Sadaf Halai

‘Of the 36 views of Fuji, this one is the strangest: / the great wave off Kanagawa, frozen and tempestuous, / both sound and silence.’

Angélica Freitas

‘amelia, the real woman, / ran away with the bearded lady’

Selima Hill

‘Black against the sky the giant mothers / are whispering together in the moonlight’

Leontia Flynn

‘a look I’d managed to accessorize / with raw dermatological distress.’

Issue 126

Aracelis Girmay

‘Please stay with me as I / replay the last touch.’

Paul Farley

‘I’m holding out. / I’m blue in the face.’

Issue 100

Michael Hofmann

‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’

Colin Herd

‘I wear my fear around me / I fan it out on my pillow’

Amy Gerstler

‘I must remember god is not my private / secretary.’

Issue 134

Eliza Griswold

Peter Gizzi

‘I did not understand / the code that held / me to the world.’

Issue 141

Benoit Jutras

‘Our nation is a spell of nerves and gas. We say yes to monsters, to elegies etched in our palms.’ Translated by Daniel Canty.

Issue 114

Juan Felipe Herrera

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

‘Syllables are excised by / X-Acto, fed into a shredder / for good measure.’