December 31, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "The Days That Were Have Now" by Emilia Phillips   " in all eyes a witness...."
December 30, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "Things a Girl Should Know" by Aimée Baker   "Remember / to keep your eyes open when you dance..."
December 29, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "Drone" by Emily Rosko   "The images are precise and anonymous...."
December 28, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "Final Notice" by Eamonn Lynskey   "After every holiday..."
December 27, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "Getting Lost" by Wesley McNair   "I'm not proud of it, but I couldn't resist..."
December 26, 2018 (A 2018 Favorite):   "Traitor" by Heather Derr-Smith   "You were always so afraid. The loss you lived with..."
December 25, 2018:   "afro-beat paradise with the disembodied spirit who now believes he can love" Kwame Opoku-Duku   "i'm sho there was..."
December 24, 2018:   "Fatal Mouths" Jennifer Martelli   "The city guys are stringing Christmas lights on the locust trees...."
December 23, 2018:   "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes" Julia Bouwsma   "an island, plowed road over half a mile out. We walk...."
December 22, 2018:   "Credo" Molly Peacock   "I believe in being killed, and I believe in poetry...."
December 21, 2018:   "[They're wandering among the rooms...]" Franca Mancinelli   "They're wandering among the rooms of a house where it..."
December 20, 2018:   "Parable" Jennie Malboeuf   "God as a mother..."
December 19, 2018:   "Discussing Elephant Puppets the Night of the Refugee Ban" Jennifer Martelli   "Elephant puppets so big ten men can fit under their pipe bodies..."
December 18, 2018:   "elegy with linden tree three-years' dead still standing" Nina Puro   "noon like the wind...."
December 17, 2018:   "Received" Gala Mukomolova   "Edna's idealism lends to her a virginal and innocent qualify...."
December 15, 2018:   "Pintura Negra" Lucian Mattison   "We follow the porcelain..."
December 14, 2018:   "Gate A-4" Naomi Shihab Nye   "Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning..."
December 13, 2018:   "Why We Believe Obvious Untruths" Martin Ott   "My father once filmed a stop-action scene..."
December 12, 2018:   "Let Them Not Say" Jane Hirshfield   "Let them not say: we did not see it...."
December 11, 2018:   "Symmetry" Kristin Chang   "How our bodies domesticate..."
December 10, 2018:   "Elegy with 'Satisfaction' Playing in the Background" Amorak Huey   "Life is assembled from the splinters and shards..."
December 09, 2018:   "the first kiss" Mahogany L. Browne   "is a library shadowboxing midday event..."
December 07, 2018:   "Night" Scott Keeney   "Each time we enter its dark, open mouth..."
December 06, 2018:   "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'" Nabila Lovelace   "makes me think plurality. Maybe I can love you..."
December 04, 2018:   "Now That I've Exploded" jamie mortara   "it's like the firetrucks..."
December 03, 2018:   "Cradle Song for the Girl Not Yet Homeless" Lauren Brazeal   "Each night I'm tucked..."
December 02, 2018:   "Love is a Weakness" Emily O'Neill   "I love you tortellini en brodo I love you..."
December 01, 2018:   "Something Wonderful Is About to Happen to You" Dora Malech   "Say Fortune's a poem without blood? Nope. Hung it...."
November 30, 2018:   "Chorus of Wild / Flowers Behind Eyes" Scott Keeney   "to suck the burning sand of hope..."
November 29, 2018:   "Attack of the Fanatics" Mary Meriam   "Breathe, darling, breathe. I cannot..."
November 28, 2018:   "Sonnet with Mozart and Bear" Robert Thomas   "Whoever you're with, I'm sure he's the real..."
November 27, 2018:   "Why Am I Not Invited to Your Party?" Lee Upton   "And what are your parties like without me?..."
November 26, 2018:   "The Lives in Novels" Daniel Corrie   "Open the book. It is where time is held...."
November 25, 2018:   "Disciple" Susan O'Dell Underwood   "You eat Utah..."
November 24, 2018:   "An Ode to the Departures of Brightning, My Pet Moth" John W. Sexton   "the not-moving of your moving..."
November 23, 2018:   "Clumps of Happiness" Tishani Doshi   "Whenever I find myself in a room..."
November 22, 2018:   "Gratuitously early the cold" Amy Key   "The shoreline was a fallen-down hem..."
November 21, 2018:   "In Search of the Wild Dulcimer" Lana Austin   "I need something pure with..."
November 20, 2018:   "Moon" Eloise Klein Healy   "Maybe I'm not awake...."
November 18, 2018:   "Love" Judith Barrington   "Sometimes you can see it enter the dogsee..."
November 17, 2018:   "Aubade with Horses (Fort Worth Impromptu II)" Mark Wagenaar   "There's no right word for the color of the ashes..."
November 16, 2018:   "Visiting Your Grave" Andrea Potos   "I found the path behind the row..."
November 15, 2018:   "in a field of oats" Gillian Allnutt   "the wind says 'mississippi' or 'persepolis' or 'erysipelas'..."
November 14, 2018:   "Sonnet" Margaret Ronda   "to catch a weather and mother it quiet..."
November 13, 2018:   "Plague" Roger Mitchell   "We lay our scene in fair Verona, bur could..."
November 12, 2018:   "We Live Our Lives through Other People's Bodies" Derek Mong   "till we' re no more than campfires..."
November 10, 2018:   "Symptom" Ann Lauterbach   "Some star..."
November 9, 2018:   "A River in Egypt" Chase Twichell   "Denial is not a river in Egypt..."
November 8, 2018:   "Words for the Dead" Ursula K. Le Guin   "Mouse my cat killed..."
November 7, 2018:   "Tough-guy talk" Bob Hicok   "She hugged my paper route...."
November 6, 2018:   "No, Don't" Mary Ann Samyn   "—I told myself, going in...."
November 5, 2018:   "Instructions for Identifying 'Illegal' Immigrants" J. Michael Martinez   "Consider moving through..."
November 4, 2018:   "Hurricane Season" Sara J. Grossman   "Evening begins as a ruptured bank..."
November 3, 2018:   "The Valkyrie" Erin Hoover   "Strapped to the wheel of perpetual..."
November 2, 2018:   "Lament of the Man Who Picks Up Dead Animals" Austin Smith   "Give me the soil twelve dead horses..."
November 1, 2018:   "When a Bee is Caught" Jona Colson   "This is mother and wood—both rooted in blossom..."
October 31, 2018:   "Goblins" James O'Sullivan   "There's a few more lights now,..."
October 30, 2018:   "After the Ghost Investigation" Christine Potter   "The local writer on the paranormal with her camera..."
October 29, 2018:   "On the Anniversary of Our Death" Debra Kang Dean   "am wondering what to make..."
October 28, 2018:   "Biopoiseis" Irena Praitis   "The salt box I bought..."
October 27, 2018:   "Night watchman" Peter Raynard   "Bed by midnight, I set my alarm for two a.m...."
October 26, 2018:   "Morpheus" Paul Genega   "Beyond these walls..."
October 25, 2018:   "The Wolf Man" Abigail Parry   "You can't know how it feels..."
October 24, 2018:   "Ghost" Leanne O'Sullivan   "I saw then...."
October 23, 2018:   "Niko (Nee-Koh)" Curtis L. Crisler   "I recall your head on the chalkboard..."
October 22, 2018:   "Boy Scouts vs. Zombies" Juan J. Morales   "In my elementary school gymnasium..."
October 21, 2018:   "A House like a Ship" Hélène Cardona   "I live in a house like a ship..."
October 20, 2018:   "Three Magpies" Neil McCarthy   "Just now, this Jewish cemetery..."
October 19, 2018:   "We Heave Up Like the Night" Clifford Brooks   "It's snowing, our reflections stained,..."
October 18, 2018:   "The Dreaming Woman" Paige Riehl   "You are not an injured angel, side bleeding...."
October 17, 2018:   "Where I Turn Bad" Michelle Bonczek Evory   "I start thin king of flammable material. the kind..."
October 16, 2018:   "Elegy for the Arctic" Leanne O'Sullivan   "Now that we believe in the stories..."
October 15, 2018:   "Ghazal: By the Sea" Rafael Campo   "We always wanted a house by the sea...."
October 14, 2018:   "Removal Day" Colin Dardis   "Your hand was always there for the taking,..."
October 13, 2018:   "A Boy and his Dog" Gabriel Fitzmaurice   "He played with me, I slept on him..."
October 12, 2018:   "The Empire Attacks" Francis Combes translated by Alan Dent   "Futile to rub your eyes..."
October 11, 2018:   "Equinox" Esther Morgan   "Somewhere between..."
October 10, 2018:   "This is Snow" Hannah Stephenson   "I show you snow..."
October 9, 2018:   "101, Taipei" Nicholas Wong   "Happiness in wanting to say something but not saying it. I want to say..."
October 8, 2018:   "Stranger" Martin Ott   "The man emerged from a Starbucks..."
October 7, 2018:   "[I used to think silence was beautiful, but now I get why]" Anna Meister   "I used to think silence was beautiful, but now I get why..."
October 6, 2018:   "Storm Hymn" Katherine DiBella Seluja   "One thin crack in the plastic sign..."
October 5, 2018:   "Creature From The Black Lagoon" Rustin Larson   "I am guilty of eating a chocolate chip muffin...."
October 4, 2018:   "At Home in the Modelo Market" Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi   "An old man pulls the wrinkles of his dark face back...."
October 3, 2018:   "Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader" Adam Tavel   "Bless the amber porch light that coronets..."
October 2, 2018:   "Indira Gandhi Speaks to Nixon" Anne Champion   "It's unpleasant, talking to men about warlike..."
October 1, 2018:   "Eurydice" Carole Stone   "I thought I wanted to return to earth...."
September 30, 2018:   "his face rubs off" Djelloul Marbrook   "summer on earth..."
September 29, 2018:   "Ventriloquism for Dummies" Emari DiGiorgio   "Oh, I did most of it wrong, having been..."
September 28, 2018:   "Civil War Song" Heather Green   "snows still we are deceived..."
September 27, 2018:   "Found to be Borrowed from Some Material Appearance 1" Donna Stonecipher   "She was reading a newspaper article about the Amber Room, stolen from Russia by the..."
September 26, 2018:   "Tsunami" Christopher Bolin   "The netting at the surface of the water..."
September 25, 2018:   "[In a story seldom remembered, sharks were ghosts]" Rob Carney   "In a story seldom remembered, sharks were ghosts..."
September 24, 2018:   "Our Creation of Feminism" Laurie Filipelli   "In the beginning, an endless tiara..."
September 23, 2018:   "Seahorse" Lauren Goodwin Slaughter   "The coronet is distinctive..."
September 22, 2018:   "The Liars" Allison Joseph   "How I admire their skills..."
September 21, 2018:   "After the Wishing Star Goes Down" Neil Shepard   "Supper was sober tonight..."
September 20, 2018:   "Salt" Sohini Basak   "We sit at the table passing around the blame...."
September 19, 2018:   "Outshines Its Canopy of Intent" Jane Miller   "We were up late and everyone had been drinking, and someone said, Hey, is that God's..."
September 18, 2018:   "The Clinic Bomber's Mother" Shara Lessley   "The trick, she guesses, is: be seen. Offer..."
September 17, 2018:   "Vine" Daniel Lawless   "I must have watched it twenty times..."
September 16, 2018:   "On a postage stamp with very small letters" Thomas Kabdebo   "The wind is asleep on the wings of a wasp..."
September 15, 2018:   "'Tell the angels not to touch me/ without permission'" Adeeba Shahid Talukder   "Beauty is a constant state..."
September 14, 2018:   "Sparrowhawk" Nicki Griffin   "Like any bird that's hit greenhouse glass..."
September 13, 2018:   "Post-Orpheus" Daniel Tobin   "Suns, choiring strings above..."
September 12, 2018:   "The Body Dreams Itself" Sharon Fagan McDermott   "into an avenue of steam, the streetlights..."
September 11, 2018:   "First Snow" Andrea Hollander   "My friend said the first snow always felt..."
September 10, 2018:   "streets of the world" Anne Waldman   "All writing decides a galaxy all writing resounds planispheric history...."
September 9, 2018:   "Listen," Karen L. George   "follow me into the dim..."
September 8, 2018:   "Hummingbird" Maya Catherine Popa   "Knocking against my Southwest window..."
