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Poetry Month 2017: Jaime Luis Huenún
TWO POEMS from PORT TRAKL
I got off in the fog of Port Trakl,
searching for the bar of good fortune Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Anna Akhmatova
The Muse
When in the night I await her coming,
My life seems stopped. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Rita Brady Kiefer
Staying Power
for Anna Akhmatova
Even the swallows knew enough
to leave, their wings plotting south
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Poetry Month 2016: Bei Dao
Mission
The priest gets lost in prayer
an air shaft
leads to another era:
escapees climb over the wa Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Lisa Zimmerman
The Exiled Poet Reads to a Mostly
Middle Class White Audience
The white page is pure amnesia. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Sappho
Fragments—a line,
sometimes eight,
one scrap found stuffed in the mouth
of a mummified cat. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Carol Ann Duffy
Talent
This is the word tightrope. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Aaron Anstett
Ipse Dixit
May as well wager
which word prettiest—
reciprocal? meadow?
discrepancy? surgery?
accel Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Heather McHugh
After Su Tung P’o
On the birth of a son
When a child is born, the parents say
they hope itR Read More