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Toward “Wife Studies” [by David Lehman]
Cheers [on New Year's] A couple of tears ago I invented a form without being quite aware of it. I wrote a poem consisting mostly of lines lifted from other sources with exactly one…
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Drinking With Grad Students [by James Cummins]
You have to let these poets, half your age,have every way with you they hanker for–like stuff you in a bamboo tiger cage,or stomp your eyeballs on the barroom floor.The beer helps them imagine…
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Ann Kjellberg Presents a Poem by the late Jean Valentine
Hospice I wore his hatas if it was the rumpled coatof his body, like I could put it on. The coat of his hair, of his brain, its glitterhe gave it to me, something…
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“Tenderly” [by Angela Sundtsrom]
Fuck me now in pale-fireparking garages, againstU-haul trucks and trellisedfences that tread-mark skin,against Victorian lamppoststhat lull with their flicker,on grated sidewalks, sideways,upside down in Ferris wheels inreverse in the backseat of theBuick accelerating exponentiallybetween…
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“The Inventors” [by Jim Dolot]
The man who invented spitting,Archimandrus of Boeotia,Was otherwise undistinguished,And tends to be underrated and overlookedBecause of his contemporary, Thespis,Who invented the drama, and Gogulus,Who invented existentialism.This is how it happened.There was a drought, and…
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Traces [by Lera Auerbach]
Untitled – Ink on Handmade Paper by Lera Auerbach 1. When I think of my Great Aunt Rosa, I hear her laughter – deep chuckles rising from the belly of the Earth and exploding…
