Smile gone up in smoke
there are too many poems about sadness, too many [...]
Lunch Hour (Letter on Back of Diner Napkin)
Dear , the day you & those gaudy elephant [...]
Past Present
Fanny Howe's essay "Past Present" on Robert Lowell's Collected [...]
The Enthusiast
for Douglas Barbour (1940–2021) You are not here. There [...]
Two Poems by Mirabai
Mirabai (approx. dates 1498-1546 CE), was born into a [...]
An Open Eye
I passed the ravine a hundred times but never [...]
The Mariner
There’s an out in either direction. I can eat [...]
The Cryptoporticus—Palatine Hill
This poem is featured in Diana Arterian's recent collection [...]
On Subjectivity (Springfield, Massachusetts)
She—it—rolled under my hood. I was hemmed in. I was [...]
Drinking Fernet-Branca in the Dark
Feeling very much in charge of a glass of [...]