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Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
In Conversation
Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
Children in Tactical Gear
Peter Mishler
‘we watched the last / very colorful weapons / coming ashore’
Thrive: A Lyric Sequence
Jill Bialosky
‘Sometimes we could not see / anything before us. That’s what it / required.’
Tissue
Tishani Doshi
‘Even if you could walk through the corridors / of your body, you would not know which rooms / to enter, which were full of stone.’
from the knotweed sonnets
Andrew McMillan
‘sometimes I need / the sound of something pulled up from the roots / and tossed aside’
Nation
Tishani Doshi
‘Understand friend, the conscience is a delicate broth. / Sometimes it feels good to be bad.’
Species
Tishani Doshi
‘Will it be for them / as it was for us, impossible to imagine oceans where there are now / mountains?’
Click-Wrap
Ida Börjel
‘You know about my / emotional drinking, and my night walks and my / fragmented heart-to-heart conversations.’
