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Hero
Between the Fields of Then and Now
Of Beauty and Suffering: Greece, 1969–1970
Mother Water Ash
For the Last Man on Portsmouth Island
The Director
The Pickup’s
American Four Square
Palmetto Train
Wreck Name: Unknown No. 3
Liminality, Place, and Poetry
The ‘Invisible’ Path
The Places We Inherit
Confessional
Almond Sweaterhead
Strong Gold
Foreign Affairs
Philomath
Field Report on ‘The Lizard Man’
Ghost Horses
Review by Katy Scarlett | “Philomath” by Devon Walker-Figueroa
Ixta’s been climbed by the Puebla English
Existence
Living History
Review by Danielle Kotrla | “Daniel Boone’s Window” by Matthew Wimberley
Wynwood Black
My Country, My Cousins
Somerville Avenue
Alviso
Aftermaths
Category Five
Dinner on the Patio, December
Hope Wall RVA, 2020–21
Hope Wall Slide Show
Solo in Guadalajara: A Lament
Matter
fourteenth attempt at going home
Poles
Sinkholes
Участок
A Plot
Необъяснимо тихо. Скрипит коляска
It's quiet here—except for a squeaking stroller
Three Versions of an Underpass, Somewhere outside Houston
Båten—Byn
The Boat — The Village
Uncommonwealth
Documenting Landscapes
Under the North
Untitled (I stared at the glint)
Mid-February at Navy Pier
By You
En Plein Air
Killarney
Trespass
Great Road
Maisie
The Best and Only Whore of Cwm Hyfryd
Old Haunts
To My Hips, Both Removed
Review by Caitlin Etherton | “The Long Weeping: Portrait Essays by Jessie van Eerden”
Holy Water
1918 Suite | Richmond Planet, “Much Trouble Here”
The Cult of Volta Temple
Civil Twilight
RoadsideAmerica.com Suggests Visiting the Ultraviolet Apocalypse
The Bus of Mrs. M.
Fressenstille
Nine Martinsville Screens
Rice Terraces, Northern Luzon
Distortion
Coming Home
Syncretism
Review | Nevada Days, by Bernardo Atxaga,
For Jamaica, for Ru
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two
In Trevi, One Town Over from Spoleto on the Train
Exhaust
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Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors
[Влітку], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Orange in a Schoolbag
Review | Clinch River by Susan Hankla
Review | Cherokee Road Kill by Celia Bland
“A Reading by Gretchen Comba and Karen Solie”
Ida's Boots
Introducing Taylor’s “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court”
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: I
Sunday Drive
Of Time and North
Out and Back
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
from "Like Nebraska" by Sophie Klahr
Eschatology in Crayon Wax
daayan, feet facing forward
Review | The Worlds We Think We Know, by Dalia Rosenfield
Dmitri In The Year Of The October Revolution, 1917
“A Conversation with Dorothy Allison”
Bruised Forest
Crossing Mourning Kill
Brief Sketch from There to Here
Independence Creek
Abandoned Shacks in North Carolina
Las Palmas Reales
Review | The Turner House by Angela Flourney
The Lizard Man
A Visit from the Bishop
Making Ready
The Portal of the Years
Poem Ending with a Hotel on Fire
Noyes Academy, the Nation’s First Coeducational Integrated School, Canaan, New Hampshire, 1835
If the Girl Refuses
A foolish moon in a foolish sky
St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad,Petersburg
Supermarket in Autumn
The Darkroom
Going Places
River Bytham
Arrowhead
I Am in Trouble, and Need Assistance
Fog on the Cher
Likeness, Introduction and Table of Contents
“A Reading by Anna Journey & David St. John”
“A Reading by Rickey Laurentiis,” 19th Annual Levis Prize
Somewhere Else in Texas
My City Is Also a City
Thrift Shop
Ink
I say arid and the room says storm
Tunnel of Green
The Missouri Compromise
Harvest Fair
A Cocoon That Would Break
Boom
Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
Flood of ’97
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing
When You Get Out of Prison
Poem on My 60th Birthday
Sound Wall
The Other Side
Waiting for the Diverted Trolley at 40th & Market St.
