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March 19, 2010: "Ilona's Eyelids" by Eileen G’Sell "A fondness for the concept of holy water...."
March 18, 2010: "Asphodel" by Angela Vogel "Hi, I’m Asphodel, the flower of hell..."
March 17, 2010: "Skandha" by Michael Meyerhofer "You nurse the origami of your theory..."
March 16, 2010: "Southhampton turned Suffer into Suffolk" by y madrone "how that man Nat took a legacy...."
March 15, 2010: "Key" by Miles Waggener "Consider from the door..."
March 14, 2010: "The Leisure Class" by Robert Avery "There's nothing demands we hoe..."
March 13, 2010: "Woodpecker" by Harry Bauld "To dig an inch he bangs..."
March 12, 2010: "Not Yet" by Ben Howard "Give me, if you will, a little time..."
March 11, 2010: "Rites to Allay the Dead" by Amit Majmudar "It is never enough to close their door...."
March 10, 2010: "Let Me Explain" by Dora Malech "Spring, and the tulips urged me..."
March 9, 2010: "Love Letter Written While Speeding Past the City Limit Sign" by Carrie Jerrell "Four summer months of third-shift factory eyes..."
March 8, 2010: "Still and All" by James Galvin "A moist spring evening lowers itself..."
March 7, 2010: "Last Will" by Hayden Saunier "When I am ash, as is my wish..."
March 6, 2010: "Seeds and Seeding" by Nathaniel Perry "We're shaking seeds into their furrows..."
March 4, 2010: "Outside Consultant" by Cathryn Essinger "He walks in, sits down, tucks his tail fin..."
March 3, 2010: "Aviary" by Michael Leong "The box's safe: the cockatoo must be singing...."
March 2, 2010: "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker "I know I've explained how..."
March 1, 2010: "White Live Doves for Funerals" by Sarah Barber "According to Birds of North America..."
February 28, 2010: "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood "Two men are as one, or they are a single..."
February 27, 2010: "Zero" by George Bilgere "First it was five above, then two..."
February 26, 2010: "(it was so hot...)" by Matthew Guenette "It was so hot..."
February 25, 2010: "Blót" by A. E. Watkins "The boulders like god-fists littering stubble-fields in March...."
February 24, 2010: "Comfort, Cape Henlopen" by JoAnn Balingit "As the moon set I saw a big toad smashed in the road, entrails popped from its side...."
February 23, 2010: "Natural History" by Michael Dumanis "I'm fully posable, a leather and clay creature..."
February 22, 2010: "A Tenderness Like Knives" by Lance Larsen "Beside the cottage, a forest she no longer wanders...."
February 21, 2010: "The Disciples of Winter" by Stephanie McKenzie "Grace must wander even with the lonely sight of crows..."
February 20, 2010: "Contrast" by Jericho Brown "I want to relax, but it's April...."
February 19, 2010: "Pulling off the Highway on the Way to a Deathbed to Visit a Workhorse at Rest" by Frannie Lindsay "We are no more..."
February 18, 2010: "Woodpecker" by Christine Rhein "Again he startles me..."
February 17, 2010: "The Rooster" by Shane Seely "His frowning beak, his fleck-of-granite eye...."
February 16, 2010: "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins "A paradise forecloses once an aperture—no narrative but trees..."
February 15, 2010: "Splitting the Distance, an advanced application of Goldbach's Conjecture:" by Michele Battiste "every number greater..."
February 14, 2010: "Empty Spaces" by Brenda Cárdenas "She is a switchblade afraid of the hint in a two-second glint that..."
February 13, 2010: "Musing the Obscure" by Charles Simic "What do these mutts barking in unison..."
February 12, 2010: "Grace" by Jason Tandon "Beneath a sapling cypress, Buddha floats..."
February 11, 2010: "News" by Austin Straus "Red/yellow/purple petals..."
February 10, 2010: "A Mid-Wife's Late Sabbatical" by Peter Richardson "Say tilted fields run up shadowed valleys..."
February 9, 2010: "Choke" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz "Winter overstayed its dumb welcome...."
February 8, 2010: "Praise Nothing" by Joshua Robbins "April's cold snap..."
February 7, 2010: "Sacrament of the Moths" by Penelope Scambly Schott "Dust from a moth's wing is lint from a prayer...."
February 6, 2010: "Aubade" by H. Palmer Hall "Listen, I've never really understood..."
February 5, 2010: "Little Wing" by Kelle Groom "Charles decorated Nagasaki with cut petals, thousands..."
February 4, 2010: "Because the Body is Made of Water" by Ephraim Scott Sommers "A thimble full of moonlight..."
February 3, 2010: "Waking Up at the Wheel" by Christopher Kennedy "I woke up behind the wheel and told my wife I had been talking to Good..."
February 2, 2010: "Maimonides on What Is Meant by 'Vision'" by Benjamin Paloff "Nothing ever comes true. Not the future of the American kitchenette..."
February 1, 2010: "Read 'The World'" by Genine Lentine "For [you], I cast [the world]..."
January 31, 2010: "The Short Walk" by Rich Levy "As you lug your groceries and books..."
January 30, 2010: "Indian Summer" by Judith Skillman "The sun rests on its stem..."
January 29, 2010: "Foreshadow From Buffalo" by Dana Elkun "This beast begins with abundance..."
January 28, 2010: "Before the Ship Arrives" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou "Night and the wait is long...."
January 27, 2010: "Tails" by Maxine Kumin "Weekly we tried a different remedy..."
January 26, 2010: "Ice Out" by Connie Wanek "The south wind discovers a loose thread..."
January 25, 2010: "String Theory" by Ronald Wallace "I have to believe a Beethoven..."
January 24, 2010: "Labor Day Weekend" by Emily Elizabeth Schulten "I sat in the stern, so you..."
January 23, 2010: "Hunger Artist" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas "I believe I could have saved him...."
January 22, 2010: "Green-Striped Melons" and "Bamboo" by Jane Hirshfield "They lie..."
January 21, 2010: "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
January 20, 2010: "Teleidoscope" by Sarah O'Brien "Say sun, say feather, say here. The whole..."
January 19, 2010: "Target" by Jason Koo "Today I'm thinking of all the people not in love: I'm with you!..."
January 18, 2010: "Earth and Sky" by Read Blinn "Of all things contained here..."
January 17, 2010: "Alfoxden: Dorothy Wordsworth, 1798" by Rebecca Dunham "Always we walk to, a great part of the way...."
January 16, 2010: "Before Her Death" by Maurya Simon "Yearly, the slug crisscrosses his own tearstains..."
January 15, 2010: "His Other Car Was a Train" by Nance Van Winckel "My tapping for him..."
January 14, 2010: "Diagnosis" by Brent Armendinger "What a hidden memory is electricity..."
January 13, 2010: "Monkey Heart" by Ben Mirov "Pick, it up...."
January 12, 2010: "Chinook" by Geraldine Connolly "Come January, let winter unweave..."
January 11, 2010: "With the Herd" by James Najarian "Late in the afternoon, the goats ascend..."
January 10, 2010: "First Blood" by Jean Hollander "After the fall when snake..."
January 9, 2010: "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang "Spot is under the flap. Tom is..."
January 8, 2010: "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges "Out back between the marvelous..."
January 7, 2010: "Paul Celan's Ashes" by Ray Gonzalez "Here is the hand in its shade of absolute..."
January 6, 2010: "Kissing the Throat of True Love" by Alan Britt "The funny thing about true love..."
January 5, 2010: "Burial" by Matt Jasper "She whispers—The ocean..."
January 4, 2010: "Love Poem with Exiles" by Octavio Quintanilla "The dogs are mute and wait for daybreak...."
January 3, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite): "Animal Lover" by Terese Svoboda "A horse rises in a balloon..."
January 2, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite): "Ebb" by Martha Zweig "In my good night's..."
January 1, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite): "The Widdershins Garden" by Olivia Clare "Blink, the sunglint flies..."
December 31, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite): "Jellyfish" by George David Clark "The dark sea dreams them...."
December 30, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite): "Nest" by Katy Didden "Yellow bill, deft needle..."
December 29, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite): "[The night was animal]" by Claire Hero "The night was animal, was owlmaw..."
December 28, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite): "Still as in a Still after Still" by Mary Jo Bang "How-then-why is charted like a map is a chart..."
December 27, 2009: "Caisson" by Carol Quinn "That we might be rootless, ruthless, industrious, dust..."
December 26, 2009: "Coos Bay" by Sid Miller "The paint in the back alley spells out..."
December 25, 2009: "To Mindless Forces" by K.A. Hays "who tumble..."
December 24, 2009: "Untitled" by Andrew Zawacki "Or the dance we do is..."
December 23, 2009: "Untitled" by Hans Carl Artmann (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop) "hocus pocus..."
December 22, 2009: "Beginning with Two Lines from Kenneth Rexroth" by Ray Gonzalez "I see the unwritten books, the unrecorded experiments, the unpainted..."
December 21, 2009: "Fall Grapes" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou "We didn't know the acrid scent of trodden grapes..."
December 20, 2009: "State of a Nation" by Amy King "The actor is a second life..."
December 19, 2009: "Mr. Nobody Speaks to His Voice" by Emmanuel Moses (translated by Marilyn Hacker) "Voice, you sprouted like a shrub..."
December 18, 2009: "Sparrows: For Gerald Stern" by Campbell McGrath "Mexican sparrows picking at seeds..."
December 17, 2009: "Illustrating" by Joshua Poteat "I see fireflies as perforations, the meadow..."
December 16, 2009: "Ode to the Chameleon" by Yusef Komunyakaa "Little shape shifter, lingering..."
December 15, 2009: "The Opening" by Philip Schultz "Everyone arrives later than everyone else..."
December 14, 2009: "The Bird of God" by Robin Ekiss "Tutankhamen's ebony bed..."
