Maureen N. McLane

‘They party in the woods / as if they were meant for pleasure / not timber.’

Issue 133

Andrew Motion

‘The hunters have all failed, / the three hunters and their forlorn dogs / now arriving home from the mountain / which thunders above their village’

Rae Armantrout

‘My long career / in explaining / my career.’

Caitlin Scarano

‘didn’t antlers grow from his head / whenever my mother’s back was turned?’

Raven Leilani

‘I sent messages in nine point font / arcing through the Internet, asking him / do you believe in our heavenly Father?’

Maureen N. McLane

‘I gave my love and that stone / I gave my love still ring’

Joanna Walsh

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

Juliana Spahr

‘So the dolphins talks, talks, over thirty distinguishable sounds.’

Angélica Freitas

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

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.’

Angélica Freitas

‘woman is basically meant / to be a residential complex / all the same / all plastered over / just in different colors’

Issue 132

Rae Armantrout

An exciton consists / of the escaped negative / (electron) / and the positive hole / it left behind.

Issue 119

Robin Robertson