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“Sempre Aperto Teatro” by Patrizia Cavalli (Trans. by Tom d’Egidio)

By On April 27, 2024

A translation from the Italian by Tom d'Egido. … Read More

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“Lost Glove” by Charles Simic

By On January 10, 2023

Charles Simic, a Serbian-American poet and former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, has died at the age of 84. He is the author of many books… Read More

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“Vespers” by Louise Glück

By On October 8, 2020

Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”Glück is also a Pulitzer Prize and National Book… Read More

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“Medusa” by Patricia Smith

By On June 17, 2019

Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP… Read More

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“Platypus” by Les Murray

By On April 30, 2019

Les Murray, who died yesterday, was one of Australia's leading poets. He was the author of some thirty books of poetry, most recently Collected Poems (2018, Black Inc Publishing), On Bunyah… Read More

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“Utøya” by John Wall Barger

By On July 27, 2018

John Wall Barger’s poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Antioch Review. His fourth poetry collection, The Mean Game, is coming out with Palimpsest Press in spring… Read More

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“The Man In The Dead Machine” by Donald Hall

By On June 25, 2018

“However wrenching [Hall’s poems] may be from line to line, they tell a story that is essentially reassuring: art and love are compatible, genius is companionable, and people stand by one another… Read More

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“A Song for New Year’s Eve” by William Cullen Bryant

By On December 31, 2016

Happy new year, everyone. … Read More

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From “Christmas Oratorio” by W.H. Auden

By On December 28, 2016

Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes— Some have got broken—and carrying them up to the attic.… Read More

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“Be Angry At The Sun” by Robinson Jeffers

By On November 8, 2016

"Of all the poets of his generation, [Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon… Read More

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“Poem Begun on the Autumn Equinox” by Ernest Hilbert

By On September 22, 2016

"The American lyric rendered in these poems follows Coleridge’s description of the sonnet as 'adapted to the state of a man violently agitated by a real passion.' Hilbert’s passion here is… Read More

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“Dog Days (Caniculares Dies)” by Ernest Hilbert

By On August 15, 2016

In his debut collection, Sixty Sonnets, Hilbert establishes a variation on the sonnet form, employing an intricate rhyme scheme and varied line length. A skillful practitioner of form and nuance, Hilbert shifts… Read More

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“Summer” by John Clare

By On July 19, 2014

Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come, For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom, And the crow is on the oak a-building… Read More

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“cruel, cruel summer” by D.A. Powell

By On July 13, 2014

"Born in Albany, Georgia, D.A. Powell received an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and… Read More

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“Christmas at Sea” by Robert Louis Stevenson

By On December 20, 2013

The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand . . .… Read More

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“Prelude: Dusk in the Ruins” by Ernest Hilbert

By On March 29, 2013

“‘Genes clarify the genius and the freak / And prove we descend from a feral band,’ Ernest Hilbert writes in ‘Outsider Art,’ and there is no mistaking the ‘feral’ appetite and… Read More

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“Christmas Eve” by Anne Sexton

By On December 24, 2012

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods— that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady, your portrait flickered… Read More

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“BUNGA-BUNGA” by Quincy Lehr

By On November 15, 2011

A brand new poem from one of our favorite young New York poets. … Read More

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“Days of 1987” by Christopher Bakken

By On November 12, 2011

Christopher Bakken’s second book of poetry, Goat Funeral (Sheep Meadow, 2006) was awarded the Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry published… Read More

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Two by Quincy Lehr

By On October 21, 2011

Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More

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“After the Rain” by Anthony Hecht

By On October 20, 2011

“It was Hecht's gift to see into the darker recesses of our complex lives and conjure to his command the exact words to describe what he found there. Hecht remained skeptical about… Read More

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“Mad world! Mad kings!”: Philip the Bastard’s “Mad world” speech from King John

By On October 14, 2011

Thanks to David for suggesting this. … Read More

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“If God is Good” by Quincy Lehr

By On October 10, 2011

Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More

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“After a Death” by Tomas Tranströmer

By On October 6, 2011

Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureate for literature, the first poet since 1996. … Read More

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“The More Loving One” by W. H. Auden

By On October 3, 2011

"A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects." - W.H. Auden… Read More

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“Drop Out” by Ernest Hilbert in Horizon Review

By On September 30, 2011

"Horizon Review takes its name and its inspiration from Horizon, the magazine Cyril Connolly ran from the outbreak of the War in 1939 until it closed in 1949. Horizon was very much… Read More

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“Drunk” by Christopher Bakken

By On September 29, 2011

Christopher Bakken’s second book of poetry, Goat Funeral (Sheep Meadow, 2006) was awarded the Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry published… Read More

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“Another Lullaby for Insomniacs” by A.E. Stallings

By On September 26, 2011

"A. E. Stallings is a poet and translator mining the classical world and traditional poetic techniques to craft works that evoke startling insights about contemporary life. In both her original poetry and… Read More

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“Out of Shot” by Quincy Lehr

By On September 26, 2011

Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More

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“Bluebells” by Stephen Burt

By On September 25, 2011

Stephen Burt grew up in and around Washington, DC, taught at Macalester College in Minnesota from 2000-07, and is now Professor of English at Harvard. His most recent book is The Art… Read More