Jean Valentine I'm, you know, still here, tulip, resin, temporary—

Franz Wright

Kay Ryan, The First of Never

Mary Ruefle

Molly Brodak

James Baldwin It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light.

Jean Valentine

Ada Limón

Ursula K. Le Guin

Garous Abdolmalekian translation: Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Ellen Bass

Alex Dimitrov

Jane Kenyon

Hope Chest, Maggie Smith so now I take it back. Dearly I take myself back.

A.R. Ammons

Robert Hayden What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Sharon Olds

Ted Kooser

Franz Wright

Charles Bukowski there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

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Reading this on a Saturday morning just today, not yet—

William Stafford

William Stafford

Anne Carson, On Hedonism

Anne Carson

Sci-fi, by Tracy K. Smith [...] Weightless, unhinged, Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift In the haze of space, which will be, once And for all, scrutable and safe.

Ash, by Tracy K. Smith

Blandeur, by Kay Ryan

Ursula Le Guin

Anne Carson

Kenneth Rexroth "The future is long gone by And the past will never happen We have only this Our one forever"

Maggie Nelson "tell me which green porch is home."

Linda Pastan

Franz Wright "It's unendurable, unendurable."

Maggie Nelson

William Stafford

Tracy K. Smith

For M, by Mikko Harvey

W.S. Merwin - Summer

something lighthearted for the weekend The Walk Out, by Alice Kinsella

Linda Gregg

Constance Carrier "we walk in too much light"

Tess Gallagher

another prose poem from Ada Limón

Ada Limón

Linda Pastan on insomnia

Linda Pastan

Alex Dimitrov

Tess Gallagher (the "Tess" in the previous poem)