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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMemorial Day

    By Aaron Shurin
    And still one looks to the tree to paraphrase the sky, arbiter of wind and sun. The hills with their…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineAs Bee

    By Paula Bohince
    Forgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
    of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBirdsong of Shaker Way

    By Ann-Margaret Lim
    Every day is perfect, if
    when you wake, you hear birds
    in the garden, in the yard. Birds

    up and down, ushering…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineResignation

    By Alice Pettway
    The dry stubble of the field
    wilts under the rain,
                        soft as jaw hair

    under a hot towel. The summer
    is a …
  • Audio
    By Paula Bohince
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine贺新郎

    By Xin Qiji
    甚矣吾衰矣。
    怅平⽣、交游零落,只今余⼏!
    ⽩发空垂三千丈,⼀笑⼈间万事。
    问何物、能令公喜?
    我见青⼭多妩媚,料青⼭见我应如是。
    情与貌,略相似。

    ⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
    想渊明、《停云》诗就,此时风味。
    江左沉酣求名者…
  • Poem
    By Kate Partridge
    I don’t want to get emails from
                the wolf people anymore, but
    they know where I am—have known
                precisely…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOn Intimacy

    By Omotara James
    When we meet at the holiday table, we take turns
    and great pains not to remind each other
    of our mutual…
  • Poem
    By Xin Qiji
    Translated By Shangyang Fang
    to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…
  • Poem
    By Brittany Perham
    We take the N out to the turnaround.
    The only thing to come now is the sea.
    The ice plants make the pink…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSky Glee

    By Jane Flett
    Last night, at the excavation: pig wine & a searchlight moon. We watched seven equidistant stars make…
  • Poem
    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Translated By Chun Yu
    I pay.
    In dream: Susie’s medical bill.
    For real: Moana bar tab.

    我付款。
    夢中:蘇西的醫療費。
    現實:莫阿娜酒吧賬。
     






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