Poems of Today

Ellen Bryant Voigt (2012) One minute a slender pine indistinguishable from the others the next its trunk horizontal still green the jagge...

Marina Tsvetaeva (1919) translated from the Russian by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine I am happy living simply: like a clock, or a cal...

Stephen Dunn (2012) The Lord woke me in the middle of the night, and there stood Jesus with a huge tray, and the tray was heaped with co...

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;...