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Valerie Duff
Birds crack seeds
on the other side of your glass
door. The body, blind, curves
its hedge down paths.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- July 5, 2020
Luke Patterson
eat biscuits wait for the wind to calm
sheepish hawks circle thermal pockets
birdsong warms the valley lips
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- July 4, 2020
James Longenbach
A book is the future.
You dream
Of reading it, and once you’ve finished, it’s a miracle, you know the past.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- July 3, 2020
Yu Xiuhua (translated from the Chinese by Wang Fang & Yvonne Reddick)
I read your poems in a clean yard. All the world’s love-affairs
are a blur, like sparrows darting by,
and the years are pure as moonlight. No, I’m not being sentimental —
if I send you a book, it won’t be poetry.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- July 2, 2020
Anna Swir (translated from the Polish by Czesław Miłosz & Leonard Nathan)
The soul asks the body:
Is it true
that we do not really exist?
The body says:
I’m tanning my knees.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- July 1, 2020
Maya C. Popa
Longing, I said, pushing distance
through a cage—
it's why the picture city must be snowed in.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 30, 2020
In “Envoy,” mythology becomes a stand-in for the abiding narratives of this world, which are placed in opposition to the mutable, ever-changing narratives of the state (what today we might call alternative facts).
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- June 29, 2020
Zbigniew Herbert (translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles)
Keep watch—when a light on a hill gives a sign—rise and go
as long as the blood is still turning the dark star in your breast
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 29, 2020
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 28, 2020
Mark Bibbins
When someone in a movie dies
with their eyes open
the lids are made to look
so easy to close
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 27, 2020
