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Yes, of course: in the end, we found the guilty ones, aliens over-running the route. We were not alone: we had to be tough. It’s true: we were outnumbered. But for quality we hold…
Jun 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Ennio Moltedo
from ‘For a Daughter/No Address’ from ‘For a Daughter/No Address’
Reportless Subjects, to the Quick / Continual addressed— —Emily Dickinson if what etches into your eyes leaves a small canyon in its trough is there th…
Apr 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Farid Matuk
A Lower Register Sweetness A Lower Register Sweetness
What a privileged person I am to be relieved to no end and to have you back putting me in my place. Thank you for coming along! Thank you for ordering me! We’re ending a crucial fe…
Apr 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Josh Kalscheur
Echo: From the Mountains Echo: From the Mountains
Unicorns brought the news of human reason to the border So we gassed them. It was unlike the echo of guitars in a stone Cathedral or midnight’s crow landing snow in a field of whea…
Apr 7, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Roger Reeves
Lyric Lyric
Every terror is an angle through which waiting for the universal proves vain is the new fruitful you said. I said how long must lyric prevent us from saying what needs no meaning.
Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Zohar Atkins
love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf) love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf)
you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf at the holiday dinner I sit between you my mother, her husband, reproduction everywhere and wonder why we pass or do we pass? for…
Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Young
Carbon Copies Carbon Copies
1- Cattle in the agriculture of a self besieged by the deceit of payback as insurance against extinction. There are other ways. Everything in moderation. The middle path comes afte…
Mar 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Fady Joudah
The Virtues The Virtues
To practice the virtues, you’ll need to ask What a virtuous person would do in a situation Like this one, here in the health-food restaurant, After witnessing the young father, two…
Mar 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Carl Dennis
Immigrant Song Immigrant Song
Bitter Mother Blue, dead, rush of mothers, conceal your island, little star. Trains, hands, note on a thread, Poland’s dish of salt. They said, The orphanlands of America promise y…
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Dana Levin
The Excavation The Excavation
My 8-yr-old daughter is teaching me how to live with myself after 34yrs in this body I can finally split myself in two & marvel that now I pass the Bechdel test. What I’ve let…
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jenn Givhan