December 13, 2009: "The Underworld" by Sharon Bryan "When I lived in the foothills..."
December 12, 2009: [Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny.] by Ron Koertge "Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny...."
December 11, 2009: "Crows" by Jeff Friedman "You came with your dark hats..."
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley "We all went in a yellow school bus..."
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson "what can you suppose I want from you?..."
December 8, 2009: "Bioluminescence" by Lee Ann Roripaugh "The eggs burn softly..."
December 7, 2009: "Julbilate" by William Notter "Now I will consider my purple Plymouth Duster...."
December 6, 2009: "Gnosticism as a Modern Construct" by Marc J. Sheehan "Late one afternoon, we watched the dragonflies..."
December 5, 2009: "Night Garden" by T. J. Anderson III "In the garden there is a row of dahlias..."
December 4, 2009: "Creation Myth" by Mathias Svalina "In the beginning everyone looked like Larry Bird..."
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg "All the space around me..."
December 2, 2009: "Trembling on the Brink of a Mesquite Tree" by Brynn Saito "And the Lord said Surprise me, so I moved to LA...."
December 1, 2009: "Former Automotive Plant" by Allison Titus "What poor moon deserves this night..."
November 30, 2009: "Supplicant" by CE Perry "Give the doe that extra..."
November 29, 2009: "[my mind grew quiet]" by Jehanne Dubrow "My mind grew quiet..."
November 28, 2009: "Winter's Tale" by Pamela Harrison "Until today, I never got the logic..."
November 27, 2009: "Paradiso I 54-63" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky "I fixed my eyes on the sun-beyond our ways..."
November 26, 2009: "I Never Intend To, How 'Bout You?" by Christopher Citro "It's eight o'clock. Time to plug the ladder in. I love our new..."
November 25, 2009: "Fragile" by Jenny Hanning "At the Children's Museum they collect pennies in a penny pit. It..."
November 24, 2009: "Structure of Houses" by Allen Strous "Something stared at..."
November 23, 2009: "My Sister Was a Chair" by Jorn Ake "I was the monkey in pieces..."
November 22, 2009: "Journey" by Linda Annas Ferguson "I see the world from behind two blades..."
November 21, 2009: "Leaves/Tongues" by Molly Bendall & Gail Wronsky "Let me be "straight"..."
November 20, 2009: "Secret Sonnet For The Cockroach" by Alex Grant "They live without their bodies for a week..."
November 19, 2009: "Point of View" by Richard Jackson "While his memories pace back and forth like expectant..."
November 18, 2009: "An Interruption" by Karen Kevorkian "A black cat appeared against a smooth adobe wall in a break..."
November 17, 2009: "Postscript: Autobiographical" by Ed Skoog "I rode my bike across the Argentine...."
November 16, 2009: "I Show Up Twelve Years Late For Curfew" by Karyna McGlynn "I appear cold, muddy, unstable in the foyer...."
November 15, 2009: "Hope" by Daniel Donaghy "I'm thinking again of Pandora..."
November 14, 2009: "Epigenesis" by Joseph Bathanti "The moon leavens...."
November 13, 2009: "County Fair" by Terri Kirby Erickson "Pulled like rotten teeth from the open mouths..."
November 12, 2009: "Hedgerow after Roadwork" by Eamon Grennan "What was the ragged hedgerow of sally trees..."
November 11, 2009: "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch "In the rented performance space..."
November 10, 2009: "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes "Why we resist coming after, coming second, coming late..."
November 9, 2009: "Days Like This Are Necessary" by Walter Bargen "Fifteen men, the beginning of a pirate's song..."
November 8, 2009: "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis "When they ask me can they just be honest..."
November 7, 2009: "The Religion of Birds" by Megan O'Reilly Green "Everywhere people are mad for miracles...."
November 6, 2009: "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn "My oracles of icicles and snow..."
November 5, 2009: "Still Life, with Drawing" by G. C. Waldrep "The drawing of a bird draws..."
November 4, 2009: "An Underworldliness" by Heather McHugh "Maybe a maker makes..."
November 3, 2009: "In a Dark Time Together" by Mary Ann Samyn "All day I say every blessings I can think of...."
November 2, 2009: "City Beach" by Dora Malech "Your mouth said so long from so long said high..."
November 1, 2009: "Love is When a Boat is Built From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean" by Zachary Schomburg "When the bats..."
October 31, 2009: "The Tortoise Survives the Fire" by Lisa Allen Ortiz "He's at my friend's house now...."
October 30, 2009: "The Clock of the Long Now" by Marion Boyer "No wonder Einstein was mad for light...."
October 29, 2009: "Wonder" by Kascha Semonovitch "Let me speak to you of the strange...."
October 28, 2009: "Sweetlips and Spangled Emperors" by Mark Bibbins "We lost the change that looking..."
October 27, 2009: "Folding the Fitted Sheet" by A.V. Christie "There is a way to do this...."
October 26, 2009: "In England Again after Years Away" by Lois Williams "Because tonight is warm..."
October 25, 2009: "Confession of the Oak Tree" by Alice Pettway "I would shed my leaves in an instant..."
October 24, 2009: "The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start" by Charles Harper Webb "when, in the first movement of the Emperor Concerto..."
October 23, 2009: "To Leuconoë" by Erica McAlpine "You should not ask..."
October 22, 2009: "After Baby After Baby" by Rachel Zucker "When we made love you had..."
October 21, 2009: "Beat the Ranger" by Christopher DeWeese "I am from extremely real streets...."
October 20, 2009: "When We Decided to Build the Wall" by A.K. Scipioni "I want an olive tree...."
October 19, 2009: "Don't Say My Name" by Dara Wier "Skull, axis, kernel of focus..."
October 18, 2009: "The Multiple States of Matter" by Jenny Browne "If four legs make a desk, a friendship, a donkey..."
October 17, 2009: "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti" by Christopher Bakken "Far too quiet last night out on the street...."
October 16, 2009: "Suitor Underwater" by Molly McQuade "The giant prawn..."
October 15, 2009: "From As Complete As a Thought Can Be" by Adam Clay "Seven years into the longest..."
October 14, 2009: "Bluet" by Dan Chiasson "Flowers have faces. They are happy or sad...."
October 13, 2009: "The Ark in the Window" by Debora Greger "Forty days and forty nights, it rained...."
October 12, 2009: "A Cast of a Smokestack" by Adam Atkinson "It's the future, and there are future men..."
October 11, 2009: "Veni Vidi" by Chana Bloch "The world / is about to be created...."
October 10, 2009: "Little Fugue of Love and Death" by Richard Newman "The sky is gray. My joints are old...."
October 9, 2009: "Disappearing Act" by Jason Whitmarsh "As the milkmaids do it, with aplomb—no ersatz..."
October 8, 2009: "The Field Behind the Dying Father's House" by Linda Nemec Foster "I'm the thin yellow..."
October 7, 2009: "Around Killingsworth and Albina" by Sid Miller "Behind a dumpster in an alley lies an old copy..."
October 6, 2009: "Little Elegy (1977-1991)" by Claudia Keelan "The world was strong..."
October 5, 2009: "Mystery Beneath a Handprint of Light" by Beth Bachmann "In another rendering, the repetition might add up..."
October 4, 2009: "Particular Flight" by John Deming "The woman sweeping..."
October 3, 2009: "Animal Lover" by Terese Svoboda "A horse rises in a balloon..."
October 2, 2009: "Acknowledgment, 1964" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Could have gone west. Could have packed your things..."
October 1, 2009: "The Streets of My Heart" by Rhett Iseman Trull "What a display. The light chromed off the ornate lamps and signs..."
September 30, 2009: "Sleepwalking" by Frances Justine Post "It is a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush..."
September 29, 2009: "Bear" by Chad Sweeney "Monday on the way to work..."
September 28, 2009: "Doors without Locks and Other Entrances" by Timothy Henry "All seasons have a coda..."
September 27, 2009: "Moving into Night" by Mark Thalman "I walk down to the dock...."
September 26, 2009: "Homo Erectus Recalls the Better Days of Man" by Lynn Levin "I cast my gaze over the coarse grass...."
September 25, 2009: "Lilac Tree" by Andrew Sage "Everyone has a yellow swing..."
September 24, 2009: "The Human Experience" by Nick Courtright "But what is its rationale? See, earth has nothing to do..."
September 23, 2009: "Improveras, I Heart Abandonment" by Dannyka Taylor "I fond too late if the mother..."
September 22, 2009: "The Fear Was in the Northeast" by G. C. Waldrep "The fear was in the northeast...."
September 21, 2009: "My Fortune 500 Love Poem" by Rachel Contreni Flynn "Amid all the typical bullshit, the fake laughter, the trumped-up urgency..."
September 20, 2009: "Kentucky Derby Poem (2008)" by Liz Robbins "Eight Belles, the filly who snapped..."
September 19, 2009: "Ladder to the Moon" by X. J. Kennedy "If I had a ladder that reached to the moon..."
September 18, 2009: "Elmer Rice's 'The Adding Machine'" by Marvin Bell "The staging of clerks in green visors..."
September 17, 2009: "Girl in a Purple Dress" by Dorianne Laux "Riding her bike down Water Street..."
September 16, 2009: "Horizons" by Judy Little "let anywhere as all..."
September 15, 2009: "Hay Day" by Robert Wrigley "Beautiful, the fourteen-hundred-pound round..."
September 14, 2009: "13 Arkansas" by Stacy Kidd "Delta: the days don't bring you quicker. No..."
September 13, 2009: "While Refuged at Sophie's Cottage as Bombs Fall on London, Nina Hamnett Pens a Postcard to Wyndham Lewis" by Tom Holmes "Sophie collects new moons..."
September 12, 2009: "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea "I surrender myself to Charles Mingus. I'm spinning Tijuana Moods..."
