Poems read Jan-Mar 2021
Kaveh Akbar, “What Use is Knowing Anything if No One is Around“
Anna Akhmatova, [“I have a lot of work to do today…“] (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer)
John Ashbery, “Of the Light,” [“But how does this work?“] from The New Spirit
Ruth Awad, “Inventory of Things Left Behind“
Daniel Bailey, “Drunk Sonnet 17“
Gabrielle Bates, “Ownership“
Rosa Alice Branco, “Prescriptions for the Soul” (translated by Alexis Levitin)
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Domestic Mysticism“
William Bronk, “Weathers We Live In“
Paul Celan, “From Darkness to Darkness,” in 70 Poems, tr. Michael Hamburger
Wanda Coleman, “Black-Handed Curse”, “What He Gave Me“
Robert Creeley, “The Movie Run Backward“
Mahmoud Darwish, from In the Presence of Absence
Deborah Digges, [“Many doors are set open…“] in Rough Music
Alex Dimitrov, “Weldon Kees“
Katie Ford, [“Yet I see the small lights…“]
Vievee Francis, “The Heart Will Scale the Dew”
Deborah Garrison, “On New Terms”
Jenny George, “Reprieve,” “Origins of Violence” in The Dream of Reason
Aracelis Girmay, [“praise the water, now“]
Louise Glück, “Landscape” “Copper Beech“
Ray Gonzalez, “Hummingbird on the Porch“
Jorie Graham, “Notes on the Reality of the Self“
Linda Gregg, “The Presence in Absence“
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “About the Flowers”
Alen Hamza, “Where love naps, there nip I“
Jane Hirshfield, “Like Others”
Kim Hyesoon, “Heart’s Seashore,” translated by Don Mee Choi
Pamílèrín Jacob, “My Dad says to write things I want from/with God in 2021”
Denis Johnson, “Night”
Dynas Johnson, “black girl recovers water goddess for her future daughter“
Weldon Kees, “Small Prayer”
donika kelly, “Love Poem: Werewolf,” in Bestiary
Jane Kenyon, “Song“
Sarah Kirsch, “Winter music” (translated by Anne Stokes)
Katherine Larson, “Statuary“
Philip Levine, “Let Me Begin Again”
Larry Levis, “Gossip in the Village“
Paige Lewis, “The Terre Haute Planetarium Rejected My Proposal“
Sandra Lim, “Pastoral“
Ada Limón, “What I didn’t know before“
Derek Mahon, “Heraclitus on Rivers“
Gretchen Marquette, “Elsewhere“
Jane Mead, “Trans-Generational Haunting”
Valerie Mejer Caso, “Watering the Geraniums in the Window,” in the Edinburgh Notebook
WS Merwin, “The Present”
Dunya Mikhail, “The New Year“
Czesław Miłosz, “A Song on the End of the World“
John Murillo, “Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop”
Hieu Minh Nguyen, “The New Decade”
Sarah O’Brien, “Once I Dreamt of Falling & Woke Up on the Floor“
Sharon Olds, “Amaryllis Ode,” “Bestiary“
Patrick Phillips, “Living,” in Boy
Alejandra Pizarnik, “[Who does not believe…]”
Hajara Quinn, “Corsage“
Camille Rankine, “Necessity Defense of Institutional Memory”
Adrienne Rich, “Song,” [“Since we’re not young…“]
Patrick Rosal, “Ten Years After My Mom Dies I Dance“
James Schuyler, “The Snow“
Charif Shanahan, “Where If Not Here (II)“
Soren Stockman, “Skirmanté“
Mark Strand, “Fiction“
Arthur Sze, “Pitch Blue” in The Glass Constellation
James Tate, “‘The Whole World’s Sadly Talking to Itself’,” “Interruptions”
Jean Valentine, “When she told me”
G. C. Waldrep, “Mutter Museum with Owl,” in The Earliest Witnesses
Philip Whalen, [“Torn paper fake mountains“]
Charles Wright, “Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn“
Adam Zagajewski, “Transformation,” “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” translated by Claire Cavanagh
