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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

JENNIFER CHANG
Two Poems

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I had /
a love. A blue /
kite untwisting /
the sky.

MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the Words

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Here they are the words fluttering in the mind

RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN
Saline Pulse

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my love / unwinding / the rope

KRISTEN STEENBEEKE
i go through phases

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sometimes i crouch like a creature in my house

MICHAEL PRIOR
Two Poems

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If a memory bears radiation’s / relationship to time

ANNA MARIA HONG
Maiden

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Other birds punctuate (our) song

MEGAN FENNYA JONES
In the City We Sleep

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Probably most words / should be fully felt but never said

ALEX GALLO-BROWN He Was a Worker

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so banal a demand it went unnoticed

ADAM CLAY Now Warm and Capable

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The week-before-last Ada asked Michael and I /
if we believed in God, a higher power, /

a whatever.

KARY WAYSON Two Poems

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Is it freedom from or of?