September 11, 2009: "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull "Cosmonauts have nine lives, too. That is why we launch ourselves..."
September 10, 2009: "Destinations, VI." by Nick Courtright "Even after I died, I could not close my eyes..."
September 9, 2009: "Valle Vidal" by John Poch "Like a cutthroat..."
September 8, 2009: "I Trade My Family for Junk" by Travis Wayne Denton "The older I get, the more of my family..."
September 7, 2009: "Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter" by Anne McCrary Sullivan "My mother loves the salty mud of estuaries..."
September 6, 2009: "Vase with Autumn Asters" by Carol Dine "A shadow settles behind the vase..."
September 5, 2009: "Do the Right Thing" by Adrian Matejka "Spike Lee is so small I didn't even..."
September 4, 2009: "Emily, It's Better This Way" by Christopher Citro "They landed in the morning and nothing happened...."
September 3, 2009: "Past Bedtime" by Lesley Wheeler "Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said...."
September 2, 2009: "Your Leaving Vienna with the Hapsburgs" by Jason Spear "Just as the sun fell down, you slipped out behind the slinky cat. I think..."
September 1, 2009: "Evening at Home" by Arthur Madson "The eye that closes at dusk..."
August 31, 2009: "The Escape Artist in Winter" by Allison Funk "I'm under it again, that foot of ice...."
August 30, 2009: "Then" by Patricia Fargnoli "Then, he held me there as if stunned, the figure who had appeared saying..."
August 29, 2009: "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley "When fixed into my explanations this phrase..."
August 28, 2009: from Catabolism by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa "A body is not always everything we are taught..."
August 27, 2009: "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin "Even in these hostile times..."
August 26, 2009: "Dear P. XII" by Victoria Chang "When you fall onto the floor, your cry..."
August 25, 2009: "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" by Bob Hicok "Here is the place I am thinking..."
August 24, 2009: "Was to Have Been Called Whip-poor-will" by Lisa Olstein "Dog hears it..."
August 23, 2009: "A Letter to Serafin" by John Minczeski "Serafin, orphaned angel..."
August 22, 2009: "The Lovers at Eighty" by Marilyn L. Taylor "Fluted light from the window finds her..."
August 21, 2009: "Whippoorwill" by John Clarke "Dead leaf or whippoorwill? In a wood..."
August 20, 2009: "Green Heron" by Daniel Wolff "A little green in a fine mist...."
August 19, 2009: "Ebb" by Martha Zweig "In my good night's..."
August 18, 2009: "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin "Even in these hostile times..."
August 17, 2009: "[receding sphinx]" by Lisa Olstein "I'm working with a common family of flower feeders. Many..."
August 16, 2009: "Selfish" by Lesley Wheeler "When you are always right, it is hard to diet..."
August 15, 2009: "Orchard" by Noel Conneely "Between the red and the green..."
August 14, 2009: "If Palinurus" by Timothy O'Keefe "You put me here...."
August 13, 2009: "Lifeguards" by William Greenway "You either have one..."
August 12, 2009: "Valentine" by Kiki Petrosino "Today I got rejected from the Bible...."
August 11, 2009: "Shark" by Heather Hamilton "In the thick dark I nose..."
August 10, 2009: "I Will Begin Tagging “Sad Robot Inc...." by Kate Angus "The ficus drapes its one long vine around..."
August 9, 2009: "Condemned" by Susanna Lang "Above the street, above this bungalow I've lived in since before my son could walk..."
August 8, 2009: "Astronaut" by Ulick O'Connor "For too long we had watched them fade, the flickering lights..."
August 7, 2009: "The Reclamation of Paradise" by Stephen Kampa "The butterflies' abrupt communiqué..."
August 6, 2009: "The Somnabulist" by L.S. Klatt "When it happens, you're glad it's not you..."
August 5, 2009: "Gifts" by Eamon Grennan "Saphire, emerald, amethyst of..."
August 4, 2009: "Bartonsville" by Robert Gibb "Here in the first clear light..."
August 3, 2009: "Bernal Heights" by Cheryl Dumesnil "Knit cap rolled down to eyebrows, corduroys..."
August 2, 2009: "Asleep Then, Despite Color" by Carol Willette Bachofner "The elusiveness of grass, though we walk on it..."
August 1, 2009: "Kelp" by Paul Farley "A puppet forest has gone to wrack..."
July 31, 2009: "Still as in a Still after Still" by Mary Jo Bang "How-then-why is charted like a map is a chart..."
July 30, 2009: "The Sumerians" by James Doyle "built a suburb of stepped towers..."
July 29, 2009: "The Velocity of Love" by Kate Gleason "On the scale we're now talking..."
July 28, 2009: "Tale" by Anna Lowe "The book say go. Go feed..."
July 27, 2009: "Dust" by Deborah Warren "So what? Even if the whole thing's doomed..."
July 26, 2009: "Dust" by Ravi Shankar "Congregated in loops of dirt and hair..."
July 25, 2009: "Love After Lovely Leaves" by Andrew McCarron "The problem of pathos must be..."
July 24, 2009: "Then From Our Green Branch" by Oni Buchanan "then the "safety net" they held..."
July 23, 2009: "Bottomlands Tongue" by Doug Ramspeck "And so the burning of this sun beside the pickerelweeds..."
July 22, 2009: "Three in a Maze and a Monster (Vertigo)" by Lesley Jenike "Directed to take in with her eyes the whole..."
July 21, 2009: "A Personal Matter (1987)" by Lisa Sewell "The first suggestion comes in sleep..."
July 20, 2009: "These Gods are Known by the Shapes of Their Teeth" by John M. Anderson "Spade-tooth, coil and axle-tooth...."
July 19, 2009: "Eve, Seducing the Apple" by Kathleen Winter "You extraordinary apple, Consciousness..."
July 18, 2009: "Power Line" by Arthur Sze "As light runs along the length of power lines..."
July 17, 2009: "California" by Jen Denrow "Forget your life...."
July 16, 2009: "Mermaid in my Fish Bowl" by Doug Ramspeck "I would say she was no larger..."
July 15, 2009: "Anniversary" by Janine Oshiro "I fashioned an acre, made moderate..."
July 14, 2009: "[The night was animal]" by Claire Hero "The night was animal, was owlmaw..."
July 13, 2009: "Waking" by Mia Nussbaum "Through pool-light..."
July 12, 2009: "Wound" by Corinne Wohlford Taff "If I have loved, it is mostly..."
July 11, 2009: "Unburdening" by Octavio Quintanilla "I wait for you in a room..."
July 10, 2009: "Love Note" by E.G. Burrow "Clouds crash and boil up..."
July 9, 2009: "The Fox" by Dean Young "Remember trying to feed the fox?..."
July 8, 2009: "Of course, I told the women," by Stacy Kidd "the river was changeless and could not be wounded..."
July 7, 2009: "Foot Hounds" by Claudia Burbank "There are no bad dogs someone says..."
July 6, 2009: "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
July 4, 2009: "Deeply Impersonal" by Bob Hicok "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
July 3, 2009: "Millificent" by Emma Trelles "No one has entered..."
July 2, 2009: "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux "Let your mountainous forehead..."
July 1, 2009: "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer "No house of self, my little Matryona..."
June 30, 2009: "Inland Song" by Lesley Wheeler "In some kind houses the doors..."
June 29, 2009: "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young "Help me please breathe..."
June 28, 2009: "And the Cantilevered Inference Shall Hold the Day" by Michael Blumenthal "Things are not as they seem: the innuendo of everything makes..."
June 27, 2009: "Fracture" by Leslie Adams "I've seen already how I could hate your thin mouth..."
June 26, 2009: "After Whitman's 'There Was a Child Went Forth'" by Ralph Salisbury "The chilling shade and the albino dog..."
June 25, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn "By day, God how we hated them hanging there..."
June 24, 2009: "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson "On ghostly days..."
June 23, 2009: "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas "If we were meant to jump from airplanes..."
June 22, 2009: "A Dog in Hanoi" by Joseph Duemer "Maybe Ngoc Ha is nothing...."
June 21, 2009: "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser "The child has torn off the front of the parent...."
June 20, 2009: "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell "She wakes in Asia on Sunday, buses..."
June 19, 2009: "A Great Whirring" by Bruce Snider "A bird's cry cracks open the day..."
June 18, 2009: "It Is Virtually Without Thickness and Has Almost" by Angie Estes "no weight. If rubbed between forefinger..."
June 17, 2009: "This is Not About Pears" by Matthew Hittinger "Cézanne was wrong, or rather correct..."
June 16, 2009: "The Widdershins Garden" by Olivia Clare "Blink, the sunglint flies..."
June 15, 2009: "Diagnosing God" by Michael Meyerhofer "I wonder what phobia made God..."
June 14, 2009: "He Tells You About the Dress You Wore" by Debra Nystrom "Every few years he calls from..."
June 13, 2009: "Your Own Winnebago" by Sandra Simonds "There's a volcano in my Alaska, a Paris..."
June 12, 2009: "Treatment Options" by Bin Ramke "Inside, the palm and fingers..."
June 11, 2009: "Idiot Means Good Luck" by James Haug "Too bad the storm cellar could fit all of us..."
June 10, 2009: "After All This" by Richard Jackson "After all this love, after the birds rip like scissors..."
June 9, 2009: "'A line of hills'" by Donald Revell "A line of hills..."
June 8, 2009: "Surrender" by Dorianne Laux "Supine under branches..."
June 7, 2009: "Dancers" by Christopher Howell "The bee drifts from the lily and the lily fronds..."
June 6, 2009: "New World" by Jim Harrison "This moment says no to the next...."
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Wendy Barker "How I'd like to buy flowers, how I'd like to place a sterling..."
June 4, 2009: "First Date with a Dozer" by Victoria Boynton "D-8, you want me..."