September 7, 2018:   "Ice Would Suffice" Risa Denenberg   "How swift, how far..."
September 6, 2018:   "Sleeping Alone" Amy Miller   "Listening..."
September 5, 2018:   "Expedition" Frederick Pollack   "When the fact of peak oil began to seep..."
September 4, 2018:   "Reasoning" Jane Commane   "It wasn't as imagined. Not hand drawn..."
September 3, 2018:   "Home" Richard Jones   "As I grow older..."
September 2, 2018:   "Saints" Danielle Hanson   "The benefit of being stone is that time..."
September 1, 2018:   "Persephone" Brian Kirk   "She walked into the Sheaf of Wheat..."
August 31, 2018:   "Orpheus" Stuart Bartow   "All the night's fleeting drama once we wake..."
August 30, 2018:   "The night my father was robbed" Hiwot Adilow   "I ran downstairs with a hammer & turned on every light...."
August 29, 2018:   "Law of Resemblances" Leonard Kress   "An entire August when I was five..."
August 28, 2018:   "August Quake" Jacqueline Lyons   "Today's quake was centered in summer's end, in flowers..."
August 27, 2018:   "Elegy" Paul J. Willis   "In the water left from the waitress's rag..."
August 26, 2018:   "Wild Strawberry" Paul J. Willis   "These strawberry fields, if not forever..."
August 25, 2018:   "Triangulation" Sierra Golden   "With salmon stacked to the door, she squishes through fish..."
August 24, 2018:   "Four days after Mother's Day," Julie L. Moore   "her husband enters the house, & again, her body shakes..."
August 23, 2018:   "The way a drop" Shira Dentz   "of shortening dissolves into batter..."
August 22, 2018:   "Wildfire" Sally Albiso   "The inferno persists...."
August 21, 2018:   "The Raided Nest" Thomas March   "Her ritual of raiding was to wait..."
August 20, 2018:   "Disbpj682ing Colors in Prison" Nancy Miller Gomez   "Do they ever disbpj682 new colors? he asks.,.."
August 19, 2018:   "My Father Is a Mansion" by Adam Falkner   "made entirely of myths,..."
August 17, 2018:   "Cassandra talks in her sleep" by Annie Stenzel   "But if you're waiting for me..."
August 16, 2018:   "Inside A Girl" by Elizabeth O'Brien   "is hot house..."
August 15, 2018:   "American Pastoral" by Sue D. Burton   "Autumn. House-of-no-need. Death..."
August 14, 2018:   "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" by Terrance Hayes   "In a parallel world where all Dr. Who's..."
August 13, 2018:   "as an epilogue melting in the snow bpj682ed sand" by Sade LaNay   "let me loose clarity. sometimes i am who am..."
August 12, 2018:   "Sketches of Lorca" by Lorna Knowles Blake   "It's winter and the night is cold, but still he feels..."
August 11, 2018:   "Rewrite" by Daniel Blokh   "In another world noise..."
August 10, 2018:   "Placing Our Feet with Care on This Earth" by Peggy Shumaker   "In Los Angeles, my friend will soon learn to walk...."
August 9, 2018:   "Hit, Run" by Dawn Manning   "The husk..."
August 8, 2018:   "Oracle" by Donika Kelly   "The god in my brain..."
August 7, 2018:   "as a wreath of wallflowers and nonconformity in the hair" by Sade LaNay   "i am concerned...."
August 6, 2018:   "Making The Centaur" by Jennifer Moss   "It seemed the horse arrived with the wind..."
August 5, 2018:   "Our Lady of Whatever" by Alison Pelegrin   "I shall require a toolbox shrine, with mirrored walls..."
August 4, 2018:   "Holy Week, Acadiana" by Nancy Reddy   "One whole holy week no air moved in town...."
August 3, 2018:   "Where There's Still a Little Light" by Thomas Mitchell   "It's late and everything settles..."
August 2, 2018:   "For the Well Intentioned Folks Who Say Writing Is Therapeutic" by Catherine Bresner   "Write, they say, like a band-aid..."
August 1, 2018:   "Surviving//Skin" by Hazem Fahmy   "In America, I imagine..."
July 31, 2018:   "High School Reunion" by Matt W. Miller   "The cheap cocktails smudge the lens and ..."
July 30, 2018:   "[Once migrant, immigrant]" by Cecilia Woloch   "Once migrant, immigrant..."
July 29, 2018:   "Done" by Richard Greenfield   "They say "tender" and tender..."
July 28, 2018:   "This City" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou   "The ruins urge you to find a new city..."
July 27, 2018:   "You Are Not Grass" by Sarah Sousa   "The last wild passenger pigeon was named..."
July 26, 2018:   "Wants" by Susan Eisenberg   "Two things she wanted among the left-behinds when her parents..."
July 25, 2018:   "Death of a Species" by John Barr   "The long republic shells the long republic..."
July 24, 2018:   "Milkweed" by Sarah Barber   "Linnaeus missed the fish in it-the seeds..."
July 23, 2018:   "Things in the Cellar" by James Haug   "He wanted to go down to the cellar but it wasn't allowed. He..."
July 22, 2018:   "Departure Story" by Abby Chew   "On the hilltop above the den, we mount..."
July 21, 2018:   "Tuesdays I Wear Perfume for a Bison" by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow   "When the garden greens lean into a narrow bitter..."
July 20, 2018:   "You Look Like a Ghost" by LM Rivera   "The Romantic poets would be absorbed..."
July 19, 2018:   "Cersei" by Leah Umansky   "She walks for all of us. A lead-and-follow dance. Arrow..."
July 18, 2018:   "Waxer" by Ted Kooser   "I once watched a man wax a hallway..."
July 17, 2018:   "Words as Wind, and Wind" by Bin Ramke   "Across the sound the sound..."
July 16, 2018:   "Inaugural Poem" by Paul Guest   "America, I haven't slept..."
July 15, 2018:   "The Birdhouse in the Jungle" by Diana Khoi Nguyen   "The sky black with swans..."
July 14, 2018:   "Grease Trap" by Jon Tribble   "The places the things in this world go to die..."
July 13, 2018:   "5.1" by Melissa Atkinson Mercer   "the nest of deer whispers to itself like a lost city // I..."
July 12, 2018:   "Two Birds Mating In A Rhododendron Bush" by Jennifer O'Grady   "If only it could be..."
July 11, 2018:   "Self-Portrait in Euphemisms" by Samantha Zighelboim   "Isn't she pretty. A thin film of moon..."
July 10, 2018:   "What Ward Prefers" by Ryan Vine   "Yes, Ward is a delicate one, hardened..."
July 9, 2018:   "Local News" by Jared Harél   "Terrified we'd die happy and rich..."
July 8, 2018:   "Lucent" by Jeri Theriault   "Rich in consonants, eclipse cuts..."
July 7, 2018:   "The Taxidermist Takes on an Apprentice" by Patty Paine   "When asked, she says it started with chickens..."
July 6, 2018:   "Gods & Demagogues" by Jonathan Greene   "Studying the hard questions...."
July 5, 2018:   "Heat Wave (Poem for Novica Tadic Perhaps)" by Mark Wagenaar   "It was so hot people were unzipping..."
July 4, 2018:   "Some part of yourself, then—vast, repeating—" by Doreen Gildroy   "Sometimes I climb myself. I hear Sarah..."
July 3, 2018:   "Uncreated Light" by Doreen Gildroy   "Yours was the death, yours was the dying...."
July 2, 2018:   "Jesus's Brother" by Charles Rafferty   "It was difficult living..."
July 1, 2018:   "Perseids, Later" by Veronica Patterson   "A tease of clouds intermits..."
June 30, 2018:   "What Mountains Do" by George Drew   "Last night it was raining when I went to bed..."
June 29, 2018:   "Unhinge" by Amy Orazio   "Although there is..."
June 28, 2018:   "Do squirrels remember where they bury their nuts?" by Caroline Cabrera   "The Hindus have it right—I lost any houseplant I ever loved...."
June 27, 2018:   "O Great Terrible On" by Leslie Contreras Schwartz   "The Hindus have it right—Shiva—in one hand you create..."
June 26, 2018:   "Heart Attack" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "Our father left us with his heartby..."
June 25, 2018:   "Infidel" by Maureen Seaton   "Don't pretend you've got a corner on grave idols..."
June 24, 2018:   "Cemetery Poem" by J.D. Scrimgeour   "Sooner or later every poet writes a cemetery poem...."
June 23, 2018:   "Anticipation" by Anne Fitzgerald   "From afar it comes like the smell of rain..."
June 22, 2018:   "Trayvon's High School Reunion" by Jason McCall   "We'll have to shoot..."
June 21, 2018:   "The Health of Us" by Claudia Rankine   "We heard health care and we thought public option..."
June 20, 2018:   "Bones in the Soil" by Kwame Dawes   "These empty landscapes; the entanglement..."
June 19, 2018:   "American Arithmetic" by Natalie Diaz   "Native Americans make up less than..."
June 18, 2018:   "Autism" by Roddy Lumsden   "Some nights I catch the smell..."
June 17, 2018:   "Emergency" by Eric Greinke & Alison Stone   "A siren blares down the highway..."
June 16, 2018:   "Song" by Athena Kildegaard   "At any given time she only owned..."
June 15, 2018:   "Outside In" by Diana Cole   "I am outside looking in..."
June 14, 2018:   "Our Love and Some Objects" by Nano Taggart   "The wilting kerosene light spills a patina..."
June 13, 2018:   "Voices" by Jeremy Robson   "Is it ever our own voice..."
June 12, 2018:   "Cake" by Wayne Holloway-Smith   "When first I saw her lips meet another man's face I didn't think..."
June 11, 2018:   "Welcome to the United States" by Joanne Limburg   "Halfway to the home of the deceased..."
June 10, 2018:   "Persistence As Life Force" by Laverne Frith   "the battery weakens..."
June 9, 2018:   "Qasida of the Pinecone" by P. Scott Cunningham   "The pinecone..."
June 8, 2018:   "Survivor" by Nellie Goodwin   "The doe browses in the open..."
June 7, 2018:   "I called desire a lie that wants a cure," by Henrietta Goodman   "I called desire a lie that wants a cure..."
June 6, 2018:   "Alternate Facts" by Sonia Greenfield   "We never thought it could happen here..."
June 5, 2018:   "Was Losing My Joie De Vivre Really Like" by Adrian Blevins   "regular melancholy got mad one day..."
June 3, 2018:   "Listen Up    Medusa" by Michael Homolka   "Seduced by your statuesque..."
June 2, 2018:   "burning nebraska" by Robert Lee Kendrick   "for something that lies below..."
June 1, 2018:   "Information" by Karen Neuberg   "I see another spectacle blocking my view..."
May 31, 2018:   "Advice from a Bat" by Michael T. Young   "Hunt only at night. Fly erratically...."
May 30, 2018:   "Surf City" by Peter Mishler   "On the bronzed trays in the open-air bars..."
May 29, 2018:   "The Bird" by Aaron Brown   "They brought it from the wetlands around Fitri..."
May 27, 2018:   "On the Eve of a Hard Seventy" by Sarah Voss   "I woke with the vision of turning blue..."
May 26, 2018:   "On Uncanoonuc Mountain" by D. Walsh Gilbert   "We sat on the ledge near Tipping Rock..."
May 25, 2018:   "If Only You Could See Me As I Want To Be Seen" by Lynn Schmeidler   "This young woman has ten boyfriends..."
May 24, 2018:   "Our Love as Lead Belly or" by Sean Thomas Dougherty   "What howling, what teeth pick..."
May 23, 2018:   "A Different Witching Hour" by Tami Haaland   "What my friend calls it, different..."
May 22, 2018:   "Wolf Heaven" by Kai Carlson-Wee   "In the last letter you wrote me, sealed in castor wax..."
May 21, 2018:   "Immigration Interview with Don Franciso" by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo   "In the church was the deepest..."
May 20, 2018:   "Three" by Sharron Singleton   "Two is just this and that..."
May 19, 2018:   "Lower Lights" by Alice Derry   "As if a universe of black holes weren't out there..."
May 18, 2018:   "Verge" by Kathryn Rhett   "There is the shopping center...."
May 17, 2018:   "Mary Shelley" by Virginia Konchan   "You are the furthest thing..."
