(excerpt from THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE) Why hasn’t […]
Poetry
1. But no one tells that story any longer. That story is a bear trap glazed with […]
Once In the Land of Cumulative Pelts . . . ...
I. Again I return to that leaning barn of whitewash and wind-warped rafters, weathervane that never […]
For My Brother by Michael Meyerhofer
All my enemies, bargaining with God. I see them lined up like needles, ready to aim into […]
War by Kate Lutzner
nebula Jupiter a dozen dead cannons plus a silhouette on an opposite […]
IN THIS ORDER by Tina Cane
The following essay is adapted from a talk delivered as part of a 2012 AWP panel […]
Found in Translation: Mapping the Music
Water we cross over. Water we forget. Water we throw on fire without regret. Water we […]
Water by Jeff Oaks
MY PAINTING ATTEMPTS CAME TO NOTHING. I guess I thought it only took throwing some paint on […]
23 (from New Banalities) by Brane Mozetic translated by Tamara ...
A wall of clocks always catches my attention. So many time zones […]
HARBOR by June Rockefeller
That we’d seen a boy of twelve or thirteen riding a roan mare bareback through rye made […]
The Canon by Lesley Jenike
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. Your form—framed by my small hands, […]
Your form by Chad Parmenter
The aerial view looks like a bathtub filled with colored pencils. But the pencils are splintered. The […]