June 3, 2009: "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic "It rains on the roof of the church, fat drops..."
June 2, 2009: "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins "I am going to sit down on a rock near some water..."
June 1, 2009: "Sasquatch" by Norman Dubie "I am not a costume..."
May 31, 2009: "Numbers" by Katharine Coles "They won't stick. They gleam like brilliantine...."
May 30, 2009: "The Terrible Poem" by Dara Wier "Love lives just sit there on the sidelines...."
May 29, 2009: "Without Us" by Joel Friederich "What if we'd left enduring..."
May 28, 2009: "The Match" by Carley Moore "At the stairs to the top of the volcano..."
May 27, 2009: "Dig" by Elizabeth Rees "The prospector hollered Go! and we raised our shovels..."
May 26, 2009: "asunder" by Craig Arnold "On the fire escape of your rented room..."
May 25, 2009: "Moving day" by Bob Hicok "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
May 24, 2009: "What Remains" by Juleta Severson-Baker "In an undertow of air my skin..."
May 23, 2009: "Labrador" by Brandi Homan "I still sleep with one arm..."
May 22, 2009: "Imperative" by Orlando White "Break a sentence; use letters for teeth...."
May 21, 2009: "Apples Are No Longer American. Nor Traffic." by Jennifer Kronovet "The gnats swarm..."
May 20, 2009: "Elmina" by David Mills "'Ghana’s, Gold Coast has now virtually changed..."
May 19, 2009: "Animal Planet" by Jim Natal "This is the hour of hyenas...."
May 18, 2009: "Cousins" by Debra Nystrom "Afternoons, Grandma sent us inside..."
May 17, 2009: "Autumn Thoughts on the East Fork" by Charles Wright "Daytime is boredom after awhile, I've come to find, and nighttime..."
May 16, 2009: "A Wave" by Stuart Dybek "gathers into a towering question..."
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson "I hate to say the spring. It's become..."
May 14, 2009: "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield "I had lived on this earth..."
May 13, 2009: "Thanksgiving" by Andrea Hollander Budy "Her voice has too much jewelry in it...."
May 12, 2009: "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio "The gods are rinsing their just-boiled pasta..."
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker "The most common cause of death is cars...."
May 10, 2009: "The Loneliness of Dogs" by Tim Mayo "About spelling the human masters..."
May 9, 2009: "Yellow Boat" by Kathleen Driskell "Lifted into dry dock, where the sun..."
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat "It seemed like suffering, or a lesser form of anguish..."
May 7, 2009: "Duly Noted" by John Gallaher "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
May 6, 2009: "Horse in Snow" by Pamela Porter "First, the nail-bitten fencepost..."
May 5, 2009: "Chicken Little" by Tiffany Atkinson "So I lift your dress..."
May 4, 2009: "And the Crow Makes Wing to the Rooky Wood" by Elizabeth Biller Chapman "Wings of moss, the fabric of this place where..."
May 3, 2009: "Theory of lost things" by Keetje Kuipers "Because loneliness and beauty are inseparable, one is often..."
May 2, 2009: "Preparedness" by Paul Willis "The earthquake prediction for California..."
May 1, 2009: "The New World Deli" by Bruce Cohen "At a cocktail party I met the actual guy who cloned sheep...."
April 30, 2009: "Cryptozoology" by Sherman Alexie "I saw a crow, with a row of blue feathers..."
April 29, 2009: "How We Fail to Envision the Dead" by Phebe Davidson "We rarely see him looking up..."
April 28, 2009: "Retrobulbar" by Laurie Clements Lambeth "as though the lesion somewhere behind the bulb..."
April 27, 2009: "They Dredge Up Visions" by Jennifer Kronovet "as if fires were always..."
April 26, 2009: "It Never Comes Easy" by Robert Parham "Theft never comes easy...."
April 25, 2009: "Oppenheimer Maps His Coordinates" by Cynthia Lowen "After so much time in the desert..."
April 24, 2009: "Self-Portrait as Zipper" by Courtney Queeney "I can't escape the parting..."
April 23, 2009: "Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Inferno)" by John Kinsella "Galahs and corellas comb the paddocks..."
April 22, 2009: "Y at the End of It" by Nancy Eimers "My neighbor Lee is calling her cat home again..."
April 21, 2009: "Free Period" by David Yezzi "Outside study hall..."
April 20, 2009: "Take Cover" by Angie Estes "and couvre feu, cover the fire..."
April 19, 2009: "Sunday Morning" by Kathryn Simmonds "Since I've stopped praying..."
April 18, 2009: "Isle Au Haut" by D. Nurkse "I spent that August in your mind..."
April 17, 2009: "Sand" by Bruce Bond "So many grains, so many little tombs..."
April 16, 2009: "South City" by Randall Mann "Even the pines are industrial-park green...."
April 15, 2009: "On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally" by Maggie Glover "My porch upon the cliff, my house upon the mountain..."
April 14, 2009: "Missed Connections" by Sherman Alexie "Descending, in our forty-seat airplane..."
April 13, 2009: "Inseminating the Elephant" by Lucia Perillo "The zoologists who came from Germany..."
April 12, 2009: "A Corpse of Vortices" by Tom Holmes "After they kill me..."
April 11, 2009: "There Were Horses" by Annie Lighthart "There were horses in all our days...."
April 10, 2009: "Elegy for My Sex Life" by Karen Kovacik "Goodbye, closing credits and kissing..."
April 9, 2009: "Humans" by Elizabeth Austen "the day begins in disarray..."
April 8, 2009: "Shell" by Joan Colby "Broken conch whitened and drilled with tiny holes..."
April 7, 2009: "The Crinolines" by Judith Skillman "In cages readied beside water..."
April 6, 2009: "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt "We have had our lives...."
April 5, 2009: "Monday" by Randall Mann "While you wait for the J train, for work, think..."
April 4, 2009: "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl "Lighthouses may well still be useful...."
April 3, 2009: "A History in Six Couplets" by Idra Novey "Called a bird, the distant..."
April 2, 2009: "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn "I was beautiful at a distance..."
April 1, 2009: "Scales of Little Wisdom" by Roberto Juarroz (translated by Mary Crow) "Scales of a little wisdom..."
March 31, 2009: "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker "This morning a child offered me water..."
March 30, 2009: "Hare" by Joseph Campana "Hare says Moon but Moon..."
March 29, 2009: "Mechanics of Early Autumn" by Helena Mesa "Migrant workers pick late tomatoes..."
March 28, 2009: "The Cow" by Adam Day "There I was, snagged in barbed-wire..."
March 27, 2009: "Idolum Naturae Magnum: A Meditation" by Sandra Meek "In space richBeautiful for its worldsthe immensity..."
March 26, 2009: "In The Woods" by James Doyle "The house wriggled gingerbread and cinnamon...."
March 25, 2009: "The Uses of Things" by Liz Waldner "When the stove clock hands sprawl..."
March 24, 2009: "confessions of a teenage drama queen " by D. A. Powell "I was a male war bride. I was a spy..."
March 23, 2009: "Larger Than Life" by Michelle Boisseau "And so it came to pass that the immortal..."
March 22, 2009: "The Ironer" by Allison Benis White "Obscene as the taste of blood and the closeness of her tongue..."
March 21, 2009: "Alcatraz, and Back" by Cody Walker "All I'm saying is this guy, this showbiz..."
March 20, 2009: "The Rescue" by Alison Stine "He brought birds, the man from the rescue..."
March 19, 2009: "Clouds" by Jason Bredle "That was the day..."
March 18, 2009: "How it Started" by Leslie Harrison "At the point you start throwing pebbles..."
March 17, 2009: "Threshold" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick "The jagged trail of pee..."
March 16, 2009: "Return as Black Currant" by Anna Journey "Because she bleeds dark jelly and French liqueur..."
March 15, 2009: "The Bull" by Stefi Weisburd "In the beginning, he enjoyed volume..."
March 14, 2009: "Wintering" by Kristin Bock "All night, hemlocks drop their cones on stone steps...."
March 12, 2009: "Since You've Gone" by Frank Gallimore "Let's not decorate it. Someone..."
March 11, 2009: "Your Picture" by Jean Valentine "Brown museum hair, brushed the way they brush it there..."
March 10, 2009: "Deer Poem" by Dennis Hinrichsen "So now the placement of the "I" to the edge of this field: two..."
March 9, 2009: "Diadem" by Kathy Fagan "When the moon assembles the stars on the blue baldachin..."
March 8, 2009: "Morning and Night" by Richard Lyons "It will be at least another hour before the sun comes up...."
March 7, 2009: "Rock Me, Mama" by Erica Dawson "I-65 has stalled. The spokes..."
March 6, 2009: "Tornado" by Nancy Cherry "In Oklahoma, there are windows without houses...."
March 5, 2009: "Game Night at the Deaf Club" by Frank Gallimore "Goodbyes flit from their hands as lights go..."
March 4, 2009: "L’art D’aimer" by Teresa Chuc Dowell "First are the songs a composition of whistles..."
March 3, 2009: "Dear Succubus" by Lee Upton "Ornery and ancient..."
March 2, 2009: "Jellyfish" by George David Clark "The dark sea dreams them...."
March 1, 2009: "Dropping Names" by Greg Delanty "To go unnoticed is good, though mostly we forget..."
February 28, 2009: "One Fish, Two Fish" by Erica Dawson "Downstairs, dolphins eat minnows, schoolgirls shriek..."
February 27, 2009: "Intelligent Design" by Richard Cecil "Before I bought my Code-a-Phone I wondered..."
February 26, 2009: "Legitimacy Is So Chummy" by J. P. Dancing Bear "First thing is: everyone presses the room...."
February 25, 2009: "Evening" by Steve Wilson "Foolish, to need when there is sky..."
February 24, 2009: "Self-Portrait with Taxidermy" by Oliver de la Paz "In my anatomy studies, I expected..."