May 16, 2018:   "Aubade" by David Yezzi   "I wake up in my old house..."
May 15, 2018:   "Hive" by Melissa Stein   "In the night, fear's stepchild: all hail..."
May 14, 2018:   "The Lost Moon" by Ha Jin   "Like you, I too lost my moon...."
May 13, 2018:   "Cyclops" by Lauren Moseley   "God said I am a cyclops..."
May 12, 2018:   "Persephone" by Brian Sneeden   "Again she goes aground, seeking love..."
May 11, 2018:   "The Deer in December" by Tammy Robacker   "Since your death..."
May 10, 2018:   "Poem for Early Morning, Not an Aubade" by Peter Cooley   "Wonderfully established, the sun across my plate..."
May 9, 2018:   "The Hardware of the Brain" by Geraldine Connolly   "You might suddenly be in the middle..."
May 8, 2018:   "At the Graveyard" by Carl Dennis   "Now they don't need a thing from us..."
May 7, 2018:   "Gun Control: a Triptych" by Carol Muske-Dukes   "When the older brother, horsing around, opened fire..."
May 6, 2018:   "Letters To The Husband # 85" by Mary A. Koncel   "Our children are dirty...."
May 5, 2018:   "Alice in USA Land" by Julie Egdell   "The rectory umbrella..."
May 4, 2018:   "If l Start Talking About It Now I Won't Stop Hollering" by Anne Barngrover   "A man once told me sweetness..."
May 3, 2018:   "Things a Girl Should Know" by Aimée Baker   "Remember / to keep your eyes open when you dance..."
May 2, 2018:   "The Hummingbird Nest" by Pascale Petit   "I bring you a hummingbird's nest, woven..."
May 1, 2018:   "The Days That Were Have Now" by Emilia Phillips   " in all eyes a witness...."
April 30, 2018:   "Drone" by Emily Rosko   "The images are precise and anonymous...."
April 29, 2018:   "I Was Hovering Just Below the Hospital Ceiling, Contemplating My Death" by Alexis Rhone Fancher   "when I glanced down and saw my body..."
April 28, 2018:   "Interior with Sky" by Justin Sherwood   "Push where the entrance..."
April 27, 2018:   "Nightstick" by Joy Priest   "in Kentucky you are a Black girl, but don't know. you sleep..."
April 26, 2018:   "The House" by Lori Lamothe   "is not a shell, echoes pingponging..."
April 25, 2018:   "Lake Scene in Winter" by Jude Cowan Montague   "Into the cold they go..."
April 24, 2018:   "Some Days" by Christopher P. Collins   "with this bayonet..."
April 23, 2018:   "Permeable Divide" by Ellen Rachlin   "We are together in a galaxy called Loss...."
April 22, 2018:   "White" by Clint Margrave   "In my parents' house, everything was white...."
April 21, 2018:   "Breakup" by Abe Louise Young   "I finally..."
April 19, 2018:   "Pastels" by Sarah Green   "I don't know this morning, with its glissandos..."
April 18, 2018:   "Aubade" by Noĕl Hanlon   "I had waited, with growing hunger..."
April 17, 2018:   "This dream the world is having about itself..." by Carolyne Wright   "won't let us go. The western sky gathers..."
April 16, 2018:   "Loriella is Dead" by Jennifer Maritza McCauley   "Yesterday Loriella choke-cried into my phone..."
April 15, 2018:   "Harmony in Red, 1908, Henri Matisse" by Elizabeth Paul   "The meniscus of a fainter orange or paler lemon is a concession of..."
April 14, 2018:   "Three Wise Men, No Camels" by Marc Swan   "At first, the stream is older couples..."
April 13, 2018:   "Sex Ed" by Jacqueline Berger   "Popular in part for the pharmacy..."
April 12, 2018:   "What do you save" by Karen Paul Holmes   "when a wildfire swarms toward your home?..."
April 11, 2018:   "A Tune to Remember" by Anna M. Evans   "Now that the boats have been lowered to the sea..."
April 10, 2018:   "Aubade" by Rhonda Pettit   "Head heavy..."
April 9, 2018:   "+ [There is a glass of water]" by Dan Kaplan   "There is a glass of water..."
April 8, 2018:   "Jealousy" by Lynn Marie Houston   "I am thinking of the pictures..."
April 7, 2018:   "María Cristina Hanging Chrysalis" by Claudia Castro Luna   "What would I do..."
April 6, 2018:   "Staging the Invisible" by Fernando Pérez   "Except for the odd ha-ha here and there..."
April 5, 2018:   "Aubade with Cutlery and Crickets" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   "In the dinner I cook for myself tonight..."
April 4, 2018:   "Heliotrope, Or Man's Mind Angles Inevitably Toward God" by Derek Mong   "No sliver of self    held in reserve, no..."
April 3, 2018:   "The body, said Alice," by Beth Spencer   "opening her shirt to show..."
April 2, 2018:   "Living with Fog" by Lynne Knight   "In the famous cemetery, the souls of the famous dead..."
April 1, 2018:   "Cherry" by Elisabeth Meyer   "Slang, as in: he took, he stole, she lost...."
March 31, 2018:   "Vanishing Point" by Grant Clauser   "When he passes his hand over the card deck..."
March 30, 2018:   "Show Off" by Allison Joseph   "Come flaunt your imperfections..."
March 29, 2018:   "Survival" by Lisa Dordal   "Inside the pizzeria, love's latest news was carved..."
March 28, 2018:   "Mercy" by Melissa Cundieff   "You spoke nonsense in your fever: my mother..."
March 27, 2018:   "Jill Falls for Jack" by Michelle Menting   "Really, they fell from bramble-scrawled oak trees..."
March 26, 2018:   "Surrounded By Aliens" by Tom C. Hunley   "Who isn't a baby in a blanket..."
March 25, 2018:   "Two Selfie Poems" by Edward Denniston   "Out of a biting north westerly..."
March 24, 2018:   "Catalyst for Ordination #1" by Travis Cebula   "it has been said..."
March 23, 2018:   "Anasazi" by Tacey M. Atsitty   "How can we die when we're already..."
March 22, 2018:   "CONFESSION OF THE PAID EXPERT..." by Ed Pavlić   "it's why you can't say you need me..."
March 21, 2018:   "A Brief History of Hysteria" by Libby Burton   "All of this magic is death..."
March 20, 2018:   "American Wedding" by Shayla Lawson   "'People always try..."
March 19, 2018:   "How We Respond Is What It Means" by Marc McKee   "At this time it is impossible not to love..."
March 18, 2018:   "In my last relationship, I was a television" by Hannah Cohen   "You used to grope weather..."
March 17, 2018:   "Contemporary" by Arno Kramer   "How could it be a bit more contemporary? Something with an..."
March 16, 2018:   "[it starts in rage not anger or rancour...]" by Ahren Warner   "it starts in rage not anger or rancour or a bitch cornered..."
March 15, 2018:   "Again" by James Tolan   "Gray clouds bluing into fog..."
March 14, 2018:   "Dayshift Caught in the Ribs" by Carly Joy Miller   "To crash into the architecture..."
March 13, 2018:   "Dearest Federico" by Sam Roxas-Chua   "Inside of a room, sits a box...."
March 12, 2018:   "Break" by Mike White   "Off the interstate..."
March 11, 2018:   "Elton John" by Diana Goetsch   "I remember when he was the measure of cool..."
March 10, 2018:   "What We Didn't Want" by Sarah A. Chavez   "I don't know how other people kill bugs, but my family used fire...."
March 9, 2018:   "Final Notice" by Eamonn Lynskey   "After every holiday..."
March 8, 2018:   "Self-Portrait as a Boy in A Musician Family" by Natalie Giarratano   "My papa told me to keep a sparrow..."
March 7, 2018:   "Orpheus, Asymptote" by Amy Meng   "I've tasted bones from the butcher's..."
March 6, 2018:   from "Leaving Behind" by Martha Collins   "door to door the angel no the Lord..."
March 5, 2018:   "18." by Bruce Bond   "If the head were the lord of the body..."
March 4, 2018:   "Where I Don't Live" by Cheryl Wilder   "Tiny squares, triangles and hexagons..."
March 3, 2018:   "Shakespeare's Lovers" by Ian Parks   "Shakespeare's lovers lean into the light...."
March 2, 2018:   "Relaxation Tape" by Claire Wahmanholm   "We were asked to start with our eyes open...."
March 1, 2018:   "How a Hand is Made" by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick   "How someone ever thought..."
February 28, 2018:   "Seven Year Quake" by Jacqueline Lyons   "This year's quake was centered in the body seven years ago...."
February 27, 2018:   "What I Wanted" by Patricia Clark   "I wanted to lift you up, especially you, Patricia M...."
February 26, 2018:   "Hopscotch Highway" by Terry Wolverton   "I should have known better than to wear..."
February 25, 2018:   "Fire and flood" by William Wall   "our house flooded from the sea..."
February 24, 2018:   "The Slow Master of Lenin" by S.J. Litherland   "He cut my hair into shapes of a Japanese fan...."
February 23, 2018:   "I AM AN ORCHID" by Rachel B. Glaser   "which means I can die at any moment..."
February 22, 2018:   "Things that cannot be compared" by Kimiko Hahn & Tamiko Beyer   "Evening and day...."
February 21, 2018:   "Postcard 1908: Death-tropes of the Feminine" by Kathleen Winter   "Shall never forget the spread..."
February 20, 2018:   "Getting Lost" by Wesley McNair   "I'm not proud of it, but I couldn't resist..."
February 19, 2018:   "Yom Asal, Yom Basal" by Chana Bloch   "In every maybe the fear of yes...."
February 18, 2018:   "Middle Passage" by Len Lawson   "Praise the river and the ocean weeps red..."
February 17, 2018:   "When the Tamaracks Turn Yellow" by David Budbill   "When the tamaracks turn yellow..."
February 16, 2018:   "[nothing but my body]" by Jean Daive   "nothing but my body..."
February 15, 2018:   "Fort Not" by Emily Skillings   "I'm not really that kind..."
February 14, 2018:   "Owls" by Robert Hedin   "Owls glide off the thin..."
February 13, 2018:   "Dreams of Foxes" by Ewa Chrusciel   "Making music with its bone, fox triangulate..."
February 12, 2018:   "I could know him, and like him, " by Elisa Gabbert   "without understanding..."
February 11, 2018:   "[I will misunderstand for a long time]" by Laura Neuman   "RI will misunderstand for a long time..."
February 10, 2018:   "If I Forgive You" by Cindy Veach   "Red blur of cardinal..."
February 9, 2018:   "Inventory" by Michael McGriff   "We've driven beyond the night..."
February 8, 2018:   "[I Carry Your Taste as if It Were A Stone]" by Hillary Gravendyk   "I carry your taste as if it were a stone...."
February 7, 2018:   "Life Sentences Sonnet for The Goddess" by Henry Wei Leung   "You were born in papier-mâché..."
February 6, 2018:   "My Father's Gun" by Juliana Gray   "Caliber, I couldn't say..."
February 5, 2018:   "Caesar" by W. S. Merwin   "My shoes are almost dead..."
February 4, 2018:   "Studying Russian on Company Time" by Clemens Starck   "Act like you're reading the sports page...."
February 3, 2018:   "One of the Many Stories of Sounds" by Jürgen Becker (translated by Okla Elliott)   "It was a quiet afternoon...."
February 2, 2018:   "The Song of the Practical" by Albert Goldbarth   "Increasingly, those water lilies of Claude Monet's..."
February 1, 2018:   "Spring Creek" by Dan Gerber   "Standing at ease in the current..."
January 31, 2018:   "Triceratops ♥ You" by Owen McLeod   "The bottle says one but Triceratops..."
January 30, 2018:   "Strangeness" by Ghassan Zaqtan   "Tiny mirrors released me into my mother's palms..."
January 29, 2018:   "El Salvador" by Javier Zamora   "Salvador, if I return on a summer day, so humid my thumb..."
January 28, 2018:   "You: An Apparition" by Myronn Hardy   "The you not there...."
January 27, 2018:   "Silentium" by Miller Oberman   "The sun didn't set, but like a fallen rider..."
January 26, 2018:   "salvage" by Rachel McKibbens   "I have learned to need the body..."
January 25, 2018:   "Finding Work After War" by H. C. Palmer   "For a long time there were simultaneous..."
