Stanley Plumly on poets & e-mail: “Need speediness is the enemy of style”

Letters from Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale

 Love Manual by Eva Heisler

David Mason channels Charles Bukowski

Rachel Hadas waits for a train

Plus: New poems by Oliver Rice, Joanna Klink, Killarney Clary, Richard Kenney, Lucia Perillo, & more

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POETRY

Bruce Bond

Rock

Christina Pugh

Sebald’s Dream Props
Seeing In

Ted Gilley

Simplicity
Connecticut
Maine

Oliver Rice

The Long Afternoon of Winston
Here Is a Pub Where Welsh Is Spoken

Joanna Klink

Blue Ice

Sharon Bryan

Bass Bass

Beverly Burch

April; 20 Ways

Eva Heisler

Lover’s Manual

Killarney Clary

Two Untitled Poems

Matthew Thorburn

Like a Sparrow

Richard Kenney

Resonance
Entropy Over

Jeffrey Harrison

Creature Comforts

Kevin Stein

Rehearsal

Rachel Hadas

At the Station

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

On Leaving Home

James Hoch

Men in Wheelchairs

Chanda Feldman

Dwellings

Nance Van Winckel

I Am on a Bank

Eve Joseph

Crow

Larry Bradley

Controlled Burning

Lucia Perillo

A Romance

Aaron Baker

The Zero in the Branches

David Mason

Poem with Refrain by Charles Bukowski

COMMENTARY

Mail

Stanley Plumly

Letters Essay

Harry Thomas

The Poet and the Physician: Eugenio
Montale’s letters to Edith Farnsworth