Poems of Today

Stephen Burt (2015) Everybody wants a piece of me. I have been weighed and measured, tested and standardized, throughout my young life...

Paul Farley (2015) You’re told this deck was found in some shattered bothy or croft north of the Great Glen, missing its six of diamond...

Idra Novey (2014) We liked to stick it in a BB gun and shoot it. We tattooed with it. We said hallelujah, the poor man's tanning lot...

Heather Christle (2013) I can't swim because I can't fit into the water I am two million feet tall but thank you for inviting...

Elizabeth Bradfield (2013) We all want to see a mammal, Squirrels & snowshoe hares don't count. Voles don't count. Something,...

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...