April 2013
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
This issue is sold out.
- Stephen Stepanchev
- Adam Kirsch
- Michael Robbins
- Lucie Brock-Broido
- Anna Hong
From this Issue
-
-
poemBy Stephen StepanchevI know that rarity precedes extinction,Like that of the purple orchid in my garden,Whose sudden disappearance rattled me.Jane, in her way, is also beautiful.And therefore near extinction, I suppose.She is certainly rare and fragile of bone.She insists she is dying,...
-
poemBy Adam KirschRevolutionaries [Alois Lindner, Erich Mühsam, Guido Kopp], 1929 by August SanderTwelve years on, the beard that Lenin woreStill sharpens revolutionary chinsTo dagger-points held ready for the warIn which the outgunned proletariansWill triumph thanks to these, their generals,Whose rounded shoulders and...
-
poemBy Michael RobbinsFiddle no further, Führer. Rome is built.It took all day. Now let us solove the world. I’m just thinking out loud.My stigmata bring out my eyes.The smallpox uses every part of the blanket,and the forest is a lady’s purse.The Indian...
-
Table of Contents
POEMS
-
Stephen Stepanchev
-
Michael Robbins
-
Lucie Brock-Broido
-
Anna Maria Hong
-
Gwyneth Lewis
-
J. T. Barbarese
-
Jane Hirshfield
-
Randall Mann
-
Mary Moore Easter
-
Jamaal May
A FEW MORE DON’TS
-
Marjorie Perloff
-
William Logan
-
Sina Queyras
COMMENT
-
Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Lista, Archibald MacLeish, Ange Mlinko, and Art Smith
-
Christina Pugh
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
-
Michael Salcman
-
Belle Randall
-
Dian Duchin Reed
-
Mark Halliday
-
Neal Whitman
-
Mark Esrig
-
Jim Powell
-
Mark Dunn
-
Russ Kessler
-
Henry Gould
-
Tim McGrath
-
Thomas Defreitas
-
Sherry Horowitz
-
Contributors
-
- Jamaal May
- Marjorie Perloff
- William Logan
- Sina Queyras
- Michael Lista
- Archibald MacLeish
- Ange Mlinko
- Art Smith
- Christina Pugh
- Michael Salcman
- Belle Randall
- Dian Duchin Reed
-
- Mark Halliday
- Neal Whitman
- Mark Esrig
- Jim Powell
- Mark Dunn
- Russ Kessler
- Henry Gould
- Tim McGrath
- Thomas Defreitas
- Sherry Horowitz
-