Poetry Magazine

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

• Monstrance Man

Lisa Russ Spaar

• Temple You
• Temple On My Knees
• How I Might Sound if I Left Myself Alone

Sara Peters

• The Last Time I Slept in This Bed
• Rehearsal

Dan Beachy-Quick

• The Cricket and the Grasshopper
• From “Romanticisms”

Eliza Griswold

• Filicudi
• Sapphic Fragment
• Chicken Little In Love

Laura Morris

• Introduction

• Joan Mitchell and the art of painting a poem.

Bill Berkson

• Tiger, Tiger: A Few Days with Joan

• An artist who went "straight to the mark."

Marjorie Perloff

• Meditations in an Emergency

• The arresting restlessness of Joan Mitchell.

Joan Mitchell

• Autumn

John Yau

• Four Memories of Joan Mitchell

• Of laps and lapses.

Lydia Davis

• "Les Bluets," 1973

• A writer wrestles with a painting.

Nathan Kernan

• A Few Days

• After Joan Mitchell.

Paul Auster

• The Real Thing

• Joan Mitchell: The retinal, the lyrical, and the alcohol.

Michael Robbins

• Mimic Motion

• Michael Robbins on Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Jason Guriel

• The Spectric Poets

• Jason Guriel on Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan.

Laura Kasischke

• Useful Old Rhymer

• Laura Kasischke on Thomas Tusser.

Peter Campion

• Mad Tom

• Peter Campion on Tom O'Bedlam.

Daisy Fried

• Not Yet

• Daisy Fried on Kenneth Fearing.

Ange Mlinko

• Off Center

• Ange Mlinko on Lynette Roberts.

W. S. Di Piero

• Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness: A Notebook

• On music, myth, and shapely speech.

Conor O'Callaghan

• Letter to the Editor

Brian Rosson

• Letter to the Editor