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Why I Can’t Swim

ALLISON JOSEPH

“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”

August 11, 2018 Allison Joseph, Archived Poems

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

Discourse on the Crippled God

TONY BARNESTONE

“A man swings through the open doors on crutches, / his long arms thick with muscle like the Christ”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Departure

X. J. KENNEDY 

“With thoughtful steps she made sure that no friend / Would catch the drift of what she planned to do”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, X.J. Kennedy

As You Like It

ANNA EVANS

“I cast you as the main romantic lead / in what I always knew was just a play”

May 20, 2018 Anna Evans, Archived Poems

Counting Our Losses

JAMES J. BARNES

“We learn our grief like any human art”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, James J. Barnes

Halt, Dearest Shadow Always Poised to Flee

SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
Translation by Rhina P. Espaillat

“Fantasy builds a cell you cannot cheat.”

May 20, 2018 Archived Poems, Rhina P. Espaillat

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