Winner of the 2012 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, selected by Joyelle McSweeney There is a line that could make you love me really, but reeling, I spend the words like virgin coin for a …
Such Hunger: A Review of Eduardo C. Corral's Slow Lightning Sophie Klahr Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning. Yale University Press, 2012. Paperback, 96 pp, $18. …
How many sentences do you need to sink a kayak Welcome to my list of necessarily unanswerable questions Dear person I am writing this for your morning urgency of light For whatever questions about …
Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead , selected by Michael Dumanis from the 2012 Cleveland State University Poetry Center first book contest, to be published in 2013. She is also the author …
I replace the pan of water on the radiator in my sleep. I know this because I wake standing by the fogged window upon which I’ve transparently written: REFILL RADIATOR PAN. CHECK. There are parts …
Come listen to the coyotes, you say, your voice a smudge of ash in the Iowa night. I hear the encroaching yips, the bellow of a frightened cow, though I do not admit this. We agreed not to shout …
Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collection Litany for the City (BOA Editions 2012), selected by Jane Hirshfield for the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ninth …
A bird is a kind of island. In flight, a flock is called an archipelago . At rest, a peninsula . When two flocks meet, they are called a communion . Used in a sentence: Two flocks met and …
The question of whether the idea of America is dead is not a question. A question by its definition does not cease to exist in the language. You hear spoken by those who ask it. This is why the dead, …
Jacques J. Rancourt is currently a Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University. His poems have appeared or will appear in New England Review , Beloit Poetry Journal , Colorado Review …
Two people who are honest for the first time speak honestly to each other. There are flocks of sheep herding dogs inside me. There are lovers I’ve pared with knives from apples. This …
Detroiter Jamaal May is the author of Hum (Alice James Books 2013), winner of the Beatrice Hawley award, as well as two chapbooks, The Whetting of Teeth and The God Engine . His poems have …
Hmm... drags at the back of a throat, occasionally becomes mmmhmm... when three men huddle around a car, admitting some smaller defeat, while not quite admitting the emergence of digital parts …