January 24, 2018:   "Troubleshooting" by Bojan Louis   "She wasn't better off to drive—weave..."
January 23, 2018:   "History of America" by Terry Ann Thaxton   "We wrote one another a lot..."
January 22, 2018:   "Mail" by John Freeman   "We wrote one another a lot..."
January 21, 2018:   "There" by Beth Copeland   "Snapped string..."
January 20, 2018:   "bone" by Yrsa Daley-Ward   "From One..."
January 19, 2018:   "Old Fish" by Sheryl St. Germain   "This is what she knows..."
January 18, 2018:   "The Octopus Diaries" by Ann A. Philips   "Little udder body, half dead. 5 buck from the raw bar. Brought it home..."
January 17, 2018:   "How after Snowmelt" by Michelle Menting   "We checked off our likes, our wants..."
January 16, 2018:   "Lost Siblings" by Cheryl Hopson   "I imagine our difference as a flower garden..."
January 15, 2018:   "A Brief History of Evolution" by Jim Daniels   "God carved his name in cement...."
January 14, 2018:   "Van Gogh's Bedroom" by Andrea Potos   "Forget the filmed theories, written explications..."
January 13, 2018:   "Where There Is Rejoicing, There Should Be Trembling" by Laura Foley   "A fracture of no consequence..."
January 12, 2018:   "Your Body" by Corey Mesler   "How it doesn't carry you around...."
January 11, 2018:   "[ ]" by Sahar Muradi   "The one that belonged to her..."
January 10, 2018:   "Traitor" by Heather Derr-Smith   "You were always so afraid. The loss you lived with..."
January 9, 2018:   "Lecture on Emptiness" by Robert Hunter Jones   "My wife no longer wants to hear from me..."
January 8, 2018:   "Those two solitary men" by Pablo Neruda   "Those two solitary men..."
January 6, 2018:   "Windfarm at Sea" by Philip Gross   "Wind flowers..."
January 5, 2018:   "My sister retreats to the vanishing point." by Christine Gardiner   "My father sleeps, diminished, in the foreground...."
January 4, 2018:   "Fall of the Year" by Jane Gentry   "Penniless women, their children, and ragtag..."
January 3, 2018:   "January" by David Rigsbee   "Being a man, I was the least..."
January 2, 2018:   "New Year's" by Rachel Danielle Peterson   "Exhale if ya can in mute Ohio, silent after the scene ends...."
January 1, 2018 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Two Stanza Republic" by Lauren Hilger   "A baby calls out from each room...."
December 31, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Rain, New Year's Eve" by Maggie Smith   "The rain is a broken piano..."
December 30, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Raise" by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb   "I need a safe house everywhere I go...."
December 29, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "I Lied" by Richard Chess   "I lied. I didn't lie. Someone close, very close to me lied...."
December 28, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Trans Memoir 8" by Sara June Woods   "Everything was lava for a while, really...."
December 27, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Leda, After" by Rebecca Morgan Frank   "I felt the needle go in...."
December 26, 2017 (A 2017 Favorite):   "Look Up" by Raymond McDaniel   "For a model of a gravity well, picture an actual well...."
December 25, 2017:   "Forecast" by Charles Rafferty   "Famous people have been dying all week and the Christmas tree just..."
December 24, 2017:   "Annual Report" by Richard Widerkehr   "Spring sends me its prospectus..."
December 23, 2017:   "My Mother" by Bianca Tarozzi (translated by Jeanne Foster & Alan Williamson)   "My mother was always faraway in thought..."
December 22, 2017:   "Bird Talk" by Chrissy Williams   "I would love to tickle your cat..."
December 21, 2017:   "Scarlet Macaws" by Pascale Petit   "The scarlet macaws want their red back..."
December 20, 2017:   "At The Standard" by Roddy Lumsden   "I cried all morning, said Francesca...."
December 19, 2017:   "Break Up" by Jody Porter   "State, you have been reckless with my heart..."
December 18, 2017:   "Everything's Political" by Noah Wareness   "The words are the power the words would destroy...."
December 17, 2017:   "Burntwood" by Jenna Clake   "We smelt of the vinegar that used to..."
December 16, 2017:   "Things To Look Forward To" by Donald Markos   "We shall send new things to plague you..."
December 15, 2017:   "Baba Yaga Advises Red Riding Hood" by Lana Hechtman Ayers   "I've pulled the plow..."
December 14, 2017:   "Şoricel" by Tara Skurtu   "The soul is a white mouse..."
December 13, 2017:   "Gravity" by Carla Kirchner   "They've taken away Pluto...."
December 12, 2017:   "The Cree Word For a Body Like Mine is Weesageechak" by Billy-Ray Belcourt   "the cree word for a body like mine is weesageechak. the old ones know..."
December 11, 2017:   "Cinders Of" by Lisa Olstein   "Never before have I found airplanes..."
December 10, 2017:   "Aaubade (Lisa Lisa Lisa)" by James Harms   "Sometimes I kiss the inch..."
December 9, 2017:   "Afro-Seattleite Fragment #17: Love Letter To Macklemore" by Malcolm Friend   "Your music saved a shy Black boy..."
December 8, 2017:   "Epistle to the Cops on a Wintry Night" by Cal Freeman   "Dear historical ambling..."
December 7, 2017:   "Qasida of 700,000 Years of Love" by Shadab Zeest Hashmi   "So Death's muscle was pulp, a breeze past a..."
December 6, 2017:   "Donut Shop" by David Hernandez   "The oversized pink donut fashioned on the roof..."
December 5, 2017:   "Most Bizarre Beauty Queens of the 1950's" by Nicky Beer   "It's easy to snicker at the Sausage Queen..."
December 4, 2017:   "Saudade" by Traci Brimhall   "Each time I start, the explorers and tyrants..."
December 3, 2017:   "Letter from Hollywood" by Mandy Kahn   "Let's not ever swell to rich..."
December 2, 2017:   "New Build" by Tim Dooley   "Between developments..."
December 1, 2017:   "Apologia for Lechers" by Jasmine V. Bailey   "When you see the topless teenage girls..."
November 30, 2017:   "Last Will" by Aaron Anstett   "What will the children say if I say I fear..."
November 29, 2017:   "The Fabulous Never-Lark" by Michael Brooks Cryer   "Thinking about your favorite musical..."
November 28, 2017:   "Leda, After" by Rebecca Morgan Frank   "I felt the needle go in...."
November 27, 2017:   "If No Energy Can Be Created or Destroyed" by Erin Rodoni   "Before she turned the ultrasound..."
November 26, 2017:   "Beast Body" by Kathryn Smith   "I made my skin of leaves. Clean ones...."
November 25, 2017:   "Wrist Beep" by Albert Goldbarth   "Once there weren't even cell phones..."
November 24, 2017:   "Sometimes in One's Twenties" by Diane Furtney   "Coasting out into the open..."
November 23, 2017:   "An American Poem" by Krystal Languell   "I dreamed Eileen Myles told me I was dressing too sexy...."
November 22, 2017:   "The Owl in the Woodwork" by Ron Domen   "I soared over darkened..."
November 21, 2017:   "Evensong" by Sheila Nickerson   "The little brown bat at the forest's edge..."
November 20, 2017:   "Hair on Fire" by Jim Daniels   "We ironed fall leaves..."
November 19, 2017:   "Jupiter, Florida" by Maureen Sherbondy   "80 degrees, unusually hot for winter...."
November 18, 2017:   "Safety in Numbers" by Anne Tannam   "Yes I'm awake...."
November 17, 2017:   "I Am Afraid" by Pablo Neruda (translated by William O'Daly)   "I'm afraid. The evening is gray and the sadness..."
November 16, 2017:   "Vault 55." by Kathleen Peirce   "To meet the unmet lover..."
November 15, 2017:   "Barbie Chang is Done" by Victoria Chang   "Barbie Chang is done worshipping the...."
November 14, 2017:   "Mugwump" by Sebastian Agudelo   "If you got to look it up, don't use it...."
November 13, 2017:   "Heart" by Hadara Bar-Nadav   "A bad word..."
November 12, 2017:   "Happiness" by Sharon Chmielarz   "He hadn't been drinking, not for a Long Time, but things..."
November 11, 2017:   "Evensong" by Norita Dittberner-Jax   "Walking the river trail..."
November 10, 2017:   "Portrait of My Mother as a Dried Sunflower" by Pauletta Hansel   "The round shape of you..."
November 9, 2017:   "Keeping Watch" by Richard Hague   "This man who sleeps in his clothes..."
November 8, 2017:   "How to Ask for a House in Poetry" by Mark Granier   "I ask for a house that keeps..."
November 7, 2017:   "Song of the Good Body" by Jeffrey Bean   "Dawn-sick rose-sick word-sick worm-round..."
November 6, 2017:   "Invitation with Dirty Hands" by Shelley Wong   "In the blue house, my table examines..."
November 5, 2017:   "Little What" by Jeff Oaks   "In the darkness. What a sonnet. When muscle..."
November 4, 2017:   "Letter to the Turkey Vulture on the Side of the Road Eating a Dead Deer's Eye" by Ace Boggess   "you have to be the ugliest ferryman..."
November 3, 2017:   "A Poem with Three Lines from One Night in Portland" by Elizabyth Hiscox   "While others of fine wine claimed to be experts..."
November 2, 2017:   "My Political Poem" by Aaron Poochigian   "Election Night. A Walman parking lot...."
November 1, 2017:   "Poem for a Predator" by Michael Collins   "Do you hate me or crave me past sanity?..."
October 31, 2017:   "Denial" by Anne Casey   "You are not the serpent..."
October 30, 2017:   "Setting Fire" by Karl Riordan   "I'd notice first, amber balls of your heels..."
October 29, 2017:   "The Sound of Oars" by Sierra Golden   "I'm here, Jack, like you say, listening to the sound of oars..."
October 28, 2017:   "Shades of Orpheus, with a nod to Barnes" by Petrarch (translated by Lee Harlin Bahan)   "My eyes, the light of our life has been eclipsed..."
October 27, 2017:   "The Family" by Chana Bloch   "Inside the Russian woman there's..."
October 26, 2017:   "The Dictator's Wife, or Mildred Aristide Prepares to Address the Congressional Black Caucus" by Cherene Sherrard   "Visionaries seldom find respite..."
October 25, 2017:   "When the Horseshoe Crab Grieves" by Sarah Giragosian   "Dying, I confide in starfish and lightning...."
October 24, 2017:   "November" by Emily Grosholz   "My friend, it seems as if we know at last..."
October 22, 2017:   "What Remains" by Collin Kelley   "We arrived in Paris on a rainy Sunday..."
October 21, 2017:   "Pet Shop" by Robert S. Pesich   "People are wandering the aisles..."
October 20, 2017:   "Andy Warhol Left Those Parties by Midnight" by Sarah Sarai   "You will not wake at 7..."
October 19, 2017:   "Only Child" by Paul Hostovsky   "In my one and only childhood..."
October 18, 2017:   "American Dusk" by Jessica Goodfellow   "Beneath a stagger of stars the herd untangles..."
October 17, 2017:   "Beyond the Useful Life" by Brandon Krieg   "A crow drinks rain from a paint bucket's overturned lid...."
October 16, 2017:   "Odysseus" by WS Merwin   "Always the setting forth was the same..."
October 15, 2017:   "Loss" by Rodney Gomez   "Lately l have been a gap...."
October 14, 2017:   "For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow" by Alexis Rhone Fancher   "beyond the kitchen 's swinging door..."
October 13, 2017:   "Black Locusts" by Cameron Barnett   "There are no gardens in my neighborhood..."
October 12, 2017:   "Runaway Military Surveillance Blimp Drifts from Maryland to Pennsylvania" by Jehanne Dubrow   "The aerostat looks less like a balloon..."
October 11, 2017:   "Yö" by Samantha Leigh Futhey   "Two vowels held like loose cartilage..."
October 9, 2017:   "A Wind Comes Through" by Mary Ann Samyn   "and buttercups respond. A beautiful set-up..."
October 8, 2017:   "Waveland Mississippi, an Elegy" by Ösel Jessica Plante   "Treaded and unlaced by the cattails the dun-..."
October 7, 2017:   "Light Speed" by James Heflin   "He fashioned a telescope one day. He turned knobs and..."
