“If God is Good” by Quincy Lehr
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
Kipling Cross and New Criticism Street: A Poet’s Tube Map
Courtesy of Robert Peake. … Read More
“Corn and Gumballs Quarters Only / Do Not Jiggle Knobs or You Will be Banished . . .”: Found Poem Discovered at the Mouth of Long Cove on Neck Island by Botanist and Naturalist Javier Penalosa
Jan Schreiber submits a found poem forwarded to him by botanist and naturalist Javier Penalosa.… Read More
David Yezzi’s Opera Firebird Motel Performed in Delaware
(Contains mature language and subject matter. Not recommended for younger audiences.)… Read More
“Sunrise with Sea Monsters” by Ernest Hilbert
Coming in 2013: All of You on the Good Earth guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers, spaced-out movie stars and pugnacious comic book characters come to life, frenzied dropouts,… Read More
“After a Death” by Tomas Tranströmer
Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureate for literature, the first poet since 1996. … Read More
“Center City” by Ernest Hilbert
The bank that inspired this poem is now an Apple store, for whatever that's worth . . . … Read More
“The More Loving One” by W. H. Auden
"A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects." - W.H. Auden… Read More
“Drop Out” by Ernest Hilbert in Horizon Review
"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
“Drunk” by Christopher Bakken
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
“Another Lullaby for Insomniacs” by A.E. Stallings
"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
“Out of Shot” by Quincy Lehr
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
“Bluebells” by Stephen Burt
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
“House and Home” by Ernest Hilbert in Horizon Review
"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
“Balloon Man” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson teaches in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University and is an editor of Front Porch Republic (frontporchrepublic.com). He has published many essays, poems, and… Read More
“A Change of Season” by Quincy Lehr
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
“Couple” by Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. Since 1995 he has taught American literature at the Charles University, Prague. He has published three books of criticism,… Read More
“Nibble Song” by J.H. Prynne
"The poetry of J. H. Prynne is both obscure and difficult; qualities tolerated in canonical and foreign writers (Blake, Mallarmé, Celan, late Beckett), but treated with enormous resentment and suspicion in contemporary… Read More
“Palm” by Laura Kasischke
Laura Kasischke's work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Southern Review, Iowa Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son,… Read More
“Darkness” by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." - Lady Caroline Lamb… Read More
“Laryngitis Lights” by Paul Siegell
"I haven’t had this much fun reading a book of poems in a long time. Paul Siegell’s fast-paced rave-on-the-page jambandbootleg follows a loose narrative in which the speaker and his friends travel… Read More
“Curriculum Vitae” by Samuel Menashe
"The public career of Samuel Menashe demonstrates how a serious poet of singular talent, power, and originality can be utterly ignored in our literary culture. There are, of course, several reasons for… Read More
“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of The… Read More
“Sci-Fi” by Tracy K. Smith
"We read poems because they change us, and our reasons for writing them hover around that same fact. A poem, a good poem, speaks to and from a place that belongs to… Read More
“Sonnet 66” by William Shakespeare
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry . . .… Read More
“In the great snowfall before the bomb” by Lorine Niedecker
"It's hard to write about Lorine Niedecker without using the terms that have, in part, kept her in critical obscurity. Her poems are plain styled and folk driven, wryly in love with… Read More