Poems of Today

Sarah Teasdale There is no magic any more, We meet as other people do, You work no miracle for me Nor I for you. You were the wind an...

Gottfried Benn translated from the German by Michael Hofmann One says: please no inner life, manners by all means, but nothing affectiv...

Roberto Sosa translated from the Spanish by Spencer Reece The poor are many and so— impossible to forget. No doubt, as day breaks, ...

Edith Södergran translated from the Swedish by Averill Curdy Implausible fish bloom in the depths, mercurial flowers light up the coast;...

Jane Hirshfield (2011) In daylight, I turned on the lights, in darkness, I pulled closed the curtains. And the god of More , whom nothi...

Stephen Dunn (2011) If the imagined woman makes the real woman seem bare-boned, hardly existent, lacking in gracefullness and intellect and ...

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