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The Water in These Poems May Be Poisoned, but Beauty Persists
The Water in These Poems May Be Poisoned, but Beauty Persists The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit. Credit...John Gall Daisy Fried’s latest book of poems, “My Destination,” will be published in October. May 9, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET WELLWATER: Poems, by Karen Solie Despite her light touch and quick wit, the Canadian poet Karen Solie is a tragedian.
'Context Collapse,' by Ryan Ruby Original
Ruby explains this in one of hundreds of footnotes that course in unrhymed 10-syllable lines down the book's right-hand pages, opposite the main poem (also in 10-syllable lines). In tandem, the text and the commentary narrate and explain poetry's origins and its waves of innovation and transmission all the way to the present, whereupon Ruby takes up artificial intelligence's relationship to the varied forms we call poetry.
You Were You Are Elegy
Fragile like a child is fragile. Destined not to be forever. Destined to become other To mother. Here I am Sitting on a chair, thinking About you. Thinking About how it was To talk to you. How sometimes it was wonderful And sometimes it was awful. How drugs when drugs were Undid the good almost entirely But not entirely Because good could always be seen Glimmering like lame glimmers In the window of a shop Called Beautiful Things Never Last Forever. I loved you. I love you. You were. And you are.
Not a Game by Keith D. Leonard
“We talkin’ about practice.” —Allen Iverson As I read Watch Your Language (Penguin, 2023) and So To Speak (Penguin, 2023), Terrance Hayes’s new books, I found myself thinking about freedom. Both books frame creativity as a lifelong practice that can lead to a kind of liberation. Hayes recalls his time playing basketball as a teen and then in college to reverse the usual hierarchy between practice versus the game.
A Poet Whose Swerves Capture the World in 14 Lines
Book Review|A Poet Whose Swerves Capture the World in 14 Lines https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/books/review/gravity-and-center-sonnets-henri-cole.html Poetry Henri Cole’s sonnets, gathered in “Gravity and Center,” reject most of the form’s constraints but embrace its ability to show how thought works. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
After the Idea of the Flood Recedes
by Daisy Fried | https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fried.After-the-Idea-of-the-Flood-Recedes_final.wav with borrowings from Rimbaud, “Après le Déluge” in a turbulent dream, I wake troubled, confused, a tabby nosing round the sheets… the market stalls are dressed in meat, bavetted, boned, ground to links beady with nut and veg, dusty with paprika and cheese—the art of man on all!—while in steamy windows, rabbits hang by hindfeet above slimy chicken parts dosed with...
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Bible Study At the Y, day before Thanksgiving, two burly men, overweight but not too, 60 or so, a little arthritic, galumph along on adjacent treadmills, arguing about the Bible. They bellow cordially, joshing each other.
On my First Son by Ben Jonson | Poetry Foundation
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scap'd world's and flesh's rage, And if no other misery, yet age?
What is Poetry?
In that life I would have dwelt in Lviv (or maybe Vienna) in a narrow street, on the first floor, with flowers standing on the balcony and an old bike in the entrance; I would have been in love with a café waitress, a girl with a Galician accent and a dark gaze, and I’d have heard the “Radetzky March” from the barracks — drums mixed up with the overseas drill; I would have gone to a secret address to resist the aliens threatening Europe, and been taken for questioning from Lonsky Prison, and...
Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look
The Poetry Issue The Nobel laureate’s postwar collection “Flight and Metamorphosis,” published in 1959 and newly translated into English, reveals a poet full of mystery and depth. April 15, 2022, 12:01 a.m. ET Credit...Linda Huang FLIGHT AND METAMORPHOSIS: Poems By Nelly Sachs. Translated by Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall. An inviting poem is usually easy to understand; a good poem — inviting or not — usually complicates into surprise and depth.
Everything Is Flowers
“Paris wasn’t then what it is now,” Charles Baudelaire wrote in 1861, “a welter and waste, a Capernaum, a Babel populated by idiots and incompetents, undiscriminating in how they kill time and absolutely deaf to literary pleasures.” That sentence, larded with Old Testament hyperbole, appears in Baudelaire’s essay on the poet Théodore de Banville (1823–1891), one in a series of encomiastic considerations of his contemporaries.
Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself
poetry Nov. 11, 2021, 3:55 p.m. ET HOWDIE-SKELP By Paul Muldoon 179 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. “Howdie-skelp”: the slap a midwife gives a newborn. Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed. “American Standard,” named after a toilet brand, riffs for pages on lines from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while churning through contemporary concerns like gerrymandering, immigration, and grotesque politicians and their media platforms.
American Poetry Review - Daisy Fried - "Book 13"
When Odysseus finally gets home he doesn't know it is his home. Why does Athena love him so much? She, disguised as a boy, boys are always wandering around, swineherd boy, oysterman boy pottering along the seashore— a shimmer in the folds of her/his crappy old clothes— that’s Athena’s “tell” even when shapeshifted to menial youth— Athena’s like come on man, it’s Ithaca. You know. And Odysseus? Dissembles, says, oh yeah, heard of that place.
I Have Not Forgotten
By Nathaniel Mackey Mackey in Cork, Ireland, 2005. Courtesy of the author In an era when poetry is increasingly compressed to fit our iPhone screens, Nathaniel Mackey has been writing two astonishing long poems—“Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou—across multiple books for the past thirty-five years. “Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou are two ongoing sequences beaded with his insights on cosmology, grief, ancestry, migration, and black life.
The Broken Bell
I like, winter nights, to find in a heat lamp That beats and fumes, old memories Rising in the banging Of church bells through snow spray. Blessed be the bell of liberty That, ancient, keeps trying to ring, Tossing out his faithful cry Like an old soldier in his bunker On the eve of battle.
February 2020 | Poetry Magazine | Poetry Foundation
A pair of adolescent boys grabs a rabbit to shear off its ears. It doesn’t matter why, whether they’re sad or from the city. What matters is what they do with their hands: hold the blade, hang the rabbit by...
One Day I Suddenly Notice ...1
You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year. Remember the pregnant woman?
From the Country’s New Poet Laureate, Poems Reclaiming Tribal Culture
Poetry Image Joy Harjo was named poet laureate in June. Her new collection, “An American Sunrise,” celebrates and mourns lost Native traditions. Aug. 13, 2019 AN AMERICAN SUNRISE Poems By Joy Harjo In June, after decades as a significant presence for poetry readers, Joy Harjo was named United States poet laureate. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she’s the first indigenous poet to hold the post.
A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy
TRICKSTER FEMINISM By Anne Waldman Illustrated. 141 pp. Penguin Poets. Paper, $20. In folklore, the trickster figure is a cunning rulebreaker, positioned disruptively outside conventional mores. With her new book’s title, Anne Waldman, whose writing, performing, teaching and activist career defies political and poetic convention, appears to promise feminist mischief and playfulness.
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