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“Afterwords” (IM William Matthews) by Diann Blakely
Your latest postcard's glossy lupines spike In high-pitched hues: "powder puffs," you'd describe them If, between acts, we sipped red…
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“Vermin” by William Matthews
Vermin "What do you want to be when you grow up?"What child cries out, ‘An exterminator!’?One diligent student in Mrs. Taylor’s class will get an ant farm for Christmas, buthe’ll not see industry; he’ll…
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Poetry for the President [by Dean Rader]
In his op-ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week, Nicholas Kristof admitted that he would likey a little poetry: Please, Mr. Obama! The prose needn’t be as dry as the Harvard…
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Marcus Aurelius and More on Dapple [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Still giving a lot of thought to dapple. It has dawned on me that beyond the biology of aesthetics, the dapple is ample in meaning. It is a little madness of…
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Don’t Kill Yourself by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
SDH: I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of…
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Four Contemporary American Indian Poets You May Not Know But Should [by Dean Rader]
The work being done by a new generation of Native American poets is among the most exciting in American poetry. One of my favorite recent collections is Heid Erdrich's National Monuments. Her poem "The…
