Nation Topics - Poetry | The Nation

for Aaron Korkegian

Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.

The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.

Celebrating Alice Notley, winner of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Justice may appear in the
guise of a hard, devious mother
I want shoes for my baby
son my werewolf son

in the antediluvian island
in the primordial swamp
Hardwood was already my friend

Thank Gerard
Cascade: rain torrential rain
waterfalls down our stone facade.

a prisoner is bound and gagged in free fall
the backdoor gift exposes an exchange rift
while a cognitive switch haunts its own turncoat

Not for all the whiskey in heaven
Not for all the flies in Vermont
Not for all the tears in the basement
Not for a million trips to Mars