PAULA CISEWSKI
The Empress at Large
Having / inherited this current form
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
PAULA CISEWSKI
WOOGEE BAE
excerpts from mung
The woken hours / What is seen as waste
STELLA WONG
Fu er dai
I wondered how they found / my limping / tongue
TAIJE SILVERMAN
The Night I Slept with My High School English Teacher
I want to begin this story where it ends.
ZEESHAN PATHAN
Ophthalmology
Would it be fair / For the man to press the switch / Of departure?
KATRINA ROBERTS
Four Visual Poems
FOR WHOM AMONG US HAS NOT FELT HERSELF a CIPHER
RICHARD KENNEY
Sword Upstairs
Is this tower the chanter / of the sky’s pipes, or the dry syrinx / of the dead bird of the sky?
ALLAN PETERSON
I thought all life came from the alphabet
You have my word on it hand on it /
a book a note a dying sun behind a cloud
JENNIFER CHANG
Two Poems
I had /
a love. A blue /
kite untwisting /
the sky.
JOE HALL
I Hate That You Died
the news: yr dead, I look /
at the page, grow /
broken at the root