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“Love Poem” (for Josh) [by Greg Griffith]
I hope your boyfrienddumps youaround the same time I get famous.While I am off blowing my MacArthur on deluxe espressosand rent in the East Village. I hope that my being famous brings this poem…
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Respect for Nature; Respect for Us [by Amanda J. Bradley]
Between recently moving to the country after twenty-three years of city apartment living and teaching a course last semester called Great Themes in Literature: Nature and the Environment, I’ve become a bit of an…
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“The Whole” [by Julie Levine]
You’re tired of subdividingeverything, breakingdown the whole soyou can better understandthe whole — no one caresabout the whole becauseno one can handle the whole.You are not a personbut a series of quarks,each tendon only…
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WCW’s “The Young Housewife” by Amanda J. Bradley
I’m a William Carlos Williams fan. “This Is Just to Say” is a favorite; “Danse Russe” is another. There’s much to love about his body of work as a whole. But the poem I…
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APIA Series: Tarfia Faizullah Poem and Interview [by Sally Wen Mao]
This is my sixth and final posting for the APIA Poetry and Interview Series. I am grateful to the Best American Poetry for offering this platform on your blog—thank you. I am ending with…
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Ann Kjellberg presents a poem by Glyn Maxwell
Ann Kjellberg, founding editor of Little Star, an annual journal of poetry and prose, and Little Star Weekly, its mobile app version, will be offering a poem every Sunday this spring. This is her sixth post.…
