Jack Underwood

‘We are nearing the conclusion of this anatomy. / We are strung between the point of ending, and / the point of having started.’

Miyó Vestrini

‘It was fake that your hugs were convulsive / and your furies unpredictable.’ Translated by Cassandra Gillig and Anne Boyer.

Issue 124

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ocean Vuong

‘I’m too tired she said / to be this happy / & we laughed without / moving our hands’

Derek Walcott

‘I came up out of the subway and there were / people standing on the steps as if they knew / something I didn’t.’

Mark Waldron

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

Joanna Walsh

‘For us, discomfort is a hard feeling. / Almost as hard as hate. / Almost as hard as fear.’

Samantha Walton

‘though I’ve sat where torrents recall no slush / I’m drawn by your ceramic explosions’

Ahren Warner

‘Your promise has been extracted like the cow-horned remains of molars long-soused in a Diet Coke marinade.’

Issue 132

Jillian Weise

‘And now that he is body-less, / he speaks through us. / You could say. Although / I myself have not caught / a Pope.’

Jillian Weise

‘You want to get married? / We could die here // for lack of light’

Issue 134

Matthew Welton

‘what it is about the earth / that it won’t absorb the stream’

Joe Wenderoth

‘At first you treat him as a nobility – / a miraculous figure(head) / with no real office. / Then he dies.’

Issue 140

Dara Wier

‘a style says conviction in indifference / conviction in style’