Poempoetry-magazineWork EthicBy Heidi WilliamsonYou’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…
Poempoetry-magazinePhysical EducationBy Joshua BennettFor the sake of argument, let’s saythe day my father outlawed all contactbetween backhand and face, …
Poempoetry-magazineThe Closet WeeperBy Mitchell GlazierStiletto melon collies, a tinsel mystic streaks our homeplace.Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…
PoemSix Reasons I Can't Answer the Door for Him at 3 in the MorningBy Sarah Carson The last man here wanted what could not be taken: My girl, he'd say, my baby. The narrow of his eyes…
PoemDon't TouchBy Sarah CarsonThe first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…
PoemLittle Red-Cap By Carol Ann DuffyAt childhood’s end, the houses petered outinto playing fields, the factory, allotmentskept, like mistresses…
Poempoetry-magazineClosets Are Made of Midwestern ThunderstormsBy Max FischerTaking off my clothes feels like peeling off parts of myself as if I’m a butterfly with its wings sheared…
Poempoetry-magazineLana Del Rey on Country RoadsBy Tamsin MooreLong, empty roads stretching as long as the gas tank is willing— Sixty-seven dollars left from last …
Poempoetry-magazineWanderlustBy Miguel A. Vega If, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse, every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…
PoemBeauty Secrets, Revealed by the Queen in Snow WhiteBy Natasha SajéDo for your neck what you do for your face.Face your neck whatever the case. Pace yourselffor 35-55,…
PoemThe Hero EmergesBy Lev RubinsteinTranslated By Tatiana Tulchinsky & Philip Metres1Well, what on earth is there to say? 2He knows something, but won’t tell. 3Who knows, maybe you’re …
PoemThe World Grows Blackthorn WallsBy Sholeh WolpéTall, stiff and spiny.Try to make it to the other sideand risk savage thorns.We who left home in our…
PoemThe SeedlingBy Paul Laurence DunbarAs a quiet little seedling Lay within its darksome bed,To itself it fell a-talking, And this is what…
PoemCyrus & the SnakesBy Ada LimónMy brother holds a snake by its head. The whole length of the snake is the length of my brother’s body. The snake’s head is held safely, securely, as if my brother is showing him something in the distant high grass. I...
PoemCalling Things What They AreBy Ada LimónI pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that...
Poem["As the sweet-apple"]By SapphoTranslated By Dan Beachy-QuickAs the sweet-apple reddens on the high branch,high on the highest branch, that the apple-pickers forgot…
PoemTotemBy R. L. SwihartThe young man says, “Alan can do anything he wants”“Not fly,” I sayThe young man returns a puzzled look…