“Tequila” by Alvaro Mutis, translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander
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“Streets” by John Ash
These glances press against you like the surges of the breeze off the Hudson crossing Hudson Street. What could be going on in the mind of the young, upwardly mobile person shopping… Read More
“No History, No Geography” by John Drexel
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“Thetis” by Jo Shapcott
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From the E-Verse “Life is Stranger than You Think” file: Dinosaur Operas are Real!
E-Verse recently interviewed poet Katy Evans-Bush (“Opera is Deliciously Un-Dinosaur”), whose new book Me and the Dead was published last month by Salt Press in Great Britain. Among the topics we covered was… Read More
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“Hearing Nausicaa’s name in / every gull’s outcry”: Derek Walcott reads “Sea Grapes”
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“Winter Landscape” by John Berryman
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“The Holy Innocents” by Robert Lowell
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“Motto,” by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Michael Hofmann
This is all there is, and it’s not enough. It might do to let you know I’m hanging on. I’m like that man who carried a brick around with him To show… Read More
“Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin” by Frederick Seidel
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“A Piece Of The Storm” by Mark Strand
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“The Dipper” by Kathleen Jamie
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XXI from “Home and Away” by Rachel Wetzsteon
From the center of the giant room almost all the paintings looked alike, but then one caught my eye: a soothing square of burgundy, surrounded by black dots and bordered by a… Read More
“Museum” by Glyn Maxwell
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*SONNET FOR A STATUETTE* By Paul Siegell
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“Eastern Front,” by Georg Trakl, translated by Christopher Middleton
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“The Fall of Rome” by W.H. Auden
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New sonnets by Andrew Goodspeed
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“The Bean Eaters,” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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“The Rooms of Other Women Poets,” by Eavan Boland
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Two Poems by John Poch
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