Poetry In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky By Romeo Oriogun August 10, 2022 One morning, on a wet day during the week... Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Irrawaddy Delta, 2016 By Maung Day August 3, 2022 A grain of rice cannot feed a hundred mouths
Poetry Hypertension By Courtney Faye Taylor July 27, 2022 In the early 1870s, at the mouth of the Big Bend tunnel, / John Henry beat a mechanical steam drill in a “steel driving” / contest. Race
AudioPoetry Search Party By Steven Espada Dawson July 20, 2022 Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled / a hundred russets. Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Bringing Up Mother By Idman Omar July 13, 2022 I was not dressed correctly when / motherhood interviewed me. Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear By Eugenia Leigh June 29, 2022 Another poem mannequin- / Ing the body. Bodies & Nature
Poetry from Beyond the Somber Station By Liliana Ponce, translated by Michael Martin Shea June 22, 2022 Thought reduced to ashes — / in the golden sky tracing lines.
AudioPoetry The Christmas Poem By Jackson Holbert June 15, 2022 there are thousands of days left / tens of thousands if we’re lucky Arts & Culture
AudioPoetry A Poem Is a Landscape of the Mind By Megan Pinto June 8, 2022 It was the winter of my life. Afternoons, / I watched light fade / from the faces of brownstones.
AudioPoetry When the Sky Is Closed By Mark Yakich June 1, 2022 Not even children who brave the street / Will notice the robins, mistaking them for nightingales.
Poetry Hope Dissidents Mona Kareem, translated by Sara Elkamel May 25, 2022 When we die, / the cemetery keeper tires / of surveilling our graves’ windows.
Poetry One Hundred Percent House By Shin Hae-uk, translated by Spencer Lee-Lenfield May 18, 2022 A house where no one lives / needs someone to draw it full of glass, / then smash that glass to bits.
Poetry In the Field of the Dead By Luisa Muradyan May 4, 2022 I have brought the wrong kind of sandwiches / and yes, I know this poem is supposed to bring us there Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Vigilance By H. R. Webster April 27, 2022 The hottest summer on record I couldn’t open the windows.
Poetry Contemporary Utopia By Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated by Mona Kareem April 20, 2022 Skilled carpenters / excellent mechanics / energized farmers / fierce fighters Labor
AudioPoetry AFTER SEVEN YEARS I’M HOME AGAIN & ANIMAL AS EVER By Despy Boutris April 14, 2022 I think back / to childhood— // to this state / & its former rainfall
Poetry the wind would not stop Xiao Xi 小西, translated by Yilin Wang April 6, 2022 a child licks the candy wrapper; the treat has fallen into the mud.
AudioPoetry Girl from By Vandana Khanna March 30, 2022 I tell the oracles that no one has touched / me, that plenty have looked, drunk their fill / on my ( ). Gender
AudioPoetry Without Them By Bernardo Wade March 23, 2022 Thirsty / doesn’t describe what we’re looking for, / yet for some it means desperate for another’s touch. Climate & Environment
AudioPoetry A Barn of Many Languages By Saddiq Dzukogi March 16, 2022 my tongue is at war with a new language
Poetry With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones By Khrystia Vengryniuk, translated by Dmytro Kyyan March 11, 2022 With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones. / Clouds are pressing on my shoulders,
Poetry Pear Snow By Todd Dillard March 2, 2022 It’s my job to find the dead, / chauffeur them back to their plots.
AudioPoetry Tenement By Kellam Ayres February 23, 2022 I’d been undoing myself for years. / Why would this day be any different? Bodies & Nature
Poetry Bomb that tree line back about a hundred yards. Give me room to breathe. By Cathy Linh Che February 16, 2022 Daughter, I think you embellish. A bomb / is nothing like a slammed door.
Poetry After The Offering Ritual, Cain Carries Abel Home By I.S. Jones February 9, 2022 Violence is a failure of communication. / The shoulder severed from the dream / of the socket.
Poetry from and when the light comes it will be fantastic Kristin Berget, translated from the Norwegian by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri February 2, 2022 This landscape snares us with its dry stalks
AudioPoetry Swing By N. K. A. Prempeh January 26, 2022 At some point, fathers stop unraveling / in private, don’t they?
AudioPoetry Extended Release By Lesley Wheeler January 19, 2022 I won’t know how to daughter till it’s done.
Poetry When You Land at Ben-Gurion Airport By Issam Zineh January 12, 2022 a convocation of desert eagles rises from your spleen, / each one carrying a stone
Poetry when I say hello to the oldest apples By Ina Cariño December 6, 2021 they tell me / a mountain is good for me Dirt
Poetry The Summer Your Parents Split By Kathleen Radigan December 6, 2021 All my life I never told you how quiet it was / on the dismount Dirt
Poetry Forgiveness By Ada Limón November 10, 2021 It was the winter of manatees, Captain / Rhonda and her chartered pontoon boat / floating down the Crystal River.
Poetry The Heart of Europe By Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry November 4, 2021 The heart of Europe is elegant and / dead.
