ALEX GALLO-BROWN He Was a Worker
so banal a demand it went unnoticed
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
ADAM CLAY Now Warm and Capable
The week-before-last Ada asked Michael and I /
if we believed in God, a higher power, /
a whatever.
KARY WAYSON Two Poems
Is it freedom from or of?
MOHAMMED KHAÏR-EDDINE Three Poems translation by Conor Bracken
I beat the sky with the questions of my fists
ALLISON FUNK Cells
Such an odd circle / of bell ringers / we are
JIM WHITESIDE Diana Damrau sings “Der Hölle Rache” in Mozart’s The Magic Flute
So give me the world then.
RYO YAMAGUCHI Thin Continuance
we / were just talking, / like people talk
LAURA READ Deer are the obvious stand-ins for the dead
Often what I want is impossible
ELIZABETH ROBINSON [Burnt easy chair on sidewalk]
Glory exists along a continuum.
DUJIE TAHAT a general sense of belonging
Even the blue sky was generous