by Huu Thinh (Translated by George Evans and Nguyen Qui Duc) The letter I wrote you had smeared ink, But the bamboo walls are thin, and fog kept leaki...
by Kathryn Stripling Byer I hoe thawed ground with a vengeance. Winter has left my house empty of dried beans and meat. I am hungry and now that a few...
by Stanley Plumly Some——the ones with fish names——grow so north they last a month, six weeks at most. Some others, named for t...
by Annie Finch Rumbling a way up my dough's heavy throat to its head, seeping the trailed, airborne daughters down into the core, bubbles go rioti...
by Emily Dickinson Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the winds - To a heart in port - Done with t...
by Laura Mullen Huge crystalline cylinders emerge from the water The future Where do they come from the King gushes these talking fish Show me at once...
by Rebecca Wolff Half a day is dead already—— a lady with a baby in the shady graveyard promenade not quite the idea but the first idea to...
by Travis Nichols There is a movie called "She's Gotta Have It." There is a blizzard in Massachusetts today. Twenty-one people died in C...
by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Translated by Marilyn Hacker) The first day after his death she folded up her mirrors put a slipcover on the spider web ...
by Edgar Allan Poe Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew ...