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

KATHARINE OGLE
Aquarium

Published by Gabi Graceffo

A jellyfish floats the ocean hallway
like a plastic bag

JEDDIE SOPHRONIUS
Heritage

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Like any good son, I stole
mother’s
insomnia when she delivered me

YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH
The Vagabundo Circus
(translation by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

I sell tickets for magicians and mimes,
I stand by the entrance with the key like Peter.

JED MUNSON
Redlines

Published by Gabi Graceffo

does draw a blues a curtain along
a greenfleshed ash

BEN PEASE
Two Poems

Published by Gabi Graceffo

What summoned the small thing? Dark
light surrounded us, the wretched

KIM HYESOON
Metaphor Ban
(translation by Jack Jung)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Metaphor has been stolen from the poet.

DIANE MEHTA
Pot-pourri à Vaisseau, from Sèvres

Published by Staff

We make the soul composite when throwing shapes
with hearts and hands, as if hearts could understand.

JORY MICKELSON
It Was the Year Without

Published by Gabi Graceffo

It was the mouthlark, I mean it was morning

SAMANTHA MARTIN-BIRD
the star

Published by Gabi Graceffo

i told the nishinaabe parliamentarian

RACHEL BETESH
The Fine Air

Published by Gabi Graceffo

tasting of pine, clear
breath of it