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Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)

John Kinsella

‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’

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Four Poems

Crispin Best

‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’

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we are seen by the world / what must be seen

Nisha Ramayya

‘oh dirty feet blood-clotter / oh grease monkey clod-hopper / oh cloud-devourer spit’

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Three Poems

Chus Pato

‘you alone sit down at that table / facing the houses you tried to inhabit’
Translated from the Galician by Erín Moure.

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Three Poems

Anthony Anaxagorou

‘we are born / to a siren and the wail of each other’

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From This End of Sadness

Peter Gizzi

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

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Two Poems

Heather Christle

‘I am asking in case it happens, / because anything can and even does.’

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Quantum Displacement

Nuar Alsadir

‘I don’t want / to be a figure others lean their names into’

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Two Poems

Rae Armantrout

‘A glowing purse / that unlatches / with a snap’

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Two Poems

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

‘You divide space you think time occupies, not motion itself.’

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Two Poems

James Tate

‘I wanted to go for a walk, but I was afraid / of missing a phone call.’

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A Memory Palace for Brothers Who Flew Just Close Enough to the Sun & Created the Storm

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey remembers Binyavanga Wainaina.

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Four Poems

Mark Waldron

‘Just look at those nasty trees flaunt / their leaves, each one a tra-la-la.’

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In Conversation

Liz Berry & Mona Arshi

‘I longed for poems to meet me in my sorrow and help me know how to live in that new world, how to survive it.’

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