Poems of Today

Nick Laird (2011) You're beeswax and I'm bird shit. I'm mostly harmless. You're irrational. If I'm iniquity then you...

Brenda Shaughnessy (2010) I wish I had more sisters, enough to fight with and still have plenty more to confess to, embellishing the fight s...

Geoffrey Hill born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42 Undesirable you may have been, untouchable you were not. Not forgotten or passed over at the p...

Justin Quinn (2010) At twenty, you hold this street’s attention better than the Bolshoi could— the boots, the perfume, not to mention the bl...

Louise Glück Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was— for what I was: from the beginning o...

Robert P. Baird (2010) Torn turned and tattered Bowed burned and battered I took untensed time by the teeth And bade it bear me banking Out ...

Jonathan Wells (2010) With one he wrote a number so beautiful it lasted forever in the legends of numbers. With another he described the ma...