Outside Pasco
Pastoral (Future Interstate)
Pastoral (Radio)
Richmond
A Poet Came to Town
San Antonio Dogs
The Surrender of Breda
Selections from Chinquapins
Swinging Lessons
The Peace
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping Rope
Department of Aerial Photography
Blowout
Review | The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire, by Allison Titus
Get Up, You Abyss
Stoney Creek
Cast Net
Ice
Company Town
The City
Landscape and Departure
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
The Chickasaw Trees
Ghost Hour Gospel
Review | A Concordance of Leaves, by Philip Metres
Review | A Disturbance in the Air, by Michele Poulos
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #346: ‘The Banks Have Begun to Contract’
Figures in the Landscape
After the Tornado, the Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving
The Tornado Visits the Town
I Leave
Haibun for the Grantham Station Platform
The Varsouvienne
A Wayward Cow's Worst Nightmare
One Year After My Move to California, I Jell-O Wrestle My Texan Past in a Dream
Jail by Church and School
Recollect
the wild wild east
The Tomb of the Scipios
I’m Working on this Synecdoche
Journal of Responses
From a Place Other than the Lake
RRX
Berlin-Ljubljana-Tokyo
The museum of museum guards
A Rising of the Wind: Art from a Time of Rebellion in the Congo
Entrance and Exit
Gave Proof
Driving the Peugeot
Review | Wait, by Alison Stine
Review | Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by Natasha Trethewey
Two Cities, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
At the Lawrence Ranch
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1729
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1885
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Medieval Writing Desk
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Whist
Phenix City
Sea Smoke
Två Städer
Defying Gravity
September
Joshua Fought
Widow's Walk
If The World Asks
El Laberinto
As if in the Sleep of the Other
Seducing the Nymph from the Tree: Larry Levis, Metamorphosis, and Elegy
Review of Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts, by Amy Unsworth
Introducing Richard Carlyon’s Postcards from Aix, Nancy Rufty Schandelmeier, Blackbird v9n2
Curators’ Commentary by Ashley Kistler and Carol Ann Lorenz
Sweethearts
Jesús and the Snowman
House
Sixteen Poems
The Dead Man, 1958
Chapbook Omnibus Review
1-800-BUTTERBOLLY
Americaland
Antidote to the Chaos of Imagination
The Singing
Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots, Aliscon Pelegrin
Laura Gilpin’s “Navajo Shepherd Boy”
Fiddle-dee-dee
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
Elegy with a Chinese Checkerboard
Dear P. XXVI
Letter to the City Bayou by Its Sign: Beware Alligators
Night Ship to Ceuta
The Privilege of Power, 1965
Rousing the Machinery
View from the Headlands
Suburban Pastoral
Threshing
New Old-Girl
Review of Mission Work by Aaron Baker
Richard Carlyon Retrospective
Richard Carlyon RetrospectiveRetrospective Locations and Events
Stand | Two Excerpts
Marcus I: Tell me what happened to her
Variation on a Landscape | After Hockney's Winter Tunnel
The Cellar Stairwell at Jizō House
Larry Levis Visits Easton, PA During a November Freeze
Modern Romance
Motel 1
Motel 2
Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas
Walking Houseproud
Walking Angry in That City
Review of Moon Road by Ron Smith
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 2, Catherine MacDonald
Review of Field, Folly, Snow by Cecily Parks
Review of Slantwise by Betty Adcock
Nature, Culture, and Perception: Work by Tersita Fernández
A Reading by Gerald Stern, Blackbird
A Reading by Gerald Stern, Blackbird
A Reading by Charles Wright, Blackbird
A Reading by Charles Wright, Blackbird
A Reading by Charles Wright, Blackbird
Ghost Dog
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part One
Mountain Standard Time
Returning
South Boston Morning, ’53:
Hush
Esto Absoluta
Headmaster
The Well: Egg and Tongue
From Replica of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue, Fall 1900
Lighting Department
Memorial Department
This New City
Review of City of Regret by Andrew Kozma
Review | Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs, CRAIG BEAVEN
The Lesson of the Master
Peter Taylor and “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court,” Mary Flinn
Peter Taylor and the Drama of Storytelling
Review of Fire Baton by Elizabeth Hadaway, Catherine McDonald
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Flashpoint
Friday Afternoons on Bus Number 51
Pima Road Notebook (I)
Morning After the Prom
the honky tonk blues bar
Down in the Mines
Review of Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig by Jane Gentry
Introduction: Three Sopranos, Susan S. Williams & Mary Lee Allen
Gerald Donato | Against the Grain by Richard Roth
Introduction, Kabul from The War Zone is My Bed,Yasime Rana
Janet Peery, A Conversation With Janet Peery
A Distant Death
Population 204
Mrs. Cannon Passes the Parthenon on Her Way Home from Work
Arriving Gdansk Harbor, 2000: The Women We Have Left
The Kudzu Chronicles
Casa Dei Dioscuri
The House of Commons
Obadiah (I)
From The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
From The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Obadiah Chapters
The Tar Road
The Volunteer
Walls
Spare
A Gathering of Transits
Three Days After the Storm
Levis Here and There
Review: My Hand Upon Your Name
Review: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Chapbook Reviews II
Prologue from William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Review: Love in an Expanding Universe
Shigeo Kawashima, Ashley Kistler |From Beppu to Richmond: Shigeo Kawashima’s Story
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Lee Smith
This Time
Prisoner of War Camp, Pine Grove Furnace
Crows
Claudia Emerson: An Appreciation
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Orabelle’s Wheelbarrow, Characters and Setting
The Straw Market, Act I
The Straw Market, Synopsis and Production Notes
The Straw Market, Act II
Roulade
Necessary Authorities
Florida Ghazals
Jamaican Kids on a Painted Skiff
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
The Aqueduct's Up There Somewhere
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
American Bittern
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Firewalk
Least Terns at Beaver Creek
Tearing Down the Old Water Tower
The Plunder House
Review | You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival, by Wesley Gibson
Review | Jetty & Other Poems, by Talvikki Ansel
The Genie of the Station: John Newman's Skyrider
Disguise the Limits: Sculpture & Drawing by John Newman
Disguise the Limits
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Charles Wright, May 17, 2004
L'Heure Bleue
Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage
Unfinished Landscape with a Dog
Key West | Act One: North
Dan O'Brien, Key West
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Isabel Zuber, December 15, 2003
Slow Field of the Sky
Burning Instead of Beauty
Fahrenheit Meditation
Hitch-Hiking in the Dying South
Bad Night at Club Solidarity
Review | Separate Escapes, by Corrinne Clegg Hales
Radically Local
Blackbird Feature, Panel Discussion: The "Radically Local" in the Work of Sheila Pepe, August 15, 2003
Where We Live, J. D. Stevens
Postcard of the Dam the Mill Stood By
Sienese Variations
Shugborough Hall
After Richmond Burned
Greece
Bell's Tavern
Review | Pinion: An Elegy by Claudia Emerson
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Douglas Jones, March 14, 2003
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Ron Smith, January 15, 2003
Miniature Man
Dollar Bill
Chestnut
Nero
Zuni Ring