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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCircus

    By Nakahara Chūya
    Translated By Jeffrey Angles
    There have been so many eras
            So many wars fought in brown

    There have been so many eras
            So many quick …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Children’s Story

    By Paula Bohince
    Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
    It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineJanuary 31

    By Jesse Nathan
    In front of thousands on a Sunday
    the Pope at the Vatican released two doves.
    He rang a bell, sang Hail…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Star

    By Dorothea Lasky
    Helen Frankenthaler is an evil eye
    I put her behind me
    And hoped for the best
    Even she knew
    I was lying
    Lying…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineサーカス

    By Nakahara Chūya
    幾時代かがありまして
            茶色い戦争ありました

    幾時代かがありまして
            冬は疾風吹きました

    幾時代かがありまして
            今夜此処での一と殷盛り
                    今夜此処での一と殷盛り

    サーカス小屋は高い梁
            そこに一つのブランコだ
    見える…
  • Audio
    By Dorothea Lasky
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    A.E. Stallings on shipwrecks, daylight robbery, and the air in 19th century Athens. 
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Gazing Ball

    By Mitchell Glazier
    Queenly swans nudge eternity figs
    Yellow rose fire

    Lit by a ghost breath
    I’ve eaten you someplace before…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOrfeo

    By Dan Beachy-Quick
    I created more loss where I meant to make less.
    Created more debt where I meant to make depth.
    Created…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineInfinity Pool

    By Vona Groarke
    I had it in the night, the image,
    but lacked the energy or will
    to magic my body through
    my own fourth …
  • Audio
    By Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Poem
    By Rainer Maria Rilke
    Translated By Stephen Mitchell
    We cannot know his legendary head
    with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
    is still suffused with…
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