Furtive Fandango
People walk by me unaware. A dog scratches her fleas [...]
Third-Millennium Heart
Sometimes nails are hit on the head before we realize [...]
The Last Cigarette On Earth
“I feel your pain,” writes PEN/Faulkner Award-winning fronterizo poet Benjamin [...]
Talking Turkey
Eleven wild turkeys have walked out of the woods into [...]
Letter to My Parents Explaining How I Became a City Person
1. First, I lived in cities. 2. Sitting beside the [...]
Love Poem
The flame moves in on the house this weekend, the [...]
After the Fact: Scripts & Postscripts
Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill carry on an inspired correspondence [...]
Kintsugi
in the art of kintsugi pottery is repaired by sprinkling [...]
New Collected Poems
Marianne Moore’s poetry asks how fully language, by focusing powerfully [...]
American Dream With Exit Wound
The lyric poems in Dawn McGuire’s third collection, American Dream [...]