To mark the end of the year, we have compiled our most-read poetry publications of 2023.
Moving Nowhere Here | Kimberly Campanello
‘I continue to await / the perspective this feeling / ought to bring’
‘Moving Nowhere Here’ by Kimberly Campanello.
‘it’s wrong / to let delicacies, even when suspect, go untried, i have no wish to die, / he wrote’
’86’ by Natalie Shapero.
Two poems by Bob Hicok:
‘This raises the inevitable question: What’s your policy / on fog? When it gets in bed with you, who’s on top?’
– ‘Elements’
‘wants a cigarette more than ever, to tell someone, anyone, / a person or coyote, what he’s learned’
– ‘Dress for Success’
Two poems by Eva Salzman:
‘There never is nor was a single fact among facts I deem fact – it’s funny / that’
– ‘Whatever’
‘I want to go / or think I do / for the love of them / to stride an eloquently bleak Camargue’
– ‘Never over the nearly over’
Three poems by Seán Hewitt:
‘sweetness on the tongue, / a gin of feral blood’
– ‘Haw’
‘Go to the gates, go through / Go in the dew with your wet shoes’
– ‘Interlude’
‘Make me a cloud of wings.’
– ‘Dispersion Song’
Eclogue of the ‘Big Garden’ | John Kinsella
‘Each compulsion to control to eradicate / is legacy is leeway is prestige is kudos’
‘Eclogue of the “Big Garden”‘ by John Kinsella.
Ecstatic Joy and its Variants | Peter Gizzi
‘as surely as this is about seeing you dance naked / it is also about the sky’
‘Ecstatic Joy and its Variants’ by Peter Gizzi.
Two poems by Mary Jean Chan:
‘I longed to please and impress, to cease the questions / concerning my impeccable English’
– ‘Sestina’
‘To disagree was to admit to my desire / for cruelty’
– ‘Out’
[harbour doubts] | Bebe Ashley
‘I don’t want to lie to you but I don’t want to tell you the truth either.’
‘[harbour doubts]’ by Bebe Ashley.
Two poems by Rae Armantrout:
‘Sleep is my boyfriend, / my mother, my boss.’
– ‘Skid’
‘I can’t say / burning oil, but I can make you think it.’
– ‘Flame’
Feature Image © Risa Ikeda