February 23, 2009: "Dog Moon" by Dorianne Laux "The old dog next door won’t stop barking..."
February 22, 2009: "Personal" by Anthony Walton "Younger than you..."
February 21, 2009: "The Pencil" by Billy Collins "I held the pencil so lightly today..."
February 20, 2009: "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms "They'd settle in our living room, cross their legs—three or four uncles..."
February 19, 2009: "The Battle-Axe" by Melissa Range "Because not every yeoman can afford..."
February 18, 2009: "The Natural World" by Peter B. Hyland "One September the neighbor's terrier found a way..."
February 17, 2009: "Eurydice & Orpheus" by Mark Irwin "Long her darkness there, his turning head..."
February 16, 2009: "Palsy" by Bob Hicok "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
February 15, 2009: "Morning on the Moors" by Elizabeth Volpe "The cow's heavy head swings over the oat grass and thistle..."
February 14, 2009: "Advance Requiem for a Lovely Couple" by Elton Glaser "So Beauty's gone under the knife again..."
February 13, 2009: "Astrologia" by James Grabill "Earth jerks around the sun, blue Ford Galaxies..."
February 12, 2009: "Bookends" by Sandra Kohler "Walking along the river after a month’s..."
February 11, 2009: "Sense" by Brian Diamond "It takes 4¢ to make a penny..."
February 10, 2009: "Night's Song" by Inès Pujos "The night cuts you open as you sit her..."
February 9, 2009: "The God of the Normandy Coast" by James Doyle "When the God of the Normandy Coast..."
February 8, 2009: "Sunday at the Boat Building School" by C. E. Perry "When a garden of amputees feels..."
February 7, 2009: "Deathmatch Mode" by Steven D. Schroeder "First Ty killed Jay, killed Jack, killed Rick...."
February 6, 2009: "The Gulf" by Jericho Brown "Seaweed chokes the sand..."
February 5, 2009: "Scullery" by Sarah J. Sloat "The mop makes a dismal instrument...."
February 4, 2009: "A Poem for David Schubert" by Sandra Simonds "Went to the valley and it was green went to the valley..."
February 3, 2009: "Hopkins Palindrome" by Aaron Belz "I caught this..."
February 2, 2009: "Rabbit" by Ron Padgett "It's hard to understand what..."
February 1, 2009: "Dailiness" by Robin Chapman "It is the birds..."
January 31, 2009: "Pixels" by Dick Allen "Each small thing he examines, every microdot..."
January 30, 2009: "Canterbury Tale" by William Greenway "The flowers she buys at the grocery..."
January 29, 2009: "The Park in Winter" by Stacy Kidd "Poor little pigeon parked on a park bench..."
January 28, 2009: "Inclement Shades of Weather" by Cynthia Atkins "As if with intention, the rain navigates..."
January 27, 2009: "The Storm" by Jennifer Moss "Where one mind stops..."
January 26, 2009: "Double Down" by Kary Wayson "I try to make a poem in order to be smart..."
January 25, 2009: "Il pleut" by Chris Glomski "The sentence begins the sentence began by thinking..."
January 24, 2009: "The Blue Grotto" by Monica Ferrell "Somewhere in this world I will understand..."
January 23, 2009: "What We're up Against" by John Gallaher "On the way home from the funeral..."
January 22, 2009: "Memory is a Disease of Animals" by Marc McKee "This is the shirt you wore..."
January 21, 2009: "Getaway" by Clay Matthews "I was not so keen as the others on the sing-a-long..."
January 20, 2009: "Nest" by Katy Didden "Yellow bill, deft needle..."
January 19, 2009: "Altered Beast" by Lucia Perillo "You were a man and I used to be a woman..."
January 18, 2009: "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart "The cat whines in the kitchen..."
January 17, 2009: "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck "The boy found a possum skull..."
January 16, 2009: "The Platypus Speaks" by Sandra Beasley "As far as the duck-billed platypus goes..."
January 15, 2009: "Theology" by K. A. Hays "The sea, for now, is a blue swag..."
January 14, 2009: "Post-op, Medical Humanities" by Sandra McPherson "Compared to my husband's kiss..."
January 13, 2009: "Bees" by Cathryn Essinger "Some worship the sun..."
January 12, 2009: "Gamophobia" by Patrick Ryan Frank "It's just that each of us is engaged already..."
January 11, 2009: "Lake Powell, AZ" by Ian Harris "From the canyon rim..."
January 10, 2009: "So Perky" by Ken Rumble "Tendency skip rock plate techniques..."
January 9, 2009: "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky "My beloved black bamboo seems wrong..."
January 8, 2009: "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays "The monks are on a pilgrimage, swinging uphill..."
January 7, 2009: "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch "In the hospital parking lot..."
January 6, 2009: "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan "So which mammalian fuck-up list produced..."
January 5, 2009: "Brian's Brain" by William D. Waltz "Science insists and how..."
January 4, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite): "Natural Enemies" by J. P. Dancing Bear "all day the owl is dreaming of a crow, dreaming..."
January 3, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite): "Skin" by Alex Lemon "Because the rain did not stop humming..."
January 2, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite): "August" by William Kloefkorn "I am not old but old enough to believe..."
January 1, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite): "Knowing No Better" by Nance Van Winckel "In the course of one night..."
December 31, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
December 30, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
December 29, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming...."
December 28, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
December 27, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
December 26, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Goat" by C.J. Sage "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
December 25, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
December 24, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
December 23, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle "My literary inclinations..."
December 22, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite): "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
December 21, 2008: "Maximillian Sunflowers" by Brett DeFries "As for us, we bend and know the pull of sun..."
December 20, 2008: "Hear" by Joseph Massey "The field / throb. Early..."
December 19, 2008: "The Dead" by Fleda Brown "The dead are disorderly. If they rot, worms..."
December 18, 2008: "Barter" by Michael Chitwood "We invented money..."
December 17, 2008: "First Defense" by Megan Gannon "Suddenly everything..."
December 16, 2008: "Portrait of Hooper as a Drama Minor Pulling an All-nighter for the Finance Exam" by Charles Sweetman "Return on Investment (ROI) tests management’s efficiency...."
December 15, 2008: "Tell it Slant" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn "Have to sail at an angle..."
December 14, 2008: "Return" by Rachel Moritz "Made of all the structures in my life..."
December 13, 2008: "Nothing is Haunted" by Sandy Longhorn "in quite the way small Midwestern farms..."
December 12, 2008: "When Worlds Collide (1951)" by Maggie Smith "If Dr. Bronson's calculations prove to be correct..."
December 11, 2008: "Attack Attack" by Marc McKee "The imperfect products of the nation-state..."
December 10, 2008: "Metronome" by Sally Van Doren "I hit normal, but it turns out..."
December 9, 2008: "How We Didn't Tell Her" by Sandra M. Gilbert "that the housekeeper said that..."
December 8, 2008: ": Shadow : Dwelling : " by Jessica Goodfellow "Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar..."
December 7, 2008: "Elegy for Robert Creeley and Pope John Paul II, Dead Three Days Apart" by Tom C. Hunley "Something dramatic is going to happen to me soon...."
December 6, 2008: "An Animal" by Katy Lederer "Black, derogatory...."
December 5, 2008: "The Tulip Thief, Mi Amor" by Suzanne Frischkorn "At first it was an ember; its glow I nursed..."
December 4, 2008: "Spoke" by Erin Malone "For every language, a landscape: Park..."
December 3, 2008: "A World of Rights and Wrongs" by Jason Tandon "Afraid of white lies..."
December 2, 2008: "Bathing in the Burned House" by Karen Rigby "The house shimmers..."
December 1, 2008: "To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago" by Sharon Dolin "We are sorry, but when your kinsman, the reverend..."
November 30, 2008: "Winter Sea" by Jacqueline Marcus "You wake up to the deepening light through the window..."
November 29, 2008: "Earth" by Wendy Drexler "Forgive me if I feel a little shaky...."
November 28, 2008: "For All Anyone Knows" by Susan Meyers "The wasps congregating on the wind chimes, late August..."
November 27, 2008: "August" by William Kloefkorn "I am not old but old enough to believe..."
November 26, 2008: "Lucifer's Beginning Poetry Workshop" by Philip Memmer "Lucifer loves the beginners...."
November 25, 2008: "Black Crosses" by T. Zachary Cotler "What about him, who stayed..."
November 24, 2008: "July" by C.J. Sage "I was wondering dollars half-hearted..."
November 23, 2008: "The Blackmailer's Wife Reads History and Considers the Nature of Guilt" by Judy Brown "After the Bourbons returned, people claimed they saw..."
November 22, 2008: "Daphne" by Emma Jones "And if I was changed, what was the difference?..."
November 21, 2008: "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Let's assume about the body..."
November 20, 2008: "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt "Just now where the scar nearly touches your hair a red siren..."
November 19, 2008: "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley "A poet is as old as what he sees..."
November 18, 2008: "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels "When the painter said, OK, you guys..."
November 17, 2008: "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira "The dog barked that year..."
November 16, 2008: "What Kind of an Animal Would Do That" by Laurie Blauner "There's blood everywhere and a throat full of rabbits. Intent is what happens..."
November 15, 2008: "The Voice of The Insomniac" by Blanca Castellón, translated by J. P. Dancing Bear "is a fragment of hell that sometimes occurs during nights of insomnia. In..."
November 14, 2008: "Franklin. Swimming." by Mike Smith "Out back the grapes are overripe and falling...."
November 13, 2008: from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman "I have loved you for a thousand years..."
November 12, 2008: "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer "Andalusiathe wavy..."
November 11, 2008: "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli "It's hard for Gravitron to remember exactly when it all stopped being so..."
November 10, 2008: "Curtains" by Sarah J. Sloat "For weeks I have been waking up..."