Poetry American Monster By Bryan Byrdlong October 28, 2021 "Thursday, I am born, / of the white glove’s lazy C-section" RaceUSA
AudioPoetry Earning Keep By Sophie Klahr October 26, 2021 “You can see the pure it-ness / of anything if you cut it right”
AudioPoetry The Daughter Myth By Vuyelwa Maluleke October 14, 2021 “Say then that I am overflowing / & nobody’s fool & did not give up"
Poetry On Being Asked What I Am Tired Of By Paul Guest October 7, 2021 The weather of course and the afternoon light / that might as well be bad milk
Poetry From Aterrizar no es regreso Xavier Valcárcel, translated by Carina del Valle Schorske September 16, 2021 “On the islands, leaving comes to seem like the natural thing to do.” Americas
Poetry Propuesta de Financiamiento para el Plan de No Hacer Nada / Funding Proposal for the Do-Nothing Plan Rubén Ramos Colon, translated by Raquel Salas Rivera September 15, 2021 “I will need a grant of a million or two. / A million or more.” Americas
Poetry Traducción / Translation Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated by Urayoán Noel September 14, 2021 "America I spent it all and now I'm nobody.” Americas
Poetry Against Empire: A Folio of Puerto Rican Writers Raquel Salas Rivera and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado September 13, 2021 Guest editors Raquel Salas Rivera and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado introduce three writers who “counter the loneliness and exploitation of U.S. capitalism.” Americas
Poetry The Show of Growth By Nakeisha Cantzlaar August 19, 2021 "And right there and then, I showed her, I wouldn’t be of much use." PEN America DREAMing Out Loud Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry My Mom Buried a Saint in the Yard By Laura Villareal August 12, 2021 Not like you think, but yes, he’s upside down. Family & Relationships
Poetry The Night is an Eruption of Nebulas By E. Hughes August 5, 2021 A pipe is a globe of loss— the baby / has no diapers and auntie had to bring some by.
Poetry Limbs Astride, Land to Land By Rita Dove August 3, 2021 "Static pinging / at the edges of thought: the sound a wall makes / powering down.”
AudioPoetry The Women By Maggie Queeney July 29, 2021 more than the men, even. The ones who looked / like I looked. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry Passing Through By Hala Alyan July 8, 2021 “Her father is dying, her father / is Beirut and Akka and a single building in this world.”
Poetry from Bodies By Max Rojas, translated from the Spanish by Zane Koss and Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz July 1, 2021 “Like ash or nearing the fabrication of mirrors / or alcoholic drinks”
Poetry Take the Bait By Adele Elise Williams June 17, 2021 “Memory. Now that’s a thing a girl / can get behind.” Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Metamorphic Sonnet By Eric Wang June 3, 2021 How could I not praise the Chinese grandmother / rocking her floral print tracksuit?
AudioPoetry Bulbous with an Egregious Silence By Joseph Omoh Ndukwu May 27, 2021 “while the aunties sit weaving an awful dress of effrontery / —and I wish we could be alive in several ways but this one” Family & Relationships
Poetry relapse dream By Anthony Thomas Lombardi May 20, 2021 "& when will i be emptied by what a night doesn’t promise instead of what it does” Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Man at Desk By Rigoberto González May 13, 2021 There’s a man who sits at his desk this evening, / bearing witness to the end of days.
Poetry Umm Kulthum Singing for the Prophet Poetry by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid April 22, 2021 The Star of the East sings for the Prophet / while I release my song
AudioPoetry Ordnance By Steven Duong April 8, 2021 “The world is a list of things / I keep from my father.” Family & RelationshipsHistory
AudioPoetry LOS ÁNGELES By Cintia Santana March 18, 2021 We’re going to see the angels / my father says but in Spanish Family & RelationshipsHistory
Poetry Scene VI Poetry by Loisa Fenichell March 11, 2021 Of course, there was a you, and between the two of us, what were we but frightened?
Poetry A Bulldozer’s American Dream Poetry by Shangyang Fang March 4, 2021 At the construction site the bulldozer works days & nights. / No, it is the man inside who works.
Poetry No More Poetry by Subhashini Kaligotla February 16, 2021 Soon after mere seconds after he became the body
Poetry Fable Poetry by Audrey Gradzewicz January 28, 2021 Long ago, in the garden of a man who tried to kill me, / I tended watermelon, green pepper, tomatoes as blighted / as hurt.
Poetry Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard Poetry by Felicia Zamora January 14, 2021 Who parted / your shell, in wedge & tear? Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Living Dead Poetry by Salgado Maranhão, translated from the Spanish by Alexis Levitin December 10, 2020 They do not think that they will disappear / into the amusement park / of nothingness.
Poetry Wave Built in the Form of Prayer Poetry by Dan Sullivan December 3, 2020 When does my body stop being a goal?
Poetry Dispatch from the Clorox War Poetry by Andrea Cote Botero, translated from the Spanish by Craig Epplin November 19, 2020 I believe there are two worlds. / In one of them I clean it all, / all the time. Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Cannon on the Hood of My Father’s Car Poetry by Martín Espada November 5, 2020 Someone tore the cannon off the hood. That’s why we missed it. Family & Relationships
Poetry Ambergris and Gasoline Poetry by Patrick Meeds October 29, 2020 Imagine what that’s like for the whale. Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Repast of a Lion in Dream Poetry by Jai Hamid Bashir October 15, 2020 Unbuilding each rampart of our small, animal hearts.
