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The Empty Chair

ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
Winner of the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

“The tourists take a snapshot of the sight — / But only if nobody’s sitting there.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Robert W. Crawford, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Cookie Monster Blue

WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, William Breen

To a Saxon Poet

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“Snow fallen on Northumberland has known / And forgotten every footprint that you made”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

Sleep

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

Counting Our Losses

JAMES J. BARNES

“We learn our grief like any human art”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, James J. Barnes

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