November 9, 2008: "Free Bible in Your Own Language" by Heather Kirn "Call me doubting Tom, but have you heard..."
November 8, 2008: "Flares" by Simmons B. Buntin "South of Arizona 86, we slow at a sudden..."
November 7, 2008: "Governing Bodies" by Tim Lockridge "There's a rash of harlequin romance written..."
November 6, 2008: "Dear Jealousy" by Ellen Andolsek "I know I said I hated you..."
November 5, 2008: "World Hypothesis" by Jennifer Militello "The geese again...."
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson "Grab that large picnic cloth. Gingham unfurled..."
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda "I'm always boarding..."
November 2, 2008: "Common Loon" by Daniel Wolff "Mindless, the tide insists that the body..."
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle "My literary inclinations..."
October 31, 2008: "The Sunset District" by Sarah V. Schweig "Meet me in the Sunset District, out by the shoreline..."
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson "Such a red is extreme in these precincts..."
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh "It's an illness in her, they think, seeing me kneel..."
October 28, 2008: "The Return" by Kate Lim "Ghostly lemurs..."
October 27, 2008: "A Last Poem" by Camasin Middour "Dear, there's not much more I can do..."
October 26, 2008: "Inchadoney" by Dave Lordan "I have run my heart down..."
October 25, 2008: "Chinese Box" by Carmen Germain "All night I climb in dream rubble..."
October 24, 2008: "The Laughing Thrush" by W.S. Merwin "O nameless joy of the morning..."
October 23, 2008: "Bad Blood" by Diann Blakely "A woman stares, wild-eyed from the terror known only when death..."
October 21, 2008: "Invocation" by Erin Malone "O potato, freckled-in-rows-of-four-where-pierced..."
October 20, 2008: "My Sister Is A Flight Of Birds" by Michael Daley "I’m standing on ice, a flight of geese..."
October 19, 2008: "Jacket" by Caryl Pagel "He bites a tape-measure between his teeth..."
October 18, 2008: "Baseball" by Deborah Burnham "I love your hands when we talk baseball, how..."
October 17, 2008: "The Sparrow And The Moth" by Damon McLaughlin "Perhaps a small wind..."
October 16, 2008: "The Possibilities for Wings" by Gary Fincke "How often have the customs of strangers..."
October 15, 2008: "Octopus" by Nancy Pagh "Some men are beautifully..."
October 14, 2008: "Nothing to It" by Chris Forhan "My mind a lake of milk: a lack..."
October 13, 2008: "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson "They are afraid they said..."
October 12, 2008: "No" by Joumana Haddad "I see you in daylight, an impossible moon..."
October 11, 2008: "The Pause in the Plummet for Prayer" by Gary Fincke "They'd plunged thousands of feet, crash-certain, and now..."
October 10, 2008: "The Feeding" by Michelle Bitting "It was about love. It was about survival...."
October 9, 2008: "The Emperor's Wife" by Laurie Blauner "Belief is everything. Yet I can't describe..."
October 8, 2008: "Letter to Beowulf" by Paul J. Willis "Sleeping under that pine tree the other night..."
October 7, 2008: "Before it Was a Business" by Justin Courter "Hey you disastrous sasquatchwatch where the hell you're..."
October 6, 2008: "Blue Car" by Natt Pritts "That blue car you drive just passed by..."
October 5, 2008: "Progress" by Carrie Fountain "Before they paved the streets of Mesilla..."
October 4, 2008: "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White "You are no virgin, listen. You must stop here...."
October 3, 2008: Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang "Stopped mid-motion in the middle..."
October 2, 2008: "Goat" by C. J. Sage "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
October 1, 2008: "Oriole" by Paula Bohince "Consider three orioles..."
September 30, 2008: "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
September 29, 2008: "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth "I wanted to say..."
September 28, 2008: "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff "Garrulous mornings, dynamic..."
September 27, 2008: "Afterlife" by Paul Hunter "Sown in their jostling millions..."
September 26, 2008: "Sunday" by Lawrence Raab "Once there was music that could tear..."
September 25, 2008: "Memory of Soil" by Eleanor Paynter "The new tenants change a few things...."
September 24, 2008: "My Lives" by Al Maginnes "In one I was a dog, reason enough..."
September 23, 2008: "The Huntsman's Resumé" by Angela Vogel "Oh, I'm ready for the chase. The green pelts, the headless acorns...."
September 22, 2008: "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 21, 2008: "Ever After" by Dennis O'Driscoll "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 20, 2008: from "The Dance of Atoms" by Lucretius, translated by A. E. Stallings "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 19, 2008: "Undoing" by James Cihlar "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 18, 2008: "Love Song" by Kimberly Johnson "Stay, adder, startled from the spikenard..."
September 17, 2008: "Birthday's Profile" by Daneen Wardrop "Sometimes my shadow is attached a little crooked..."
September 16, 2008: "On the Abduction of Calvin Klein's Daughter Marci: A Captor's Narrative" by Robyn Schiff "Eternity, Escape, and Obsession fly the same neutral flag..."
September 15, 2008: "For Want of a Wife" by Barbara Schweitzer "He’ll become no geography, float free..."
September 14, 2008: "Big Moon Over the Neighborhood" by David Bruzina "The herd is strong in me. It steers me when I think...."
September 13, 2008: "Difficult Speech: Welcome" by Molly Tenenbaum "Come all you periwinkles and brilliantines..."
September 12, 2008: "For the Night People" by Muriel Nelson "A little celebration..."
September 11, 2008: "Young John Clare" by Michael Waters "Not often do I find a nest fallen..."
September 10, 2008: "At the Jumps" by Laura McCullough "Boys bury the junk of the town..."
September 9, 2008: "Ventouse Sous Verre" by Nicky Beer "Those empty, aubergine-edged saucers, her best..."
September 8, 2008: "The Guidance Counselor to the Girl" by Catherine Pierce "The test suggests an aptitude for solitary work..."
September 7, 2008: "Narcissus" by Brian Brodeur "Each day his body, tangled in ferns and larkspur..."
September 6, 2008: "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
September 5, 2008: "Special Ed Girl" by Deborah Bogen "Remembering was hoisting into sight..."
September 4, 2008: "The Poem You Hang on Your Wall Like a Painting Because It Does Something Different Each Time the Light" by Timothy Kelly "I thought that once, near the end..."
September 3, 2008: "Word for Word" by Nance Van Winckel "Halfway into the book..."
September 2, 2008: "Formation" by Eavan Boland "The boredom of the spring afternoon...."
September 1, 2008: "Airplanes" by Katharine Whitcomb "especially circling a city before landing at night..."
August 31, 2008: "Bones" by John Godfrey "Listen to voices in my fingertips..."
August 30, 2008: "How to Do It" by Paul Gibbons "Know what a mule..."
August 29, 2008: "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl "They will say my husband was..."
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman "A woman walks the trails at night..."
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown "They're out there rattling their trailers..."
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman "We were in a place we rarely go..."
August 25, 2008: "rosette" by Carina Gia Farrero "surely we are..."
August 24, 2008: "Prelude" by Mark Granier "I wake to find a grey day waiting...."
August 23, 2008: "Descartes, Nightmare" by Susan McCabe "Robed in pink, snapping his picture-machine..."
August 22, 2008: "Poem" by Nico Alvarado-Greenwood "So many people I love having become..."
August 21, 2008: "Natural Enemies" by J. P. Dancing Bear "all day the owl is dreaming of a crow, dreaming..."
August 20, 2008: "If They Don't Have Ritalin in Heaven," by Roy Jacobstein "I guess I'll be up there with all of them..."
August 19, 2008: "Speedy Inexpensive Chaos Theory Poem About Short Term Memory Loss" by Peggy Munson "This is the intellectual property of an iconoclast...."
August 18, 2008: "The Ghost Town" by John Poch "It need not be a desiccated wreck..."
August 17, 2008: "Virtual Death" by Joseph Harrison "Let's not pretend we don't know how he felt..."
August 16, 2008: "For Her Waking" by Tom Holmes "Down the canal they arrive..."
August 15, 2008: "'Night, the Astonishing...'" by Jeff Gundy "One star only, and all the trees looming, not my enemies..."
August 14, 2008: "Onstage" by David Wagoner "I took a director to a waterfall..."
August 13, 2008: "The Injured Thumb" by Alberto Ríos "He hurt his thumb as he was cleaning..."
August 12, 2008: "Late Valentines" by Derick Burleson "My darling I have imagined you dead..."
August 11, 2008: "An Old Story" by Richard Hoffman "A few days after my mother died..."
August 10, 2008: "What Miss Plath Doesn't Tell the Doctor" by C. E. Perry "My wounds are turning..."
August 9, 2008: "The Lawnmower People" by Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz "Make whirring sounds..."
August 8, 2008: "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt "The treetop, at 9.86 meters per second squared..."
August 7, 2008: "India Rubber Man's Credo" by Tony Barnstone "The softest creature in the world is hard..."
August 6, 2008: "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles "Child hunkered down in grass..."
August 5, 2008: "The Eroticised World" by Timothy Kelly "We passed, on the wetlands boardwalk..."
August 4, 2008: "Elegy for the Builder's Wife" by Nick Courtright "Slow build, houses where thousands live..."
August 3, 2008: "For a Senior Killed on Prom Night" by Gail White "It's useless to pretend you would have been..."
August 2, 2008: "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere "When the smoking hot barrista..."
August 1, 2008: "1992 (Nachtlied)" by Lizzie Hutton "And then sex sometimes felt like a clenched horse refusing...."
July 31, 2008: "A Cure for Dead Dogs" by Craig Morgan Teicher "As if time were a cure. As if all things..."
July 30, 2008: "Trajectory" by Laurie Blauner "I waited to leave the leg..."
July 29, 2008: "Jacob's Ladder" by Dan Bellm "The young man and woman waiting for the trolley..."
