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 C.X. Hua 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
Poetry Practice Poetry by Jane Hirshfield June 12, 2019 Bystander, listener. One of the lucky. / I do not seem to grow stronger. Politics
Poetry Dream Seminar Poetry by Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by Patty Crane May 22, 2019 Every dream is crowded with faces and bodies— / there are more dreamed people than there are us. Bodies & Nature
Poetry A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes Poetry by Kemi Alabi May 8, 2019 Yes / body, you are owed a whole lake. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Shadow of the Colossus Poetry by Michael Marberry April 18, 2019 We were made to suffer. Mostly, / the man you love doesn’t know you Family & Relationships
Poetry Frieze Poetry by Erin Elizabeth Smith April 11, 2019 And I don't know then / how to disappear enough / for neither of us to see me Bodies & Nature
Poetry Ontological Poetry by Peter Cooley March 27, 2019 I am the name behind the names, remembering / my origins at the formation of the world. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Phantom Poetry by Tomasz Różycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal March 13, 2019 each of us still carries / a hole for you inside our hearts Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Auto-Immune By Destiny Birdsong February 27, 2019 I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Swimming Pool Poetry by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry February 18, 2019 I accept everything. I renounce everything. / I sink into everything, clothed only in a wet beard. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry The Hang-Up By Justin Phillip Reed January 24, 2019 Waiting had also promised to end me, / but daily, and starting with the innermost parts.
Poetry The Meal Poetry by Gemma Gorga, translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin January 10, 2019 death reviews the menu for the umpteenth time, / repeats our names between its teeth Bodies & Nature
Poetry /ˈməT͟Hər/ Poetry by Tiana Nobile December 21, 2018 We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Blind River Poetry by Diane Mehta December 13, 2018 We have long ties to sunlight, / equations that always solve for equality. Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Weight of the Sun Poetry by Charlotte Pence November 21, 2018 I like being / reminded that we all began in dark and stars Bodies & Nature
Poetry River By Amy Roa November 14, 2018 Then one of them kissed a live, flopping catfish and said it was her husband now. Bodies & Nature
Poetry Little Mouse Poetry by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Daniele Pantano October 18, 2018 I stood still and said: What is this? / Why do you lie here so quietly? Bodies & Nature
Poetry Bloodlines Poetry by David Schaefer October 11, 2018 I have given nothing I would not give again. USA
Poetry The Stone in the River Poetry by José Watanabe, translated from the Spanish by Michelle Har Kim October 1, 2018 When we rose up from the murky water / we'd scale it like lizards. Bodies & Nature
Poetry After Kaddish Poetry by Nathalie Handal September 27, 2018 Skeletons in our minds, it’s a private grief, a private grief, you hear. Family & RelationshipsReligion
Poetry Highlands Poetry by Fatema Roshan, translated from the Persian by Farzana Marie September 6, 2018 Oh, uncles, / what zealous men you are! Bodies & Nature
Poetry Identity Theft Poetry by Daniel Borzutzky August 10, 2018 My eyes and lips and hair and face will rot in the river / And I will be carried away by vultures / To the corporate headquarters of Bank of America Work & Money
Poetry the last prayer Poetry by Chibụìhè Obi July 23, 2018 i asked this of shame / be a stranger Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation Poetry by Rosebud Ben-Oni June 25, 2018 One simulation to another, am I wrong. Bodies & NatureTechnology & the Future
Poetry Eye Bank Poetry by Ahmad Faraz, translated from Urdu by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb June 6, 2018 Tell them come take my eyes / Before my body gives out Bodies & NatureConflict
AudioPoetry you’ve always been a border simulator Poetry by Gabriel Dozal May 7, 2018 you have trouble saying your name and you say it anyway Deserts ConflictTechnology & the Future
Poetry XV Poetry by Julio Serrano Echeverría, translated from the Spanish by José García Escobar May 7, 2018 it was near this piece of ocean bed / where their whale ancestors dealt out the sea / as if they were gambling. Deserts Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry [My cadastre of flesh] By Khal Torabully, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson April 30, 2018 My cadastre of flesh / dissects me right to the bone Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Edge of the Wild Poetry by Leah Umansky April 4, 2018 I am so afraid of being troubled and alone at the end of this world Bodies & Nature
