“The Toadstone” by Reagan Upshaw
Reagan Upshaw is a poet and critic living in Beacon, NY. His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in Bloomsbury Review, Boston Review, Hanging Loose, the San Francisco Chronicle, Light, Poets… Read More
“On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness” by Arthur Guiterman
Arthur Guiterman was born of American parents in Vienna, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891, and was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo. He was an… Read More
“Insomniac” by Rebecca Watts
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk, England in 1983 and now lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance editor. In 2015 a selection of her work… Read More
“How easy it was, to stand and look at the stars” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where he studied under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. His poem which… Read More
“We Are Experiencing Delay” by Caoilinn Hughes
Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes' first collection, Gathering Evidence, was published by Carcanet in 2014. She recently moved from New Zealand (where she completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington) to the… Read More
“New Jersey” by BJ Ward
"In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the bright up-and-coming voices of his generation."… Read More
“Spell for an Orchard” by John Clegg
John Clegg was born in Chester in 1986 and grew up in Cambridge. He studied for a PhD at Durham University. In 2013, he received an Eric Gregory Award. His first collection,… Read More
“Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” by Robert Archambeau
Robert Archambeau is a poet and literary critic whose works include the books Citation Suite, Home and Variations, Laureates and Heretics, The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World, and The Kafka… Read More
“Independence Day” by John Poch
John Poch has published four collections of poetry. His most recent, Fix Quiet, won the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize. He teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. His… Read More
“The Night my Sister Went to Hollywood” by Hilda Sheehan
Hilda Sheehan's debut collection is The Night my Sister Went to Hollywood (Cultured Llama Press, 2013). She has also published a chapbook of prose poems, Frances and Martine (Dancing Girl, 2014). … Read More
“14-Year-Old with Two Friends on Bikes Outside the Wawa on Germantown Ave” by Mark Danowsky
Mark Danowsky’s poetry has appeared in About Place, Beechwood Review, Cordite, Elohi Gadugi, Grey Sparrow, Mobius, Right Hand Pointing, Shot Glass Journal, Third Wednesday and elsewhere. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Mark… Read More
“Evening Landscape” by Leonard Gontarek
Leonard Gontarek is the author of six books of poems, including He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs and Déjà vu Diner. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,… Read More
“Fathers and Sons” by David Mason
"David Mason's poems are about moments of realisation. Something is otherwise. Something has been learned with pain and still it won't settle. There are families moving through houses and institutions, ageing, losing… Read More
“From the Balcony on Heavy Metal Tribute Night at the Trocadero” by Ernest Hilbert
"Per Contra began publication as an online quarterly in the fall of 2005. Our name indicates our intention to offer more than one way of looking at the world. You can… Read More
“The Lion for Real” by Allen Ginsberg
"Ginsberg is both tragic & dynamic, a lyrical genius, con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." - Bob Dylan… Read More
“Dummy, 51, to Go to a Museum, Ventriloquist Dead at 75” by May Swenson
"Swenson was a visionary poet, a prodigious observer of the fragile and miraculous natural world." - Priscilla Long… Read More
“Black Ice and Rain” by Michael Donaghy
"A linguistic musician, a literary musician. Every poem is a marvel." - Simon Armitage… Read More
“New Order of the Ages” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin’s latest Collection, Stignatz & the User of Vicenza is published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland Ohio. His other books published by Dos Madres are the booklength poem Soutine (2012), the… Read More
“To My Mother” by George Barker
"His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. There are echoes of Blake, Housman, Verlaine and Barker's contemporary, Dylan Thomas. " - Peter Wilby… Read More
“Hit, Run” by Dawn Manning
Dawn Manning is a writer, photographer, and rogue anthropologist living in the Greater Philadelphia area. Her awards include the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the Edith Garlow Poetry Prize, and the San Miguel Writer’s Conference Writing… Read More
“Blustery” by Neil Shepard
Neil Shepard’s sixth and seventh books of poetry were published in 2015: Hominid Up, by Salmon Poetry (Ireland), and Vermont Exit Ramps II (poems and photos) by Green Writers Press (Vermont).… Read More
“Zeug-o-Matic” by Kate Light
Kate Light, who died unexpectedly in April 2016, was a librettist, lyricist and poet in New York City. She was an alumna of the Eastman School of Music, Hunter College, and the… Read More
“Dream Song 105” by John Berryman
“A major achievement . . . [Berryman] has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself.” - A. Alvarez, The Observer… Read More
John Betjeman Interviews Philip Larkin in a 1964 Episode of the British Television Program Monitor
John Betjeman interviewing Philip Larkin in a 1964 episode of Monitor, which was a flagship arts program on British TV during the 1950s and 1960s. Larkin reads "Church Going," "Toads Revisited," and… Read More
“Mirror” by Mark Strand
“He is not a religious poet on the face of it, but he fits into a long tradition of meditation and contemplation. He makes you see how trivial the things of this… Read More
“Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth
“Wordsworth’s poetry is great because of the extraordinary power with which he feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.”… Read More
“Pills” by Eliza Callard
Eliza Callard spends most of her time reading, writing, and trying to keep pace with her cystic fibrosis. She lives in the house she was born into with her wife and… Read More
“Time is a Horse” by Christine Gelineau
Christine Gelineau is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Crave (NYQ Books, 2016), which has just been released. Her poetic sequence Appetite for the Divine was the Editor's… Read More
“Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost
"I have to say that my Frost is not the Frost I seem to perceive existing in the minds of so many of his admirers. He is not the Frost who confounds… Read More
“Visible Spectrum” by Ernest Hilbert
“There are books of poetry that, if only readers could be induced to pick them up, might change their minds for good about the supposed incomprehensibility, preciousness, and irrelevance of modern poetry.… Read More