October Hurricane
“Our hometown seems so far,/and the moments I miss…/even though they were,/more likely, /ordinary, /like any memories—/hooked by human love,/the most relentless of barbs…”
Poem of the Week (February 17), by Domenic Scopa.
Poem of the Week
Unstressed/Weak
“it’s possible this poem/ won’t be believed…” Poem of the Week (February 10), by Annabel Banks.
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Roots
“You bend your head,/ offering up a scalp for my perusal,/ inviting some small sense of revelation/ in this act of witness.” Poem of the Week (February 3), by Rosalind Jana.
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eight ways of speaking about snow
“when I talk/ to you over the phone I like/ your tongue, when you light me/ your fresh poems.” Poem of the Week (January 20), by Agnieszka Wolny-HamkaÅ‚o. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese.
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from ‘Intimations’
“…this one book I have been writing/ in canticles kwéyòl/ dancing lines of lakonmèt and weedova/ their violons and chak-chak in my ear…” Poem of the Week (January 13), by John Robert Lee.
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The Helga Pictures
“He touched a knee or an elbow// with the tip of his paintbrush when he wanted/ me to turn this direction or that…” Poem of the Week (December 16), by Terri Kirby Erickson.
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Vapor Trail
“…the oxygen in the air is leaking away;/ a jet plane/ scrambles…” Poem of the Week (December 9), by Oh Sae-young. Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé.
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FM-Biography
“There’s an easier way, there are/ such places: pools of spilt light cool as billycans,/ the snail-slow pulse of passing towns…” Poem of the Week (2 December), by Agnieszka Wolny-HamkaÅ‚o. Translated from Polish by Clare Pollard.
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Ascension II
“She gathered them,/ pegged them to clotheslines/ to crisp in the sun, ordered by size…” Poem of the Week (November 24), by Elosham Vog.
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Lockets
“…Learned syntax/ ebbed, flowed, brought in, out with petticoat// turns, the swish of a silk skirt, and yes!…” Poem of the Week (November 17), by Nancy Anne Miller.
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