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)

Raymond Carver

Mark Twain, a different perspective

Isabelle Correa

Sharon Olds is one of those "good but not for me" poets but my God, this poem!

Happy birthday Gwendolyn Brooks

Langston Hughes

more Creeley

Jean Valentine

happy birthday Robert Creeley

Carl Sandburg

Frank Bidart "whether you love what you love or live in divided ceaseless revolt against it what you love is your fate"

here's some of that PNW rain, from Ursula Le Guin #poetry

Lucille Clifton #poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay #poetry

Gregory Orr #poetry

Lorine Niedecker

Charles Simic

for Francis, who cared about "the here"

Easter, by Jill Alexander Essbaum #poetry

Ada Limón #poetry

Franz Wright #poetry

Izumi Shikibu #poetry

Lucille Clifton #poetry

Izumi Shikibu #poetry

a small prose poem by Franz Wright

Kenneth Rexroth ❤️ #poetry "They are all gone now, the days We thought would not come for us are here."