- November 3, 2018
John Reibetanz
1. PompeiiLook how they made walls vanish not by running through them
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- November 2, 2018
Brian Swann
Heavy damp blue smoke loses its way among bending reed and rill, fromheaps of turved hassocks, where they’ve readied land for ridging to curb floodand purify the air, he says, though come fall of leaf it will be fen again. For now,
- November 1, 2018
Carl Dennis
In 1949, when I was ten,A year after the airlift for beleaguered BerlinHad foiled Stalin’s attempt to starve it
- October 31, 2018
Arleen Paré
the year they diedthey died together Francesand Florence though apart by one floor and three weeks
- October 30, 2018
Meena Alexander
In a crumpled shirt (so casual for a god)Bow tucked loosely under an arm still jittery from battle
- October 28, 2018
Ellen Boyette
Couldn’t fathom more than arranging verdant data leftby predecessors so, like wind
- October 27, 2018
Daniel Coudriet
The old roads are not of the body.The fish swarm the surface.Plants find their own suns.
- October 26, 2018
Miriam Bird Greenberg
For almost forty years I have been alive,
and the magnitude of my unknown grows
before me, its shape the shadow