Poetry Clock Hands By Hua Xi October 1, 2020 My bones say / don’t you have any place to be. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Acarapis woodi Poetry by Matt McBride September 24, 2020 “Breathing makes us susceptible.” Bodies & Nature
Poetry 9 dreams By Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated from the Spanish by Katie Marya August 27, 2020 I feel as though I’ve dreamed / something terrible, but I don’t remember / what. Arts & CultureBodies & Nature
Poetry Pandemic Jobs for Poets Poetry by Beth Bachmann August 7, 2020 Young poets join the army: burial of the dead is already / on your resume. Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Home Poetry by Jamaica Baldwin July 17, 2020 I was mesmerized by how willing her skin / was to leave her. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry [in this ancestral land] Poetry by Alain Mabanckou, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson July 2, 2020 barbed wire circling raised voices Bodies & Nature
Poetry Project Paradise Poetry by Rubén Merriwether Peña, translated from the Spanish by David Rock June 19, 2020 Of course we could begin / with the moon, so famous
Poetry Imperfect Poetry by David Kirby May 22, 2020 in art / there are so many more endings / that we can’t even imagine it. Arts & Culture
Poetry good friday or second nocturne with the invisible shepherd Poetry by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin May 15, 2020 father is everything but a good snake / charmer. Family & Relationships
Poetry Is This Not Why You Are Here? Poetry by Michael Hurley April 24, 2020 He didn’t see the flares / because our dreams are limitless. Arts & Culture
Poetry Visitation Poetry by Kerri Webster April 10, 2020 Light! Light! I hear her calling when she’s a block away as if she’s a monger of light. Family & Relationships
Poetry Your Name Means Garden Poetry by Innas Tsuroiya March 27, 2020 What does it mean to graduate / your way through the world? Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry Hurricanes with the Names of My Friends Poetry by Jonathan Aprea March 13, 2020 We are disappearing into / the map’s folds. Small birds. Smaller ones. Arts & CultureBodies & Nature
Poetry [You button this coat as if one sleeve] Poetry by Simon Perchik February 28, 2020 making room for the night sky / the dead try on Bodies & Nature
Poetry Blank Notes Poetry by Lee Young-ju, translated from the Korean by Jae Kim February 14, 2020 How about adopting a fully grown girl? Says a broken-headed doll. Bodies & NatureGender
Poetry Morning Poetry by Yi Sang, translated from the Korean by Michael Joseph Walsh and Jae Kim÷a> January 24, 2020 there’s so much of it, this night Arts & CultureBodies & Nature
AudioPoetry The Empty City Poetry by Michael Bazzett January 10, 2020 I went to the doctor and found out / there is an empty city inside me. Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Milk Teeth Poetry by Gale Marie Thompson December 23, 2019 I lean my open neck against yours. / The miracle always returns with a hunger. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry Portrait of a Boy with Grief Poetry by Wale Ayinla December 6, 2019 you will open your wounds / and make them a garden Arts & CultureFamily & Relationships
Poetry Snow Hare Poetry by Alycia Pirmohamed November 22, 2019 you know how to pull down a tree / with only your teeth Bodies & Nature
Poetry from 13th Balloon Poetry by Mark Bibbins November 8, 2019 Since you died a thousand birds / have daily flown through me Family & Relationships
Poetry I Would Steal a Car for You Poetry by Martín Espada October 25, 2019 I may be sixty-two, but I wish I could steal a car for you. Family & Relationships
Poetry Out of Water Poetry by Luis Chaves, translated from the Spanish by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim October 4, 2019 The sea of simpler songs only the drowned and the fish know to sing. Bodies & Nature
Poetry I Am Your Abyss Poetry by Abraham Sutzkever, translated by Maia Evrona September 26, 2019 I am your young death. And here I am found: / In me is your skeleton. I carry it within.
Poetry Sculpture Poetry by Mieczysław Jastrun, translated from the Polish by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman September 10, 2019 That early star is not for us. Arts & Culture
Poetry My Turn Poetry by Johanny Vázquez Paz, translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel August 28, 2019 I seal myself in a coffin and pretend to be dead. That way death is a game of hide-and-seek and not a witness to the terror.
AudioPoetry indelible in the hippocampus Poetry by Caroline Crew August 20, 2019 Memory is no solid monument but liquid’s / twins of substance and ceaseless swell. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Untitled Poetry by Jane Mead July 25, 2019 The moon in the trees was a good moon, / The world in the sound-bite, a good world. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Epithalamion in the Field Poetry by I.S. Jones July 17, 2019 the red, wet animal in my chest throbs Your name. Bodies & Nature
Poetry How A Bird Dies Poetry by Háel Lopez, translated from the Spanish by Ariel Francisco June 20, 2019 Every bird should have the right / to never touch the ground Bodies & Nature