Rectangle Print
“Rothko knew his paintings were brash/ the kind of fare that would usurp/ viewer confidence…” Poem of the Week (January 21) by Matthew Schmidt.
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Wrecker’s Ball
“The sea heaves in,/ out of breath, searches/ deep pockets for shells.” Weekend poem, by Nancy Anne Miller.
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On the acquisition of language
“For we are children of/ legacies that took our tongues…” Poem of the Week (January 14), by Sanaa Jatoi.
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At Capernaum, boats
“This is the Port of the boat people/ After Dessalines and Duvalier, HIV and cholera/ After tornado and tremblor…” Weekend poem, to mark the anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, by John Robert Lee.
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trickery
“i’ve taken to unpicking mirrors…/ i’ve stuffed your tourist dolls/ into the magician’s hat.” Poem of the Week (January 7), by Iain Britton.
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Slumber-Party Games
“That is the effect I have on all of them./ They lose control around me./ They all must be in love with me.” Weekend poem, by Megan Dobkin.
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Summer 1
“And boys make wheelies on winding country streets/ And girls with plastic buckets search mango groves/ For Kidneys…” Weekend poem, by Joanne C. Hillhouse
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Eleven
“I mourn my Uncle Ali’s beautiful son/ I mourn those somber sparrows soaked to the skin/ I mourn the dark corridors of Evin…” Poem of the Week (December 24), by Payam Feili.
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If I Were Able To Count Up To Five…
“Fair girls from alien Gorny Mari land/ Would ride bicycles to my town/ Their white teeth dazzling me…” Weekend poem, by Valery Petrovskiy.
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The Tumulus
“where you are is not where skin transfers its open meadows/ where the insolent madwoman breaches the dykes…” Poem of the Week (December 17), by Colin Honnor.
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