Poems of Today

Christina Davis (2013) 4 We kiss on lips, where the tenses attach. We enter the conundrum of another's becoming. We look for someo...

Kay Ryan (2013) You are a land I can't stand leaving and can't not. My party ship is pulling out. We all have hats. I try t...

Wendy Xu I lie in a bed and away from all my thoughts. I pledge all kinds of things to the moon, how it speaks but not to me. Giant lan...

Nick Laird (2013) My daughter's two weeks old tonight and my wife wants me to talk to her more so I started to explain how the answe...

Hafiz (Persian, c. 1320-89) All I want to do is get drunk with my wife An endless glass of wine both of us on the floor So what if squ...

Dan Brown (2013) In the years I've been at this (Lots, not to be precise) You'd think that once or twice At least I would have ...

Jane Hirshfield (2012) Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious, restless, stunned, relieved. Does a tree also? A mountain? A cup holds sug...