Poetry We Should Recount Something Says the Patriarch By Greta Montero, translated from the Spanish by Robert Keiser March 23, 2018 Sometimes what happens is the waves / fling themselves on the beach without spectators Americas
AudioPoetry History By Melissa Ginsburg March 9, 2018 We kept the kills quiet / amid rows of pale clover Bodies & NatureConflict
AudioPoetry Some Call It Bounty Poetry by Alexa Doran February 28, 2018 Before you were born I binge-watched Hoarders. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry To the Littlest Brother Poetry by Tarfia Faizullah February 16, 2018 listen, the ache of a sister for a brother / isn’t obvious ConflictFamily & Relationships
AudioPoetry Rooms Poetry by Rewa Zeinati January 19, 2018 We used to think that refugees / were of one kind / and we never knew / that we were too. Conflict
AudioPoetry Notes on Inheritance Poetry by Chelsea Dingman January 12, 2018 I stretch my neck into the next life. Bodies & NatureGender
AudioPoetry An Iranian Rat Prepares for Space Flight Poetry by Robin LaMer Rahija January 8, 2018 I have no name unless I make / it back alive Climate & EnvironmentTechnology & the Future
AudioPoetry At Mercier Orchards Poetry by James Davis May December 15, 2017 we believe in ourselves / more than we believe in anything else Conflict
AudioPoetry Where Papi’s Angel Speaks to Me About Love Poetry by Willy Palomo November 29, 2017 mijo—i know you have seen the night / as an excuse to hold your body like a bottle Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry The last dog in the world Poetry by Sarah Messer November 15, 2017 What are days? Just him and / the left-over spiders. Climate & EnvironmentPoliticsTechnology & the Future
AudioPoetry On a Lamp Post Long Ago By Ada Limón October 11, 2017 in case we have forgotten the word love, we will know its symbol
AudioPoetry I Give You My Heart/Os doy mi corazón By Ricardo Alberto Maldonado October 10, 2017 A poem for Puerto Rico. Climate & EnvironmentUSA
AudioPoetry Je Suis Sally Poetry by Chet’la Sebree September 27, 2017 "I am black wench, / wench Sally, African Venus, Sarah Hemings"
Poetry Psalm of the Fire Starter Poetry by Gabriella R. Tallmadge September 20, 2017 "I fled to oceans, I wandered / and found flesh— / some to eat, some to undress." Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry After Dinner By Sasha Pimentel August 21, 2017 The serrated are only / for dining, the curved ones for husking / muscle from the bone Conflict
Poetry Lamentation I By Úrsula Starke, translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Simkins August 14, 2017 Time aches, / horizons wound, light stabs—there’s room for it / all, missy.
AudioPoetry Black stars fill up black sky— By Dawn Lundy Martin July 24, 2017 When the opal stone appears, I’ll lean into it. But terror is a runaway train.
AudioPoetry The Dead Woman By Michael Bazzett July 17, 2017 This is how we knew she had / already died at least once. Bodies & Nature
Poetry [to lick the skin of the water with a tongue] By Marie-Andrée Gill, translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller June 26, 2017 how to augur anything / but crooked miracles / anyway Bodies & Nature
Poetry King Vultures By Pascale Petit June 12, 2017 Here comes the hard part, the Land of the Dead / floating just above my head Bodies & NatureFamily & RelationshipsGender
AudioPoetry Subterfuge By Mai Der Vang May 22, 2017 Maybe you spiked the dirt / With your snare of shivers. Conflict
Poetry The Glass Door By Max Ritvo May 8, 2017 Somebody guessed just what life was like, / and then made a pill for it. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry With Love and Love and Rage and Love By Stephanie Anderson April 24, 2017 On the map, great gasps / of land are already gone.
Poetry All-Purpose Elegy By Paul Guest April 10, 2017 For ashes. For the wind. / For this emergency we call life. Bodies & NatureClimate & Environment
AudioPoetry The Song of Empty Rooms By Wale Owoade March 27, 2017 Your voice is my favorite album, / you left but your bones are still here. Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Oasis By Beth Bachmann March 13, 2017 We want what God wants: to be pure. Bodies & NatureClimate & EnvironmentReligion
Poetry TIME GRAVE By Patty Yumi Cottrell February 20, 2017 For breakfast I ask for a fine blue world The Future of the Body Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Land of Uz By Ejiọfọr Ugwu February 13, 2017 I have no debt to the worms except / wads of silk. Bodies & NatureConflict
AudioPoetry Number Love, My Taxes By Alicia Mountain January 23, 2017 how we are so many dependents, / how one headlight will do for now Bodies & NatureFamily & RelationshipsWork & Money
AudioPoetry Hive By M'Bilia Meekers January 9, 2017 My name // came reeling towards me from a net / of insects that said it was your mouth. AfricaConflictFamily & Relationships