Poems of Today

Stephen Burt (2013) That shell is pretty, but that shell is too small for me. Each home is a hideout; each home is a secret; each home i...

Kimiko Hahn (2012) Without the sun filtered through closed eyelids, without the siren along the service road, without Grandpa's ging...

Gretchen Marquette (2013) When I see a man in a dress shirt, I want to walk up behind him, place my hand between his shoulders, to re...

Michael Ryan (2013) What kind of delusion are you under? The life he hid just knocked you flat. You see lightning but not the thunder. ...

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...