October 6, 2017:   "to flense" by Matthew Minicucci   "This part of you has a name..."
October 5, 2017:   "Bass Tone Ode" by Wesley Rothman   "Dear heavy note, dear key of gloom, you loom..."
October 4, 2017:   "After the Sonogram" by Ryan Wilson   "Within you, now, a shadow feeds..."
October 3, 2017:   "Friday Night Affair" by Christine Kitano   "When the lights dim, I think again..."
October 2, 2017:   "We Can't Change the Orbits Quite Yet" by Jenny Sadre-Orafai   "We have long talks about..."
October 1, 2017:   "The Slow Envy of Stone" by Ron Houchin   "The overcast sky avalanches down..."
September 30, 2017:   "The Music of Places Going on Without Us" by Tina Kelley   "Four times every minute the twelve-tanned sea shoots a white fusetip..."
September 29, 2017:   "Me and Dickens" by Deborah Bogen   "I used to dream in bird language...."
September 28, 2017:   "It's the Real Thing" by Christine Gosnay   "Underneath a sycamore tree I am sitting on a bench..."
September 27, 2017:   "Sex Toy" by Matthew Guenette   "Some of it made sense; the air pedals..."
September 26, 2017:   "Simple Story" by Ryo Yamaguchi   "When I was twelve my body was made of noise...."
September 25, 2017:   "Police Statement" by Ciara Shuttleworth   "The morning we watched Jesus..."
September 24, 2017:   "After You Left," by Lisa Bickmore   "we crossed the river another dozen times..."
September 23, 2017:   "The Gunny Wolf" by Megan Snyder-Camp   "You've got failure all wrong..."
September 22, 2017:   "Before Snowfall" by Ariel Francisco   "I found Baudelaire on a street corner..."
September 18, 2017:   "Rhythmic Apperception" by Nate Pritts   "I lose my coffee mug somewhere in the house..."
September 17, 2017:   "Shrine" by Glenna Cook   "September morning..."
September 16, 2017:   "Deserves" by Edward O'Dwyer   "She kept onto the photo, to her own surprise..."
September 15, 2017:   "What Came Between A Woman and Her Duties" by Luanne Castle   "On this Friday, in our fair city of Kalamazoo, Recreation Park..."
September 14, 2017:   "Snapshot of a Marriage" by Jane Griffiths   "Returning late, he sees her silhouetted..."
September 13, 2017:   "If It's Magic" by Remica Bingham-Risher   "When I find the Songs in the Key ef life..."
September 12, 2017:   "Spies" by Laura Kasischke   "There may be hundreds of white birds that aren't called..."
September 11, 2017:   "Slow Boil" by Stuart Friebert   "Rocks rising in one place, sinking in another..."
September 10, 2017:   "Sinkhole" by Sarah Carey   "We head for the sinkhole that just opened up..."
September 9, 2017:   "The Nick Of Time" by John Martin   "We lived a block from the East River...."
September 8, 2017:   "The control room" by Pauline Stainer   "Room 29, Home Security..."
September 7, 2017:   "April in Rusheenduff" by Joan McBreen   "These nights in April..."
September 6, 2017:   "A Child's Tyranny" by Linwood D. Rumney   "Sometimes at night..."
September 5, 2017:   "Landscape with Astonished Figures" by Jenny Mueller   "Exactly at Bloomington-Normal..."
September 4, 2017:   "The Clown Family Moved" by Paul Hunter   "THE CLOWN FAMILY MOVED into a big old house late one fall..."
September 3, 2017:   "The Mystery of Systems" by Carl Rosenstock   "Once upon a time, on my way to work..."
September 2, 2017:   "O Wyoming!" by Ben Gantcher   "The little red road..."
September 1, 2017:   "The Family Freezer" by Jodie Hollander   "I am in the freezer, getting numb..."
August 31, 2017:   "The Divine" by Jon Tribble   "I cannot sing but I can listen..."
August 30, 2017:   "There Yet" by A.E. Stringer   "The map is a lie, a blasted web...."
August 29, 2017:   "Evil" by Valerie Bandura   "I hear there's evil in countries beginning with I..."
August 28, 2017:   "Lola and the Wolfhound" by Erica Wright   "For awhile there are two mouths at least,..."
August 27, 2017:   "One Afternoon in the American Civil War" by Henry Crawford   "Says Private Joe to Clara Barton "Why me..."
August 26, 2017:   "Thinking Of You, I Google Your Secret" by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska   "Bridal shower games include: designing dresses out of gauze and..."
August 25, 2017:   "The T'ai Chi of Putting a Sleeping Child to Bed" by Alexandra Lytton Regalado   "In the lull of evening, your son nested in your arms..."
August 24, 2017:   Two poems by Stephen Gibson   "No one knows when my wife plays the piano..."
August 23, 2017:   "Virgule" by Michael McFee   "Its perpendicular..."
August 22, 2017:   "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter   "Worn out the old animal barn with..."
August 21, 2017:   "On Touching My Dog's Cold and Perfect Teeth" by Adam Houle   "I hum Ruby Tuesday when I think of dying...."
August 20, 2017:   "Last Words" by Gayle Brandeis   "A movie villain claimed...."
August 19, 2017:   "Against Elegy" by Adam Tavel   "Mother told me when the snoozing drunk..."
August 18, 2017:   "American Cartography" by Jeffrey Skinner   "Someone's hidden all the fun..."
August 17, 2017:   "Welcome" by Susanna Lang   "Now that you are here, I want you to know..."
August 16, 2017:   "The beautiful American word, Sure" by Simone Muench & Dean Rader   "The beautiful American word, Sure..."
August 15, 2017:   "American Quartet" by Abby Minor   "Warren wants us to be anarchists with him in preparation for apocalyptic shortages of quinces..."
August 14, 2017:   "Little Crown" by Mikko Harvey   "I was tossing a ball up and down while my mother..."
August 13, 2017:   "In Good Times or In Bad" by Maurice Harmon   "In good times or in bad..."
August 12, 2017:   "During Restless Sleep a Scene of Remarkable Stillness" by David Hathwell   "On the far side of a river..."
August 11, 2017:   "Labor Day" by Jessica de Koninck   "These hydrangea have turned all the colors of autumn...."
August 10, 2017:   "Concourse" by Maryann Corbett   "And now, presto—the way dreams change, abruptly—..."
August 9, 2017:   "Comfort" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza   "11 am. time to wake up...."
August 8, 2017:   "Made Short" by Rae Armantrout   "Like us, the quanta..."
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel   "But it was really a lot of time in either a library or..."
August 6, 2017:   "Carnival of Tears" by Richard Milazzo   "'I made two slits in the painting..."
August 5, 2017:   "2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in Their Bathrobes" by Yehoshua November   "2AM, and the rabbinical students stand in their bathrobes..."
August 4, 2017:   "Coyote" by Dana Koster   "Coyote followed me..."
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi   "Here we are in the mishearing, in the fugue..."
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings   "The last laugh's after the last..."
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson   "In this small tent men pound..."
July 31, 2017:   "Navigation" by Adam Hughes   "feral stars..."
July 30, 2017:   "Ashmita" by Glenn Shea   "Older girls mostly and some young women..."
July 29, 2017:   "Performing Heart Repair Surgery at 2 A.M. While Asleep" by Hayden Saunier   "See, there's no blood...."
July 28, 2017:   "Schrödinger's Mouse" by Dana Curtis   "There's nothing so small that there isn't something smaller..."
July 27, 2017:   "Expedition" by William Huhn   "The friends I lost would not..."
July 26, 2017:   "A Pond of Alcohol" by Saddiq Dzukogi   "I am tired of what my love..."
July 25, 2017:   "The Grey Mousebirds" by Stephen Derwent Partington   "Sometimes, as you stand there-they are that much..."
July 24, 2017:   "Bare Metal Install" by John Estes   "Someone somewhere sits alone in a house..."
July 23, 2017:   "I Lied" by Richard Chess   "I lied. I didn't lie. Someone close, very close to me lied...."
July 22, 2017:   "I feel like an egg" by Brendan McBreen   "feeling its way toward light..."
July 21, 2017:   "The Last Love Poem" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   "I am obsolete as my ancestors, the Appalachian glass blowers..."
July 20, 2017:   "Rain, New Year's Eve" by Maggie Smith   "The rain is a broken piano..."
July 19, 2017:   "Dr. Harry Harlow's Primate Laboratory" by Sarah Rose Nordgren   "I was cut down like a fruit..."
July 18, 2017:   "Elegy for the Travel Agents" by Christopher Citro   "It might be easier to look at photographs of a lake..."
July 17, 2017:   "Jughead, Mid-Life" by Hilary S. Jacqmin   "In Tokyo, the long dream of Riverdale fades..."
July 15, 2017:   "The Rental Dog" by Rena Priest   "The train came and the man..."
July 14, 2017:   "Spooling Hum" by Lynne Potts   "You know night city's hum rounding Market..."
July 13, 2017:   "Silent Anniversary" by George David Clark   "my wife's dream-breathing in the dark..."
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" by Maggie Smith   "I'm no botanist. If you're the color of sulfur..."
July 11, 2017:   "Watching My Daughter Through the One Way Mirror of a Preschool Observation Room" by Robert Fanning   "Maggie's finishing a portrait..."
July 10, 2017:   "Qualifications for One to Be Climbed By a Vine" by Anna Lena Phillips Bell   "If not utter stillness, at least dedication..."
July 9, 2017:   "All-Night Teashop" by Yahya Frederickson   "Having tallied the day's cracks..."
July 8, 2017:   "Cosmopolitical Fugue" by Seth Michelson   "Syrian Immigrants smash on the rocks..."
July 7, 2017:   "Credo" by Crystal Spring Gibbins   "I believe in fate of the shoreline..."
July 6, 2017:   "I Had Pretty Plumage Once" by Leona Sevick   "The bees alighting on clover so near my toes..."
July 5, 2017:   "Confession" by E. J. Koh   "Under my showerhead, I drink..."
July 4, 2017:   "Moon Walk" by Terri Kirby Erickson   "Sunburned, bellies full of fried pompano, sweet..."
July 3, 2017:   "Cuttlebone" by Paul Muldoon   "Here's to the bitter leaf..."
July 2, 2017:   "Repository" by Tina Schumann   "Is this what the body becomes?..."
June 30, 2017:   "Wobble" by Richard Schiffman
July 1, 2017:   "Graveyard Shift" by Gary Glauber   "The vagrant tree sprite..."
June 30, 2017:   "Wobble" by Richard Schiffman   "Somewhere untold light years away, a star wobbles..."
June 29, 2017:   "Nocturne for a Botched Youth" by Paula Cisewski   "Nightmare where I wanted to return..."
June 28, 2017:   "Isrha'aq (Aunty's Prayer)" by Seema Yasmin   "my aunty is a psychic who taught me to pray..."
June 27, 2017:   "At the Diebenkorn Show Without You" by Alison Jarvis   "Is this California? It could be..."
June 26, 2017:   "The Common Wealth, Cash and Carry" by Nancy Chen Long   "Everyone                 sells out. Someone somewhere..."
June 25, 2017:   "The Fatherly Season" by Lindsey Royce   "From a distance, I watch my father raking..."
June 24, 2017:   "Serenade" by Lola Haskins   "Soon your small yellow leaves..."
June 23, 2017:   "What Happens in Vegas" by Christopher Kempf   "About sis almost invisible in the glitter. City..."
June 22, 2017:   "Lemon Icing" by Mark Cox   "About suffering they were never wrong...."
June 21, 2017:   "The Bulldog" by José Hernández Díaz   "I woke up transformed into a bulldog...."
June 20, 2017:   "Needle" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "A lost man might pour his jug..."
June 19, 2017:   "Aubade with a Multitude of Birds" by Nathan McClain   "Still dark and already..."
June 18, 2017:   "Sun-Day" by Madeline Tiger   "The sunlight spread today..."
June 17, 2017:   "Letters to Strangers" by Andrena Zawinski   "We write our letters to strangers, to you who will turn..."
June 16, 2017:   "Scrapers of the Sky" by Steve Castro   "I swallowed a blue whale until it turned green...."
June 15, 2017:   "Night Herons" by Miriam N. Kotzin   "You cannot be coaxed to be indifferent...."
June 14, 2017:   "My Henchmen" by Maria Hummel   "My henchmen are fat and ugly...."
