Issue 100

Jamie McKendrick

‘greener / for an alien crop of hogweed higher / than us’

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘I once had had a thought / About a thought I once had had.’

Issue 2

David Katz

‘Ever notice the change that comes over / your gentle wife the minute she sets / foot in a grocery store?’

Paula Bohince

‘What sparrows come, / come briefly, briefly displacing / the nothingness.’

Issue 103

Carol Ann Duffy

‘Darlings, I write to you from the moon’

Amy Gerstler

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

Paul Farley

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

Katha Pollitt

‘Nobody wanted to hear / about the rain or its father / or leviathan slicing the deeps / at the black edge of the world / under the cold blue light of the Pleiades.’

Issue 131

Peter Gizzi

‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’

Issue 119

Robin Robertson

Issue 119

Jamie McKendrick

Issue 131

Kathryn Maris

‘this dream that might have been pleasant for an / 8-year-old could instead emerge as a nightmare for a woman / on the brink of menopause’

Mary Ruefle

‘Those flowers belong to the dead.’

Sumana Roy

‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’