Issue 145

Jana Prikryl

‘he cut out small talk / not hearing it, convincingly deaf to its nothing’

Jana Prikryl

‘his balance / between person and / abstraction’s so stirring I want no other token for anything can happen’

D. Ptryrczwz

‘she was not among those / I’d expected I might meet’

Issue 146

Alissa Quart

‘We name stuff and hope / that’s proof. How / reporting works.’

Ellen Rachlin

‘Theory cannot be tangible fact / like driving on I-95 to get to a lecture / on supernovae.’

Issue 103

Craig Raine

‘The inescapable smoke of her gown’

Nisha Ramayya

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

Swati Rana

‘Imagine all the prodigal / People, hoping only to / Escape every human mistake.’

Claudia Rankine

‘Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue’

Issue 129

Barbara Ras

‘nothing in those early evenings free / of care could have prepared you’

Issue 100

Oliver Reynolds

‘A room at the top of the street / preserving his life in sunlight’

Adrienne Rich

‘Consider yourself / a trombone blowing unheard.’

Adrienne Rich

‘Lichen-green lines of shingle pulsate and waver / when you lift your eyes. It’s the glare.’

Issue 119

Robin Robertson