, We Will Give In
Fontanels
The Wine-Dark Sea (IV)
Landscape: the moon
Love in the Time of Revolution
Rouse
Portraits of a Former Lover
The Hungering Eucalyptus
I. To Have & To Hold
The Man Code
The Oranges in Uganda
The Wine
Confessions for the Guerrilla Fighter Upstairs
Public Art
I’m Working on this Synecdoche
all of a sudden the ruin of possibilities and novelty
And Night Illuminated the Night
The Boy Shows the Girl His Country
All the Songs Are About You and Me and Our Agoraphobic Dog
At the Chinese Opera
The Doctors Say It’s Tinnitus
After Music
From a Place Other than the Lake
If Never the Why then at Least the How
Tender
Prayer
Science Experiment to Test the Durability of a Chemical Bond Between Romeo and Juliet
Paper Suns
Harry Harlow in the Pit of Despair
Infinidelity
IV. from Ampersand Revisited
V. from Ampersand Revisited
Pete
The city was burning—or it wasn’t.
I am the city and you are my work of great mischief.
The world is my
From Three Words of a Magnetic Poetry Set Found Caked in Dirt Beneath James Merrill’s Last Refrigerator
Between
The Edge of the Sea
Dream Over Dream
Attachment: Virtual Matryoshka
Bourbon in a Cup
Tagore Variations 4
Tagore Variations 3
Proposal
Kupole
Em
Cupolas, Tomaž Šalamun | Translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Ehm, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Misattribution 2: Nostalgia is a HoneyTrap
Review of Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
Review of Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts, by Amy Unsworth
Ghazal
Sweethearts
When All the Words Were Grass
The Dream Animals Long to Return
Last Date with Narcissus
It’s Love that Pushes Stockings Down, M. L. Brown
During the Final Scene
A Soul Addresses Her Beloved in the Non-Green Zone
In a Time of Excess and Hopeless Transport
string theory
Fractured Aubade : The Gods of Dawn :: Eating Grapes:
Perennial
Controlled Burn
Taste of Cherry
La Bufera: Our Last Trip to Sicily
Dear P. XXI
Dear P. XXIII
Dear P. XXIV
Dear P. XXVI
Lines
Mishap
New Direction
spring's confessional poem
Archimedes under Myronas
Modern Romance
Motel 2
Reconcile
For Penelope
Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas
Review of Moon Road by Ron Smith
Two Poets to Watch
Arts and Science, Act One
The Minotaur Speaks
All My Vendettas I’ve Given Your Name
Hush
In Another Country
Messina
The Rough Guide to Romantic Comedy
Faith, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Three Days in Flower
Being Shades Ourselves
Flashpoint
20
Review of Without a Philosophy by Elizabeth Morganr
Muse
The Lady Vanishes
Opening the Hive
In the City of Light
My Story in a Late Style of Fire
Dispatch From the Outpost
End of Free Love
Apparition of the Virgin
Still Life with Dog
From the Letters of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck
Ars Poetica
The Interview
Two Trains
Undertow
Eradication of Exotic Pests
Ashes of Roses
From a Distance, I Saw Bird
Kismet
Safe From Trains
In the Yeats Class, Summer Term
Red Guitar: Beyond Irony
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Act II
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
What You Meant Was
And So Because We Don't Want To
Luna Moth
Beast-Lover Variations
From the Undergrowth
Return to Sibiu
Once Upon a Time in Venice
The First Season of Marriage
At the Terminal
Paint
Dark Matter
Talk
Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire
Regrets Only, Not Much
Diary
Rope, String, Thread
Sleepy
Your World
Blaze
A Blueprint of Surface Tension
Brandon Som's Lonely Hotdog
The Oddest Sea
Review | What Narcisissm Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
The Boss's Boyfriend
My Things
Doppelganger Music
New Year's Eve
Lullabye
Untitled, with Peonies in Bloom
What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
Key West | Act Two: South
Blackbird Feature, Ron Smith, Review | Local Visitations, by Stephen Dunn, November 14, 2003
Blackbird Feature, Ron Smith, Review | Local Visitations, by Stephen Dunn, November 14, 2003
Fiona, from Late Bloomer
Dark Land of Desire
Arms of the Snake
Introductions, Blackbird
Tinnitus
Book of Hours
To One Lingering in the Trees
The Sublime
Turning, D. James Smith
Next Morning Letter
Want, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
Night-Blooming Jasmine
Zuni Ring