July 28, 2008: "Captain America" by Matt Hart "Your makeover begins..."
July 27, 2008: "Mermaid" by Moniza Alvi "About human love..."
July 26, 2008: "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast "If you go outside, watch out! Don't encounter flowers...."
July 25, 2008: "Man in a Fox Suit" and "Fox in a Man Suit" by Michael Symmons Roberts "Thin red hide, flea-ridden, caked..."
July 24, 2008: "Tuning Fork" by Bruce Bond "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
July 23, 2008: "Jubilee" by Kimberly Johnson "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
July 22, 2008: "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming..."
July 21, 2008: "(detail)" by Billy Collins "It was getting late in the year..."
July 20, 2008: "The Möbius Strip of Grief" by Ruth Stone "When I went into the room where you waited..."
July 19, 2008: "Star in Daylight" by William O'Daly "O sun full of fingernails..."
July 18, 2008: "The Heart That Lies Outside the Body" by Stephanie Lenox "I know people want to touch it..."
July 17, 2008: "Almost Impervious" by Nance Van Winckel "From across the river a last dream..."
July 16, 2008: "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
July 15, 2008: "Skin On Skin Off Skin On Skin Off" by Alex Lemon "It was a snake-eyed night and we were doomed..."
July 14, 2008: "The Cow" by Knute Skinner "There’s a white cow standing upon the hill..."
July 13, 2008: "On the Water" by Robley Wilson "How remote everything is..."
July 12, 2008: "Turnstile" by Elaine Sexton "I carry the prints of a hundred thousand..."
July 11, 2008: "Cicatrice" by Patrick Chapman "You did not see mine, on the first night we met...."
July 10, 2008: "A Certain Swirl" by Mary Ruefle "The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty..."
July 9, 2008: "Chagall Takes a Prisoner" by Mark Yakich "Morning breaches a flying horse...."
July 8, 2008: "Hope, As The World Is A Scorpion Fish" by Liz Robbins "On the near-island of Rovinj..."
July 7, 2008: "Beneath the Bridge" by Adam Clay "The dead shepherd. The little river. The fields...."
July 6, 2008: "At The Gym" by Mark Doty "This salt-stain spot..."
July 5, 2008: "Jerusalem" by Austin Hummell "Was a time when just west of there..."
July 4, 2008: "Cantilevered Bedtime Story" by Deborah Bogen "Wallpaper farm, the girl..."
July 3, 2008: "Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket" by Matthew Guenette "...I've been elbowed in the ribs, made to ask..."
July 2, 2008: "In a time of biblical references" by Bob Hicok "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
July 1, 2008: "Snow" by Mary Ruefle "Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have..."
June 30, 2008: "Starlit" by G. E. Patterson "Oh my people how quickly tears fill bowls..."
June 29, 2008: "Between Us" by Juleta Severson-Baker "Bees in our bed..."
June 28, 2008: "Cortes Island B.C." by Sandra Savage "The sun lounges on the mountain crest, today..."
June 27, 2008: "A Poem About Monkeys" by Corey Mesler "How they're noisy, how..."
June 26, 2008: "Scar" by Bruce Bond "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
June 25, 2008: "Apeman" by Nate Pritts "All the normally tectonic hunks of cloud, white..."
June 24, 2008: "'This is Funny'" by Catherine Pierce "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
June 23, 2008: "Blue" by Ed Madden "A coy moon glows beyond..."
June 22, 2008: "The Pomegranate" by Martha Serpas "On the tray is a pomegranate and..."
June 21, 2008: "Licorice" by Daniel Hales "If it's been over ten years since you last tried..."
June 20, 2008: "Fresh Rose" by W.S. Merwin "Fresh rose, fresh rose..."
June 19, 2008: "Some Coin" by C.J. Sage "Inside, she was hendecagonic...."
June 18, 2008: "from Lights Strung Lights" by Alex Lemon "What bangs against the body while neon I sleep..."
June 17, 2008: "The Geese" by Lisa Russ Spaar "Just as God is not my sorrow..."
June 16, 2008: "Civic" by Anthony Lacavaro "A funny-looking man, so much smarter..."
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang "The end of ambition..."
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve "Gently, now, for we begin in earnest...."
June 13, 2008: "If You Step Off Now" by Dana Roeser "Waking from her nest..."
June 12, 2008: "The Rescue" by Wayne Miller "All our debris above the sunken ship..."
June 11, 2008: "Solution" by Rae Armantrout "A solution is found..."
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy "A pleasant, leather poison..."
June 9, 2008: "Cine S-a Fript Cu Ciorba, Suflã şi-n Iaurt" by John W. Evans "We reverse the spell in inches..."
June 8, 2008: "Even the Dead Do It" by Sue Owen "Feel regret about the one..."
June 7, 2008: "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
June 6, 2008: "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe "But if this is an idea of truth as inclusive..."
June 5, 2008: "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
June 4, 2008: "Over The Hedge" by Dorianne Laux "We labor in the backyard, weeding..."
June 3, 2008: "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn "Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
June 2, 2008: "Pterodactyls at Work" by Adam O. Davis "It was an era of strange hope. Back-broken, blistered..."
May 31, 2008: "Apprehension in the Blurry Trees" by Cameron Thomas "Fallen, what can a leaf care about being plucked from its..."
May 30, 2008: "Songs to Learn & Sing" by Chris McCreary "He was wandering amid obscene..."
May 29, 2008: "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl "To stave off trouble, the old bluesmen are singing..."
May 28, 2008: "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
May 27, 2008: "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall "Three brilliant pinpricks..."
May 26, 2008: "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern "As for those who face their death by wind..."
May 25, 2008: "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer "Such a time we had at the lake those days..."
May 24, 2008: "Dusk at St. Marks, As Seen From Dunkin Donuts" by Dylan Willoughby "The spire silhouettes a fire..."
May 23, 2008: "Sky Harbor" by Norman Dubie "The flock of pigeons rises over the roof..."
May 22, 2008: "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay "I saw my face on the dull head..."
May 21, 2008: "What is Coming" by Sandra Kohler "What is is coming. Light behind light, presence..."
May 20, 2008: "Open Field" by Phillis Levin "Forget the comma, the crow said, darting..."
May 19, 2008: "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze "Call me a spent orange in the dirt, a primer-gray birdhouse in the tree..."
May 18, 2008: "Bee Purple" by Floyd Skloot "Deep in a montane forest two bees flit..."
May 17, 2008: "Late Husband" by Doug Ramspeck "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."
May 16, 2008: "Theories of Falling" by Sandra Beasley "After years of research, I can only guarantee..."
May 15, 2008: "A wedding night" by Bob Hicok "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
May 14, 2008: "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers "I thread through the assembly..."
May 13, 2008: "Anniversary" by Cecilia Woloch "Didn’t I stand there once..."
May 12, 2008: "My Sea Legs" by Danielle Pafunda "From then on, Zorba called me 'Princess of Quite-a-Lot'...."
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin "My shovel rang against this pile..."
May 10, 2008: "Tremble" by Marc McKee "I am mystified by the fingerprints I have left..."
May 9, 2008: "Folk Art" by Sarah J. Sloat "Naïve, you called me, posh..."
May 8, 2008: "Will" by Bruce Bond "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
May 7, 2008: "Turning Back" by Dan Albergotti "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
May 6, 2008: "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
May 5, 2008: "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis "A turnip puts a leg down in the earth..."
May 4, 2008: "Deathsong" by Stephen Berg "Punch your fist mind of a fist through this black wall al-..."
May 3, 2008: "Things That Bend" by Leslie St. John "The inch worm in the window sill, curling...."
May 2, 2008: "Nostalgeurysm" by John Thomas "Sick of gilding these childhood vignettes...."
May 1, 2008: "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin "Stalin scythed wheat in Russian Georgia, Mao waddled knee..."
April 30, 2008: "Elegy" by Jett McAlister "To begin with, the house by the water. Which would be..."
April 28, 2008: "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest "Another future I don't want to believe in..."
April 27, 2008: "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot "The cetacean society was lucky..."
April 26, 2008: "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown "Once it's in..."
April 25, 2008: "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin "Gird your mysterious loins, I am trying to think..."
April 24, 2008: "An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities" by Rebecca Loudon "How much easier it would have been if you had simply..."
April 23, 2008: "Knowing No Better" by Nance Van Winckel "In the course of one night..."
April 22, 2008: "The Welcoming" by Beth Ann Fennelly "Distance was the house from which I welcomed you...."
April 21, 2008: "The First Chakra" by Eric Schwerer "What is this tumbling, tumbling: the first chakra...."
April 20, 2008: "Coal Seam Fire" by Steven D. Schroeder "The kobolds in the coal..."
April 19, 2008: "From a Dead Fox In a Suburban Backyard" by Robert Pesich "Do not forget..."
April 18, 2008: "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky "I'm always wrong, in fact..."
April 17, 2008: "The Music in Her" by Richard Jordan "Mother says her femurs dream inside..."
April 16, 2008: "Elegy for Tim Buckley" by Bruce Bond "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
April 15, 2008: "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis "The dumpster child grows up, becomes..."
April 14, 2008: "Dancing In My Room Alone" by Brenda Shaughnessy "I could be an eel in whirled stillwaters..."
April 13, 2008: "The Hierophant Of Hartford" by Kurt Brown "Never has a noble vocabulary been loved so much..."
April 12, 2008: "Scheherazade" by Susan Elbe "Another night washes up at my feet..."
April 11, 2008: "First Counter-clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip" by John Kinsella "Some days the attraction of outdoors is so overwhelming..."
April 10, 2008: "Orchid Anatomy" by Claudia Emerson "This evening's study the anatomy of the orchid..."
April 9, 2008: "Quail" by Paul Muldoon "Forty years in the wilderness..."
