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