ROB ARNOLD Mercury 1984
whatever mistakes we made
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
MAYA JEWELL ZELLER Laozi
What happens if I breathe / in from here?
DYLAN CARPENTER Chantepleure
I indulge in bitterness / But sweeten it with song
ALICIA MOUNTAIN Two Poems
Night so good when left alone
ANNE-MARIE THOMPSON The Arsonist Ambushes the Firefighters
When faced with disaster, / our brains turn first to anything else
TOBY ALTMAN from Discipline Park
The question, I said, is not how to salvage the past, but how to destroy it ethically.
AUSTEN LEAH ROSENFELD San Fernando Valley, 1999
What do you call a secret you keep mostly from yourself?
MICHAEL SCHMELTZER Into the Air Like an Owl
I didn’t know where / to put my faith
NOAH BLAUSTEIN Vertigo
a tiny glacier calved / into my brain’s dark sea
REBECCA FOUST eat first / poetry later
skin in the morning / bone by nightfall