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

ERIN ADAIR-HODGES
I Have Cried Off All My Makeup

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I’ve forgotten what’s in the boxes
I markered with my name

HELENE ACHANZAR
O desire, I grow my hair long

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All my life I’ve wanted
to be called in from the shore.

LAURA READ
The Fourth Wall

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Actually, it was more like a horse galloping
towards you, another thing I’ve never heard

KUNJANA PARASHAR
Amphibian

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I was once-tadpole: water-breath, tailed, morphing

RAE ARMANTROUT
Vigil

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We scroll pages
as if scanning thickets

MICHAEL MCGRIFF
from Questions for the Interrogation

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Is the blood moon stuffing ballots
into the low firs?

CAMILLE T. DUNGY
Ceremony

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When I came downstairs today
for breakfast, he was playing Lovely Day.

BAILEY COHEN-VERA
Port Authority Poem

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& then I might appear very suspicious
& then who knows

ANDREA BLANCAS BELTRAN
Dog Year in the Time of #45

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I scroll the void
of what we feed each other

CECILY PARKS
Two Poems

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August, wind gust, rain lust, drought,
Heart-shaped leaves and heart-shaped doubt.