April 8, 2008: "Sestina Aguilera" by Matthew Guenette "Christina Aguilera has a blue..."
April 7, 2008: "Twilight Box" by Jason Bredle "From one lemur to a city of many other lemurs..."
April 6, 2008: "Please Advise Stop" by Rusty Morrison "with practice a memory like a voice can be thrown into any unsuspecting object stop..."
April 5, 2008: "Water Study" by Myronn Hardy "Boats mean we exist...."
April 4, 2008: "The Hunter and the Figs" by Gaylord Brewer "Victimizing a final slice of fig tart..."
April 3, 2008: "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things" by Joseph Lease "It's a pretty light, you know. The way anyone leans..."
April 2, 2008: "The Book of Sleep" by Eleanor Stanford "In the kitchen, you lay down your crowbar..."
April 1, 2008: "Self-Portrait as Future Third Person" by D. Antwan Stewart "His face becomes mammal-skin..."
March 31, 2008: "Ostriches" by C.J. Sage "When my father held his head from the sand for a time..."
March 30, 2008: "Eternia" by Clay Matthews "Jimmy, I'm lonesome sometimes again. In the mirror..."
March 29, 2008: "Family Portrait" by James Allen Hall "If I could turn the photograph, bring my mother's face..."
March 28, 2008: "Magic Turns to Math and Back" by Brenda Shaughnessy "If time were tellable, we wouldn't keep asking...."
March 27, 2008: "The Weight of Paper" by Dan Kaplan "Preoccupation with bureaucracy..."
March 26, 2008: "Agnostic Radio" by Karl Elder "Agnostic Radio. Maybe there could..."
March 25, 2008: "Dress Pattern with an Interior" by Caroline Knox "I will be assembled out of..."
March 24, 2008: "Daphne" by Barbara Helfgott Hyett "What then this milking, what then..."
March 23, 2008: "Ars Poetica" by Bryan D. Dietrich "Start with the darkest corner of what was..."
March 22, 2008: "Island Remnant" by Endi Bogue Hartigan "I carved a miniature horse out of wax. The wax was meant to coat a surfboard..."
March 21, 2008: "Penelope" by Michele Newcomb "When October rain and the hissing..."
March 20, 2008: "Grafton" by D. Nurkse "Hardly had I died..."
March 19, 2008: "Dahlias" by Robert McNamara "They arrive on my desk, a clear demonstrative bunch..."
March 18, 2008: "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass "This seascape's now more cataract..."
March 17, 2008: "The Rhinoceros Graveyard" by James Doyle "On the way to the graveyard, the great white..."
March 16, 2008: "The Farewell" by Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker "You might be able to grab the sea by the hair..."
March 15, 2008: "Sadness Therapy" by J. W. Marshall "On the second floor..."
March 14, 2008: "We End, Like Galileo" by B. T. Shaw "With years came diminishing ability to focus..."
March 13, 2008: "Coligny" by D. Nurkse "There was a passerby on that road..."
March 12, 2008: "The Weight of Light" by Sidney Wade "We sit on a bench in the park..."
March 11, 2008: "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella "As when they discover that the collective..."
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok "Then one day we were putting silver back..."
March 9, 2008: "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves "Where the fire enters..."
March 8, 2008: "Near Christmas Once" by Sarah Busse "Near Christmas once we drove away from lights..."
March 7, 2008: "Your Way of Thinking" by Christopher Kang "I was busy thinking cosmologically, and it made me appreciate life..."
March 6, 2008: "Instinct" by Changxin Fang "Little baby, you lay your head..."
March 5, 2008: "Gerhard Richter" by Chad Bennett "Dresden was still in ruins, so we were..."
March 4, 2008: "Two Crooks" by Peter Waldor "As in two underarms..."
March 3, 2008: "Garbage Walk" by Moira Magneson "My husband and I are wheeling out..."
March 2, 2008: "Courtship" by Susan Lewis "I have more selves than I can listen to, he told me, his..."
March 1, 2008: "Apostasy" by Carol Quinn "On Sundays, they appeared..."
February 29, 2008: "Hymn" by Anne Shaw "The pink troll of our decade snickers from under its bridge..."
February 28, 2008: "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow "Fold, fold away the silk-sack clouds...."
February 27, 2008: "Benediction" by Martha Collins "Not a story, they said, not even a line...."
February 26, 2008: "Dogma Mask in Favor of Alice" by Elena Karina Byrne "How many windows can a house bear?..."
February 25, 2008: "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro "There suddenly / where the streetlight..."
February 24, 2008: "Post-war deployment" by Lee Sharkey "It is thought that cows' unhurried lowing..."
February 23, 2008: "Proposal" by Sandra Beasley "Show me a tent of well-dressed witnesses..."
February 22, 2008: "Notes From a Journey" by David Krump "We died during a train wreck..."
February 21, 2008: "Scientific Method" by Adam Clay "Twenty-three percent when placed under..."
February 20, 2008: "Driving Out to Innisfree" by Matthew Thorburn "Naturally we zipped right by...."
February 19, 2008: "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
February 18, 2008: "Street Fight" by Wayne Miller "What it was that filled me..."
February 17, 2008: "College Town" by John Hoppenthaler "Dinner tonight is chili dogs with onion, pepperoni rolls..."
February 16, 2008: "Before Anything Happened the House Had No Skeleton" by Karyna McGlynn "the termites had deboned the thing..."
February 15, 2008: "Shaggy's Soul Food Open Soon, Said the Sign outside of Tallulah" by Alison Pelegrin "I once had faith in this message hand-lettered..."
February 14, 2008: "Hooked and Crooked" by Nicole Walker "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 13, 2008: "One Body" by Yerra Sugarman "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 12, 2008: "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto "I saw tonight four men in wheelchairs eating..."
February 11, 2008: "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger "Look into the sunlight..."
February 10, 2008: "Narcissists Anonymous" by Teresa Leo "A jackal among hedgehogs. At the meeting..."
February 9, 2008: "A Holiday" by Sarah Kennedy "White feathers snowing the highway, thank God..."
February 8, 2008: "One Last Thought" by Benjamin S. Grossberg "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
February 7, 2008: "Small Ode to My Ignorance" by Steven Reese "To wake, at this age, and realize how..."
February 6, 2008: "In Search of the Owl's Mirror" by Jen Currin "So it happens I am mortal: my heart..."
February 5, 2008: "Love's Short Grammar" by Robert Bense "Whether we should take out..."
February 4, 2008: "There's Just No Telling" by Jennifer L. Knox "Gobi (not your real name), where were you..."
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel "Hours after my decision to defect, the elders of the West..."
February 2, 2008: " Stargazer" by Tara Gorvine "He arrives at my door with Stargazer lilies..."
February 1, 2008: " Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia)" by Sarah Hannah " You can scorch it, strip it, tear it down..."
January 31, 2008: "The History of Bluegrass" by Jeffrey Bahr "The bees form a living mitt about the aspen's narrow branch...."
January 30, 2008: "War Story" by Sarah Murphy "One day (but not today) I will play the lady..."
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay "Before the leaves fell they waved like flags..."
January 28, 2008: "The Blue Sylvia" by Terrance Hayes "A daily dose of repentance. Eyeballs rattling..."
January 27, 2008: "Last Look" by Todd Hearon "The ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica are melting..."
January 26, 2008: "Tattooed" by Ronald Wallace "My sister gets a tattoo..."
January 25, 2008: "Root Beer" by James Haug "We found new combinations of interiors...."
January 24, 2008: "Being a Model" by David Wagoner "An old friend said if I didn't have anything..."
January 23, 2008: "On Betrayal" by Phillis Levin "The Woman Who Is And a voice came to me and said..."
January 22, 2008: "The Woman Who Is Early" by Nin Andrews "The Woman Who Is Early is always at least one step ahead of..."
January 21, 2008: "Eclipse" by Sarah Hannah "Every so often I am dilated; the pupils..."
January 20, 2008: "A Shiver" by Seamus Heaney "The way you had to stand to swing the sledge..."
January 19, 2008: "So a Ballerina Walks into a Biker Bar" by Suzanne Parker "Her tutu is luminescent..."
January 18, 2008: "I-beam" by Gerard Malanga "Will someone please explain what happened here?..."
January 17, 2008: "The Idea is the Fleeting Ghostly Fish" by Kate Light "that's lit up in the world of fathoms-deep..."
January 16, 2008: "Like Kafka" by Dan Stryk "To wake in the late evening..."
January 15, 2008: "An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro" by A. E. Stallings "It is not the curled-up bones, nor even the grave..."
January 14, 2008: "New Girl" by John Whalen "If you meet a beautiful woman for the first time..."
January 13, 2008: "Area 25" by Catherine Wing "Hello, seat of my soul..."
January 12, 2008: "Like Us" by Maria Costantini "pigs form close bonds. Studies of pigs..."
January 11, 2008: "Elephant" by Kate Evans "To feel the smooth skin of water on your back..."
January 10, 2008: "The World Wakes Up" by Andrew Michael Roberts "So we stop at the side of the road, and there is..."
January 9, 2008: "Canto of the Examination (24: Eighth Sphere)" by John Kinsella "The huntsman lies low..."
January 8, 2008: "Adam And Steve" by Catherine Carter "But what if God did? What if I showed you..."
January 7, 2008: "The Traffic" by Philip Schultz "At first it objected..."
January 6, 2008: "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen "There are twelve trees on my block...."
January 5, 2008: "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto "The bird didn't speak..."
January 4, 2008: "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina "See the punk-haired bush as a stout little argument between..."
January 3, 2008: "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell "I love airports as they are: stinking, octagonal, full..."
January 2, 2008: "Furlough" by Leslie Williams "On the nightstand the corpse of a pear..."
January 1, 2008: "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays "sludge, is mere action. It strips the sleet from the walk..."
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