June 13, 2017:   "Sonnet (23)" by Nikki Wallschlaeger   "I think about deer all the time. We both do..."
June 12, 2017:   "Wireless Doorbell" by Jehanne Dubrow   "What makes it chime when no one's waiting there?..."
June 11, 2017:   "Attitudes of Crows" by Marsha Truman Cooper   "Out in a storm to shoot..."
June 10, 2017:   "How Long This Day of Mine" by Jawdat Fakhreddine   "Is it not shameful..."
June 9, 2017:   "Sermon of the Dreadnaught" by Gary Copeland Lilley   "The guitar: I take communion..."
June 8, 2017:   "[They are blowing the leaves from the grass at Princeton]" by Christian Barter   "They are blowing the leaves from the grass at Princeton..."
June 5, 2017:   "Pavement 5" by Rustin Larson   "The pallbearer..."
June 4, 2017:   "[Underneath each seat was a small box...]" by Allison Benis White   "Underneath each seat was a small box..."
June 3, 2017:   "Water and Boy" by Michael Mark   "Now I know..."
June 2, 2017:   "Where the Sugar Dollars" by Andrea Cohen   "Where the sugar dollars..."
June 1, 2017:   "Witch" by Diann Blakely   "Moonlight is infinitely..."
May 31, 2017:   "The Word" by Aaron Krol   "A branch fell on the chicken shed..."
May 30, 2017:   "Ventriloquist" by Bruce Bond   "It started with a doll, a woman..."
May 29, 2017:   "Blood-Heart Moon" by Tony Reevy   "So hard to..."
May 28, 2017:   "I Cannot Love You as You Want to be Loved" by Mary Dorcey   "I cannot love you..."
May 27, 2017:   "Barbed Wire and Bedclothes" by Alice Pettway   "I will rip these sheets off you like a bandage..."
May 26, 2017:   "Light R48 on the Storrow Drive Underpass" by Wendy Drexler   "Praise the beam of that light that slices..."
May 25, 2017:   "Sea Specters" by Suzanne Manizza Roszak   "From the highest point of the top deck..."
May 24, 2017:   "Blank Shot" by Josh Kalscheur   "I should not find my form..."
May 23, 2017:   "Falling but Frozen" by David Hernandez   "By accident, mid-aisle, my heel..."
May 22, 2017:   "The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes" by Catherine Pierce   "And then we woke up. And our uncles..."
May 21, 2017:   "Before Group Meditation" by Chloe Honum   "I recall splendor...."
May 20, 2017:   "Drought" by Richard Hague   "When we have run our passion's heat..."
May 19, 2017:   "Moment Where I Keep What I'd Wanted to Give" by Sara Lupita Olivares   "once they appear..."
May 18, 2017:   "Where Am I?" by Craig Morgan Teicher   "How far from what..."
May 17, 2017:   "Behind the Door that Will Not Lock" by Julie Brooks Barbour   "You fill an abandoned house with pine trees...."
May 16, 2017:   "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" by Chen Chen   "Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango...."
May 15, 2017:   "The Gospel of Leaving" by Al Maginnes   "Before we knew the world, we wanted to know the limits..."
May 14, 2017:   "The Dishwasher" by Nancy Scott   "On their first date, he gave her..."
May 13, 2017:   "Requiem" by Nadine Sabra Meyer   "At the end of the hall, where my mother's room glows like an incubator..."
May 12, 2017:   "Open House" by Mark Irwin   "The realtor is whistling through the spacious rooms...."
May 11, 2017:   "Pennies from Heaven" by John Blair   "There it is again..."
May 10, 2017:   "After My Brother Dies, A Dream" by Mary Cisper   "I confess, my caregivers..."
May 9, 2017:   "Sanitarium Bell" by Sara Jane Stoner   "I confess, my caregivers..."
May 8, 2017:   "Annunciation" by Courtney Kampa   "Before he began to motion..."
May 7, 2017:   "Marilyn Monroe Imagines Her Life as Menu Items at Schrafft's" by Susan J. Erickson   "I was an abandoned passenger, my father..."
May 6, 2017:   "A Species of Bramble or Thorn" by Roberta P. Feins   "In the Temple parking lot..."
May 5, 2017:   "Homage, Orby Head" by Susan Edwards Richmond   "When I can go no farther, and the maps are all..."
May 4, 2017:   "I never met Donald Trump but I sure have been grabbed by the you-know-what" by Khadijah Queen   "& I really don't even want his name in my book..."
May 3, 2017:   "Housewife" by Jo Pitkin   "On the smooth glass of oiled wood..."
May 2, 2017:   "The Quantum Mechanics of Everyday Life" by Philip Fried   "Schrödinger's cat hid out on the Lower East Side..."
May 1, 2017:   "The State Para-Military Force Speaks" by Raena Shirali   "We stood by quietly as the mosque fell. Or was pulled...."
April 30, 2017:   "Scene with Lake and Bees" by Gillian Wegener   "Two men stand knee-deep in lake water..."
April 29, 2017:   "The First Owner of This Book Says Its Story" by Lex Runciman   "Smaller than an opened hand this little book..."
April 28, 2017:   "American Herring Gull" by Kim Roberts   "Beneath a lazy whiptail of cloud..."
April 27, 2017:   "Spring Helps" by Benjamin S. Grossberg   "Spring helps. The theme of back to life..."
April 26, 2017:   "The Body Compass" by Erin Rodoni   "True north is the nook behind your knee..."
April 25, 2017:   "[Sisyphus in love]" by Leslie Harrison   "At first it was the stone the rough stubble skin of it the call..."
April 24, 2017:   "The revolution starts at home" by Becca Klaver   "The revolution will be ready in, like, half an hour..."
April 23, 2017:   "Opposite Freedom Fields Park, 1961" by Marilyn Longstaff   "My mother, in a fit of whimsy, locked us out..."
April 22, 2017:   "Aubade" by Christopher Locke   "It was the last good thing we heard: a bus..."
April 21, 2017:   "Holy Wars for Us" by Ned Balbo   "Frost's world is gone, if it was ever here...."
April 20, 2017:   "Silk Poem II" by Joan Colby   "Silkworms depend on mulberry leaves..."
April 19, 2017:   "Orchids" by Diane Lockward   "Such flowers must be used with discretion...."
April 18, 2017:   "Washington, DC" by Mira Rosenthal   "When the law terrifies us..."
April 17, 2017:   "I Am Not Built for Dead" by Natalie Shapero   "bodies—my people in their tsarist shanties..."
April 16, 2017:   "Tell the Truth But Leave Immediately After" by Timothy Daniel Welch   Like the bear constellation who-after eating..."
April 15, 2017:   "Intersection" by Michael Shewmaker   "A boat-tailed grackle counts the passing cars..."
April 14, 2017:   "Incurable Cloud" by Adam Giannelli   "Don't know why, but the dog is barking...."
April 13, 2017:   "For every obvious thing, there's a three-dimensional chess set of subtextual things" by Matt Mauch   "that a songbird, arrived from summering north of here..."
April 12, 2017:   "Black Holes" by Christopher Salerno   "No stars now..."
April 11, 2017:   "Way, On This Plane All Face The Same" by Mark Yakich   "And yet we shouldn't just sit..."
April 10, 2017:   "Conscientious Objectors" by Micheline Maylor   "She's learning to lie, in this car, right now, and to swear, too..."
April 9, 2017:   "Sarah, Unbroken" by Clint McCown   "My wife—Dawn—..."
April 8, 2017:   "Saudades" by Tomás Q. Morín   "When that word, one part swine..."
April 7, 2017:   "Oak" by Adam Wyeth   "The old oak is our father..."
April 6, 2017:   "Los Angeles, NY" by Alex Dimitrov   "What he can't remember is why soon they'll stop meeting..."
April 5, 2017:   "Epithalamion" by Hannah Fries   "The elm weaves the field's late light, this hill..."
April 4, 2017:   "Parking Lot, Pre-Dawn" by Rebecca Aronson   "The only light this hour..."
April 3, 2017:   "Why We Sleep" by Carolyn Miller   "Because almost all the stew of spring..."
April 1, 2017:   "The One Moment When Dandelions Don't Die" by Rob Cook   "What protects the cellular..."
March 31, 2017:   "Toward Repose" by Jane O. Wayne   "Liquid, solid...."
March 30, 2017:   "In the Patio IV (Black Door)" by Jessica Jacobs   "Carried inside me..."
March 29, 2017:   "Oceanic" by Grace Bauer   "What is rescue?..."
March 28, 2017:   "Love Poem" by Maggie Smith   "What can I give you? You have plenty..."
March 27, 2017:   "Ojo Caliente: Metamorphoses" by Tina Carlson   "The summer was shattering...."
March 26, 2017:   "Case Study #20: Akinetic Mutism" by Jane Lewty   "here is more space than..."
March 25, 2017:   "Calisthenics" by Brandon Rushton   "All things are an effort to prolong the inevitable...."
March 24, 2017:   "Bad Woman, lineal question variation" by Sheila McMullin   "When I sleep you are in the scene...."
March 23, 2017:   "Seascape with Evacuating" by Bethany Schultz Hurst   "all of the ocean creatures..."
March 22, 2017:   "Archival Footage of a Necessary Outburst" by Anne Cecelia Holmes   "It's hard to know what lives..."
March 21, 2017:   "Saying Goodbye to a Friend" by Danielle Hanson   "Not needing a fire but starting one..."
March 20, 2017:   "20 March" by Dave Bonta   "the outermost spruce trees..."
March 19, 2017:   "'V' from Manhattan Island" by Lana Hechtman Ayers   "To investigate the universe, converse with Aristotle..."
March 18, 2017:   "Shimmer Here Shimmer" by Lisa Olstein   "Remember the feel of the latch..."
March 17, 2017:   "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel   "The ledge invites and frightens, loose gravel..."
March 16, 2017:   "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden   "The grass doesn't love me though I nursed it, fussed over it in..."
March 15, 2017:   "Animal Time" by Carol V. Davis   "I do better in animal time..."
March 14, 2017:   "August in South Georgia" by Sandra Simonds   "Why do I drink so much gin? Has something to do..."
March 13, 2017:   "America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope" by Dean Rader   "America, I do not call your name without hope..."
March 12, 2017:   "Amie" by Gillian Cummings   "Clotilde found me in the hayloft, sticking straws under my nails...."
March 11, 2017:   "Sonnet to Lucy" by Claudia Cortese   "Your face, vein-lit, bone-lit, lit by fear..."
March 10, 2017:   "There Are Things We Are Not Meant to See" by Gerald Fleming   "Twelve of them stood lit in white, the rest in pale green, as if for a..."
March 9, 2017:   "For Ruby" by Michelle Reed   "Somewhere in Michigan..."
March 8, 2017:   "The Sapient" by L.S. Klatt   "When diagnosing diseases of the..."
March 7, 2017:   "Soul Out of a Magician's Hat" by Carolina Ebeid   "My gratitude for your sketch of the hand..."
March 6, 2017:   "Elegy for Sleep" by Chrys Tobey   "You are the salty skin..."
March 5, 2017:   "This Trouble of Curls" by Jennifer Jackson Berry   "A woman my age with this trouble..."
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman   "I hear the clatter of hands inside..."
March 3, 2017:   "For the Poet Who Told Me Rats Aren't Noble Enough Creatures for a Poem" by Elizabeth Acevedo   "Because you are not the admired nightingale...."
March 2, 2017:   "Before Results" by Sophie Klahr   "What could we do with our sickness..."
March 1, 2017:   "Wind Trumps the World" by Garret Keizer   "Wind that takes the dead..."
February 28, 2017:   "The Years" by Howard Altmann   "Moving, forever moving..."
February 27, 2017:   "Late Bloom" by Jenny Johnson   "The name of the spotted apple..."
February 26, 2017:   "After Life" by Ruth Valentine   "First the coffin burns..."
February 25, 2017:   "Horse Girl" by Laura Romeyn   "From your stencil comes our collective...."
February 24, 2017:   "Souvenir" by Jane Satterfield   "Friendly fire, parasites &..."
February 23, 2017:   "Trans Memoir 8" by Sara June Woods   "Everything was lava for a while, really...."
February 22, 2017:   "Look Up" by Raymond McDaniel   "For a model of a gravity well, picture an actual well...."
