“Crab” by Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead… Read More
“A Small Hotel” by Selima Hill
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“Bird Advice” by Jill Alexander Essbaum
There you go again, head in hand and wringing out the vandal curl of your hair, the only sparrow Jesus has his eye on. Of course we’ll eat your breadcrumbs. Mostly, you… Read More
“Helen” by H.D.
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“Ecce Homo” by James Matthew Wilson
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“The Canto of Ulysses” by Morri Creech
Primo Levi, in his apartment in Turin, reading The Divine Comedy. February, 1987 Drowsing, head propped above the eighth circle, he feels the present shifting like a keel, takes his bearings by… Read More
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“The Business of Love is Cruelty” by Dean Young
It scares me the genius we have for hurting one another. I’m seven, as tall as my mother kneeling and she’s kneeling and somehow I know exactly how to do it, calmly,… Read More
“The Feast of Stephen” by Anthony Hecht
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“Wolves” by Louis MacNeice
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“Australia 1970” by Judith Wright
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“Lilacs” by Peter Campion
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“Men at Forty” by Donald Justice
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“The Geranium” by Theodore Roethke
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“Vocation” by Carol Rumens
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Domo Visits the Grand Canyon and the SXSW Film Festival
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“Super Sneaky Squirtin’ Stick”: Wham-O Product Names are Pure Poetry
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“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster… Read More
“The Woman at the Washington Zoo” by Randall Jarrell
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Head over to the Best American Poetry this week as Ernest Hilbert “Guest-Blogs!”
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“The Best of It” by Kay Ryan
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“Interior” by Christian Wiman
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E-Verse Tops 5,000 Regular Readers
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