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Poem
From the magazine:Strangers
Tremendous orange things are happening somewhere.
I lay a wooden stick for stirring on the white note
on the desk. I lay a stain on the clean note.
Somewhere things are happening. Marvelous orange
and purple things. Flooding rivers at dusk, wheels threading
roads in...
I lay a wooden stick for stirring on the white note
on the desk. I lay a stain on the clean note.
Somewhere things are happening. Marvelous orange
and purple things. Flooding rivers at dusk, wheels threading
roads in...
Poem
From the magazine:Le Tombeau des Lutteurs
It is a tragedy, yes, but a confusing one. What happened to the wrestlers and where have they gone? Loulou the Pomeranian would love to know. Outdoors the hills are buried in snow, but inside a rose, a rose full-blown,...

Table of Contents
POEMS
- Tom Pickard
- Christine Gosnay
- Kathleen Rooney
- Wendy Xu
- John Kinsella
- Thomas McCarthy
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Iain Britton
- Valerie Duff
- Brian Kim Stefans
- Kiki Petrosino
- Jane Hirshfield
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Honor Moore
The golden shovel
- Don Share
- Tracy K. Smith
- Diane Seuss
- Fanny Howe
- Philip Levine
- Danez Smith
- Al Young
- Rita Dove
- Asia Calcagno
- Quraysh Ali Lansana
- Natalie Rose Richardson
- Jake Adam York
- Adrian Matejka
- Gregory Pardlo
- Sharon Olds
- Alberto Ríos
- Malika Booker
- Yona Harvey
- Joy Harjo
- Nick Flynn
- Pascale Petit
- Patricia Smith
comment
- Vidyan Ravinthiran
- Donald Revell
CONTRIBUTORS
- Malika Booker
- Iain Britton
- Asia Calcagno
- Rita Dove
- Valerie Duff
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Nick Flynn
- Christine Gosnay
- Joy Harjo
- Yona Harvey
- Jane Hirshfield
- Fanny Howe
- John Kinsella
- Quraysh Ali Lansana
- Philip Levine
- Adrian Matejka
- Thomas McCarthy
- Honor Moore
- Sharon Olds
- Gregory Pardlo
- Pascale Petit
- Kiki Petrosino
- Tom Pickard
- Vidyan Ravinthiran
- Donald Revell
- Natalie Rose Richardson
- Kathleen Rooney
- Alberto Ríos
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Diane Seuss
- Don Share
- Tracy K. Smith
- Danez Smith
- Patricia Smith
- Brian Kim Stefans
- Wendy Xu
- Jake Adam York
- Al Young