February 21, 2017:   "After the Open House" by Marilyn Nelson   "I saw again, at last night's open house..."
February 20, 2017:   "On the Moon" by Margaret Gibson   "When she said children's moon, I gasped..."
February 19, 2017:   "Small Hungers" by Pete Mullineaux   "Your bare foot beneath the table brushes mine..."
February 18, 2017:   "Midnight, and people I love are dying" by Robin Chapman   "and I can't sleep so I'm up thinking..."
February 16, 2017:   "The Blackboard" by Mark Jarman   "The teacher faces me to write in chalk...."
February 15, 2017:   "My Heart" by Barbara Crooker   "I want a new heart..."
February 14, 2017:   "While the Backwoods Burned" by Andrea Jurjevic   "Stories? I prefer what fits in two-or-three words, like not being scared...."
February 13, 2017:   "We, As Other People" by Kelli Allen   "We've been very happy in the small open area..."
February 12, 2017:   "The Guitar" by Austin Allen   "The guitar / begins to cry again...."
February 11, 2017:   "Orchard" by Susan Millar DuMars   "I torched our orchard last night...."
February 10, 2017:   "As You Label It. So It Appears to You" by James Crews   "If I say I see a heron lifting off..."
February 9, 2017:   "Ocean in View" by Philip Pardi   "I've come to the sea as I come..."
February 8, 2017:   "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski   "I could stare down    a field..."
February 7, 2017:   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame" by David O'Connell   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame..."
February 6, 2017:   "Exposure with Owls" by Joni Wallace   "Soft piping of an owl, two owlets, in the pine...."
February 5, 2017:   "Terra Incognita" by Terence Tiller   "Old sailors making landfall (but the tide..."
February 4, 2017:   "Cernunos" by Tim Dooley   "Some came in trucks, bedded down as ballast..."
February 3, 2017:   "Wish" by Kerrie O' Brien   "I want to have the blessing..."
February 2, 2017:   "Two Widows" by Amie Whittemore   "We installed another widow..."
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell   "Once during a lightning storm at sea..."
January 31, 2017:   "hazuzeM" by Landon Godfrey   "A woman hangs a cage in a doorway. No bird...."
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak   "The history of running is mostly away..."
January 29, 2017:   "Paradise" by Emilie Buchwald   "We were waiting for a train in the echoing underground...."
January 28, 2017:   "The Great Molasses Flood" by Ben Berman   "Over two million gallons of molasses..."
January 27, 2017:   "Our Next Home" by Margaret Hasse   "I keep dreaming of houses. Last night..."
January 26, 2017:   "Sunday Night Shift" by Jennifer Givhan   "There's something about the dark..."
January 25, 2017:   "Each Day The Sun Makes Us" by Greg Watson   "Each day the sun makes us believe..."
January 24, 2017:   "Breath" by Peter Makuck   "Their echoes eddy..."
January 23, 2017:   "Evolution" by Jessica de Koninck   "all morning I practiced not thinking..."
January 22, 2017:   "Balance, January" by Patricia Clark   "It's stranger than you can account for..."
January 21, 2017:   "Urban Celestial" by Jeffrey Greene   "Leave this body out all night..."
January 20, 2017:   "Who leaves me rootless" by Mary Meriam   "You! all rich now? man at your cozy table..."
January 18, 2017:   "Two Stanza Republic" by Lauren Hilger   "A baby calls out from each room...."
January 17, 2017:   "Zero" by Melissa Stein   "Papercut contracts the whole world..."
January 16, 2017:   "Poem for a Rabbit" by Gretchen Marquette   "Beside my car this morning, heart..."
January 15, 2017:   "Broken" by Bonnie Bolling   "I go to the market..."
January 14, 2017:   "Emily and the Bobcat" by Stephanie Emily Dickinson   "1897. I trailed my brother Josef past the already darkening ditch. He..."
January 13, 2017:   "Distant Trees" by Stephen Page   "'I don't understand why distance..."
January 12, 2017:   "Grief" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan   "I have been grieving for a long time now...."
January 11, 2017:   "Don't Hang Up" by Bill Brown   "Only my wife has my cell number...."
January 10, 2017:   "The Watching Tree" by Maurice Manning   "So, I went out into the blue..."
January 9, 2017:   "Raise" by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb   "I need a safe house everywhere I go...."
January 8, 2017:   "Predelictions" by Claire Bateman   "The Baron is interested in dirigibles but not balloons..."
January 7, 2017:   "What Runs in the Family" by Murray Reiss   "My mother's deaf-mute brother died..."
January 6, 2017:   "Poem about Pittsburgh Houses" by David Blair   "My parents' house took a beating..."
January 5, 2017:   from "A Hole of Bones & Thread" by Chuck Carlise   "Fill the body..."
January 4, 2017 (A 2016 Favorite):   "The Past" by Kim Bridgford   "The past is what you're looking at..."
January 3, 2017 (A 2016 Favorite):   "Suicide Hotline Hold Music" by Jessy Randall   "We play cheerful music on the suicide hotline..."
January 2, 2017 (A 2016 Favorite):   "Of Thee I Sing" by Ocean Vuong   "We're riding in the back of the black..."
January 1, 2017 (A 2016 Favorite):   "Harbingers" by Gregory Djanikian   "Always the small before the large..."December 31, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "The Flying Phalangers" by Anaïs Duplan   "You and I are filthy but it is..."
December 30, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "Pastoral" by Rose McLarney   "Cattle are a black weight on the light sway of land that was once..."
December 29, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "A Box of Records" by James Haug   "Someone placed a box of records by the curb..."
December 28, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "I, hermit" by Bob Hicok   "People scare me — most people and most..."
December 27, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague   "If you could start..."
December 26, 2016 (A 2016 Favorite):   "How It Is With Us, And How It Is With Them" by Mary Oliver   "We become religious..."
December 25, 2016:   "Augustine Chanting" by Daniel Corrie   "The wholeness stands. Its outlines cloud and alter...."
December 24, 2016:   "Praise Poem" by Caits Meissner   "The circle's purpose is to see each other..."
December 23, 2016:   "Big Psalm" by Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.   "An other the soul I imagined an organ..."
December 22, 2016:   "EMT Hopes Pregnant Plumber Doesn't Give Birth" by Ron Riekki   "She's too skinny to have a baby in her..."
December 21, 2016:   "Aubade" by Nola Garrett   "First light. The murmur of thunder wakes me...."
December 20, 2016:   "Ursa Major" by Lisa Allen Ortiz   "The bears again..."
December 19, 2016:   "Yam Weevil" by Amy Wright   "Infinitely susceptible..."
December 18, 2016:   "A Mouth" by Richard Lyons   "A sack of marbles, worthless coins, say what you will...."
December 17, 2016:   "The Past" by Kim Bridgford   "The past is what you're looking at..."
December 16, 2016:   "When" by Ed Skoog   "when you go..."
December 15, 2016:   "Ephebe" by Claire Millikin   "My father once had a student whom he loved..."
December 14, 2016:   from "The Day Winter Gives Way" by Matthew Thorburn   "Now it's December..."
December 13, 2016:   "As Thomas, Doubting" by JK Daniels   "I was not his twin. I tried to listen: be tenantless..."
December 12, 2016:   "Folio" by Kimberly Johnson   "The king's in rags, the robe of his state unseamed..."
December 11, 2016:   "The President of People Fooling Themselves" by Jen Karetnick   "Forcing a bow tie on a bankrupt foundation..."
December 10, 2016:   "What to Leave Behind" by Renee Emerson   "What drove you there in the first place. That garden that wouldn't grow, roots..."
December 9, 2016:   "From Grace" by Leonard Gontarek   "I may force the soul into nakedness...."
December 8, 2016:   "Second Servant, King Lear, Act III, Scene VII" by Zana Previti   "I have cultivated enemies to practice..."
December 7, 2016:   "Archive" by Joseph Campana   "Inside every prince there is..."
December 5, 2016:   "Figure of the Buck" by Julie Funderburk   "Think of a buck..."
December 4, 2016:   "Celeriac" by Stephen Massimilla   "Artery-twisted..."
December 3, 2016:   "Transport" by Kim Garcia   "Between twilight and twilight the muddle-sleep of fear..."
December 2, 2016:   "Equinox" by Carmen R. Gillespie   "I can never remember which is which..."
December 1, 2016:   "Abandoned Places" by Lindsay Tigue   "I move to Georgia..."
November 30, 2016:   "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton   "His face, a flag, fades..."
November 29, 2016:   "Redress" by Wendy Videlock   "It is good practice to call..."
November 28, 2016:   "[It's scary: when I met myself]" by Kallie Falandays   "It's scary: when I met myself..."
November 27, 2016:   "One Brother Suffers" by Jennifer Reeser   "One Brother Suffers, and another brother..."
November 26, 2016:   "Leaving by Train" by Ashley-Elizabeth Best   "Whiskered light throbs inside the station...."
November 25, 2016:   "My Father Owned the Sam Kee Laundry in LA" by Jasmine An   "I graduated from high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2011...."
November 24, 2016:   "Thank You" by Susan Firer   "Thank you, street signs, for pointing me toward the lake...."
November 23, 2016:   "Inherited Music" by Michael Schmeltzer   "Because grey clouds gorge on themselves..."
November 22, 2016:   "Prufrock's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Red Wheelbarrow..." by A.M. Juster   "Let us go then, you and I..."
November 21, 2016:   "Quelle Night" by Sarah V. Schweig   "She is, tonight, in spite of...."
November 20, 2016:   "Thanksgiving on the Line" by James Galvin   "The Weatherman said, 'Sunny statewide.'..."
November 19, 2016:   "Philip Larkin's Koan" by Paisley Rekdal   "In the perfect universe of math it's said..."
November 18, 2016:   "A Debris Field of Apocalypticians—A Murder of Crows" by Dana Levin   "The fact of suffering is not a question of justice...."
November 17, 2016:   "A Marxist interpretation of rivers" by Bob Hicok   "I like money. I mean I like..."
November 16, 2016:   "Ian's House" by James Haug   "The bouncer at Ian's house has it pretty easy. The people who..."
November 15, 2016:   "Voices Over Water" by W. S. Merwin   "There are spirits that come back to us..."
November 14, 2016:   "And Life Goes On As It Has Always Gone On" by Diane Lockward   "Snow and then more of it and just when spring..."
November 13, 2016:   "Betty Parris Hears Only No" by Ginny Lowe Connors   "No running no dancing no wasting of time..."
November 12, 2016:   "I Forgot the Language of Scars" by Eileen R. Tabios   "I forgot releasing breath to describe milk transformed by your scent...."
November 11, 2016:   "Verge" by Christine Stewart-Nuñez   "Where I sit, a pile of storm-struck..."
November 9, 2016:   "Gifts" by Michael Gessner   "Nature overcompensates..."
November 8, 2016:   "Rivulets and Tributaries" by Gary Glauber   "The unnamed waterways of bygone youth..."
November 7, 2016:   "Firsts Born" by Alison D. Moncrief Bromage   "Families are trundling out of me like monsters...."
November 6, 2016:   "The Last Thing I Want To Do" by Elizabeth J. Colen   "I did that thing where I wouldn't put anything in my mouth for the longest time...."
November 5, 2016:   "How to Talk to Your Dead Mother" by Nicole Rollender   "At first, it's like old times, old bones: She puts..."
November 4, 2016:   "Real Night" by Adam Scheffler   "I miss it - no streetlamps, where..."
November 3, 2016:   "Orpheus: the Fugitive Kind" by Marjorie Maddox   "Birds the color of sky flap their notes of freedom..."
November 2, 2016:   "The Captured Angel Comments on Death" by Neil Carpathios   "It's a great invention...."
November 1, 2016:   "Old Witch" by Natalie Safir   "The three- year-old looks up at me with puzzlement..."
October 31, 2016:   "Halloween" by Brian Fanelli   "In high school, we crammed into Justin's Chevy..."
October 30, 2016:   "Seaweed" by Laverne Frith   "Surely the soundings of the sea..."
October 29, 2016:   "Amazon-Persephone After" by Alison Stone   "True, the first time I went willingly. What girl..."
October 28, 2016:   "Bale" by Glenis Redmond   "When you gotta go. You leave. Take fear and every gift God gave you...."
October 27, 2016:   "Finding Fox Red, 2014" by Barbara Presnell   "You can't get there by car..."
