Tyehimba Jess

‘Let me tell you how / white hands kilned me / in the moonless middle / of night.’

Rae Armantrout

‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’

Issue 134

Jaan Kaplinski

‘I don’t remember whether I believed that I could just / abandon one life to begin another’

Issue 134

Eliza Griswold

Solmaz Sharif

‘Full or empty / was impossible to see.’

Issue 134

Matthew Welton

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

Don Mee Choi

‘Watch this performance carefully, for you are witnessing a new concept of modern warfare.’

Noelle Kocot

‘the problematic / Ocean spreads itself out. We take it in stride, / And we do our best.’

Issue 133

Ange Mlinko

‘the victim of a mythological punishment.’

Noelle Kocot

‘What I am equipped to do is different / Than what I have been called for.’

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?’