October 26, 2016:   "Portrait of the Self as Skunk Cabbage" by James Davis May   "Maybe it's like those hard..."
October 25, 2016:   "Household Fires" by Jenny Drai   "First we burn the formal dresses, then a..."
October 24, 2016:   "The Fortune Teller Knows She'll Never Marry" by Josephine Yu   "Because she wakes one morning with hands..."
October 23, 2016:   "For Cassandra" by Joe Weil   "Not having been heard..."
October 22, 2016:   "Harvest" by Thomas Mitchell   "The night sky opens its starry picture book: an archer..."
October 21, 2016:   "Passing" by Cynthia Manick   ": to bind the center of a peach pit heart..."
October 20, 2016:   "house made of ghosts and small animals" by Kristy Bowen   "For every love song, there is a broken dove skeleton..."
October 19, 2016:   "Chasing the Bear From the Birdfeeder" by Tim Mayo   "oo! works the first time. A little less the second...."
October 18, 2016:   "The Gift" by Jennifer Givhan   "He's building me a tiny birdcage..."
October 17, 2016:   "self-portrait, with untruth" by Emily O'Neill   "playing the liar I am always..."
October 16, 2016:   "A Local Joan of Arc," by Ellen McGrath Smith   "stunned by sinlessness,..."
October 15, 2016:   "The Surveyor" by Gary Hawkins   "Who says the eye loves level..."
October 14, 2016:   "Multitudes" by Allison Joseph   "I'm a big city girl and a small town woman..."
October 13, 2016:   "Interview" by M.J. Iuppa   "I've been thinking of all the words..."
October 12, 2016:   "Rats" by Sarah Blake   "It's difficult to tell..."
October 11, 2016:   "Dirty Realism" by Hannah Brooks-Motl   "In my pragmatism I was bpj682ed not with want; I was produced..."
October 10, 2016:   "Starlings" by Karen Leona Anderson   "The most beautiful clothes: iridescent black..."
October 9, 2016:   "News from the Frontal Lobe (& hold that thought, hard)" by Stephen Bett   "Despite what the paranoids, wackos..."
October 8, 2016:   "Dream Circuit" by Lynne Knight   "There was a man whose dreams I could have listened to..."
October 7, 2016:   "After a Century of Fire-Suppression Policy" by Scot Siegel   "Despite the flames that crowned the pines and charred..."
October 6, 2016:   "The Death of Narcissus" by Ken Craft   "October, and the glen..."
October 5, 2016:   "Broken Plate" by Patrick Moran   "Freed from its servitude..."
October 4, 2016:   "Hydra" by Claire Askew   "Everywhere you look is light..."
October 3, 2016:   "Peonies Framed by Sappho" by Christine Stewart-Nuñez   "Come, then, loose me from cruelties...."
October 1, 2016:   "What It's Like to Be a Girl." by Cati Porter   "Cotton balls and cotton swabs and soft cotton underwear and pin curls..."
September 30, 2016:   "Red Moon" by Corinna Rosendahl   "Because of what I've done..."
September 29, 2016:   "To Swallow These Catastrophes" by Nick Narbutas   "The sea dies like an elephant...."
September 28, 2016:   "Market Research Interviewer" by Rob Cook   "That summer I had to push my voice into the phone..."
September 27, 2016:   "The Museum of the Occupation" by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher   "So, of course, you have to go in...."
September 26, 2016:   "Vane" by Dan Albergotti   "The rusted rooster spins alone these days..."
September 25, 2016:   "Mercy: Rivet Girl Listen To—" by Laura McCullough   "Once, it was other music like a train..."
September 24, 2016:   "Sophrosyne" by Donelle Dreese   "You break bread into small pieces...."
September 23, 2016:   "Prisoners' Parable of the Flood" by Susannah Nevison   "When the flood comes, we understand it..."
September 22, 2016:   "Miss Marple Solves the Mysteries of the World" by Alexandra van de Kamp   "You never know what awaits you..."
September 21, 2016:   "All About Flash" by Rachael Katz   "I'm all about flash, the way..."
September 20, 2016:   "For the Fisherwoman" by Tracy May Fuad   "A girl who curls up in her seat is a hook..."
September 19, 2016:   "Other Days" by Jordan Rice   "Among envelopes marked second chance and final..."
September 18, 2016:   "The Czar" by Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson   "has a list of regrets. It's short, and ghost-written...."
September 17, 2016:   "Cuttlefish" by Michael Prior   "I meant to acknowledge what you hadn't yet confessed...."
September 16, 2016:   "Today the Gypsies Are Burning" by John Guzlowski   "Their dying is something fierce..."
September 15, 2016:   "* the gossip" by Annie Guthrie   "I don't always want what we have, she is saying...."
September 14, 2016:   "The Minor Poet Gives the Two-Poem Warning" by Lois Marie Harrod   "Two more poems, the poet says..."
September 13, 2016:   "Equinox" by William Reichard   "The stretch of the shadows in the evening..."
September 12, 2016:   "Thieves" by Todd Davis   "We filch..."
September 11, 2016:   "8 Oars of Sleep" by R. Nemo Hill   "One of cedar..."
September 10, 2016:   "Blue-footed Boobies" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "The doofy guy at the bar..."
September 9, 2016:   "Darkening, Brightening" by Carl Phillips   "Listening's not enough, you've gotta watch them, that way they feel..."
September 8, 2016:   "Our Fathers" by Kathleen Flenniken   "owned the atomic age. They were young and handsome..."
September 7, 2016:   "I Close My Eyes When I Listen to Poetry" by Amy MacLennan   "People notice. But I still close my eyes..."
September 6, 2016:   "Late Aubade" by James Richardson   "So what do you think, Life, it seemed pretty good to me..."
September 4, 2016:   "Forgetting Dante in Third Period" by Al Ortolani   "I was reading canto thirty-four to my senior English class...."
September 3, 2016:   "Caveat" by David Radavich   "Be careful what..."
September 2, 2016:   "Charolais" by John Kinsella   "Tracy first saw this 'breed'..."
September 1, 2016:   "The Way You Went" by Mark Jarman   "After the long leavetaking..."
August 31, 2016:   "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington   "When I had died and stood nowhere..."
August 30, 2016:   "Stripped" by Mark Maire   "Through tepid air, neither summer nor fall..."
August 29, 2016:   "Gift-Distant, Scratched" by Marianne Boruch   "Maybe a pool filled with roses someone..."
August 28, 2016:   "Once and Future LeBron" by Janice A. Lowe   "Mom interviewed Muhammad Ali..."
August 27, 2016:   "Minuendus" by Monique Ferrell   "and so it is that a man understands himself..."
August 26, 2016:   "To the Student Who Asked Why He Earned a 'C' on an Essay about Love" by Clint Margrave   "Because love has its own grammar..."
August 25, 2016:   "'A Culture'" by James Davis May   "That's what the voiceover calls the family of orcas..."
August 24, 2016:   "The Swim to Antarctica" by Leslie Contreras Schwartz   "Before the swim, in twenty-two degree waters..."
August 23, 2016:   "Complaint" by Josh Bell   "The best fever had a brick for genitals..."
August 22, 2016:   "Obscurity and Snow" by C.D. Wright   "Everything would be closed. He got up late...."
August 21, 2016:   "When a Boy Kisses Your Son" by Jonterri Gadson   "Remember you used to kiss girls..."
August 20, 2016:   "Elegy for a Year" by Jay Deshpande   "I'm going to get drunk tonight, in my home, by the side..."
August 18, 2016:   "The Quest" by Rebecca Foust   "The quest was a metaphor, of course..."
August 17, 2016:   "the mutt as mudbone" by Aziza Barnes   "They done played me out. Done played me..."
August 16, 2016:   "The Possibility of Refusing All Else" by Elizabeth Onusko   "A mob of unrepentant aesthetes..."
August 15, 2016:   "To You Your Name" by Liz Waldner   "It makes me feel better to talk right...."
August 14, 2016:   "Dark Clocks" by Kristine Ong Muslim   "This loneliness is obviously misplaced..."
August 13, 2016:   "Funeral for a Sioux Elder" by Tiffany Midge   "Grandma Charity said everyone wear white..."
August 12, 2016:   "The Woman Who Can't Forget: 25th High School Reunion" by Carrie Shipers   "Women hug and squeal. Men put arms..."
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "I understand. I do. I used to lie back..."
August 10, 2016:   "You Get to Missing" by Cady Vishniac   "In Baltimore for example, the black..."
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho   "We have three choices..."
August 8, 2016:   "Vivisecting" by Philip Schaefer & Jeff Whitney   "The first out is the heart, small..."
August 7, 2016:   "Audacity and Fish Food" by Ellen Foos   "I feed my fish an extra pinch..."
August 6, 2016:   "What My Autopsy Will Reveal" by Jen Karetnick   "The glass houses of organs were bottles..."
August 5, 2016:   "In Dreams I Ride a Bus" by Arlene Weiner   "Because a bus is a house of many windows..."
August 4, 2016:   "Elevator" by Philip Dacey   "The elevator's out of service, shut..."
August 3, 2016:   "This Is the Neighbor Kid Who Killed the Cat" by Cody Walker   "This is the neighbor kid who killed the cat...."
August 2, 2016:   "The Flying Phalangers" by Anaïs Duplan   "You and I are filthy but it is..."
August 1, 2016:   "Love poem" by Bob Hicok   "The woman I love..."
July 31, 2016:   "If The Dead Bird In The Gutter Rises Up" by Kate Angus   "Tell me that this morning's not collusive..."
July 30, 2016:   "Integrating the Shadow" by Melissa Studdard   "I was a bird in the hand of God...."
July 29, 2016:   "The Dog House" by Judith Skillman   "In here again, head rubbing the ceiling..."
July 28, 2016:   "Why Barbara Isn't Here" by Andrea Hollander   "Because the casseroles stopped coming..."
July 27, 2016:   "Apophatic" by Dan Beachy-Quick   "Nothing changes nothing..."
July 26, 2016:   "Long-billed Curlew (Numenius longirostris)" by Eleanor Stanford   "Would it help to know that God..."
July 25, 2016:   "Piecework" by Arne Weingart   "It's a way of dealing with..."
July 24, 2016:   "Advice to the Dog Sitter" by Connie Post   "Remember the house key..."
July 23, 2016:   "Nocturne (Tremors of the Earth)" by Gregory Kimbrell   "Dear shadow, electric lights burn once more..."
July 22, 2016:   "Ghost Encounter" by Annah Browning   "From the perspective of a ghost..."
July 21, 2016:   "Marriage" by Maya Pindyck   "I married a piano..."
July 20, 2016:   "Daisies vs. Bees" by Lucia Perillo   "Who could not love the Shasta daisies, lining the walk..."
July 19, 2016:   "'Do you think one should always follow one's heart?'" by Laura McKee   "I was looking for a word and I was close..."
July 18, 2016:   "Poltergeists" by George David Clark   "They move my keys..."
July 17, 2016:   "(Cove)" by Daniel Tobin   "Sometimes it's no different than the sound of the surf..."
July 16, 2016:   "White Ink" by Bernadette Cremin   "He was the reason for cravats..."
July 15, 2016:   "Pastoral" by Betty Adcock   "Empty hayrick, nineteenth-century barn..."
July 14, 2016:   "Myotis Lucifugus" by Rajiv Mohabir   "Fear gallops from your open mouth..."
July 13, 2016:   "Here at the OFH" by Kathryn Starbuck   "I live in a place..."
July 12, 2016:   "Pastoral" by Rose McLarney   "Cattle are a black weight on the light sway of land that was once...."
July 11, 2016:   "Bewilder" by Katrina Roberts   "I'm the screen door always smacking open...."
July 10, 2016:   "Communion" by Sally Stewart Mohney   "Salvation can finally come..."
July 9, 2016:   "Sea Currency" by Nicholas McLachlan   "They say he's pouring money into the island...."
July 8, 2016:   "Translation" by Jeffrey Morgan   "If this town had a mascot, it would be the man..."
July 7, 2016:   "The Frida Kahlo Tree: A Fable" by Catherine Bowman   "She never felt so human..."
July 6, 2016:   "Tingo (For Divorce)" by Jennifer Givhan   "Your mother slaps a frenzy of honey on her plain soft bread..."
July 5, 2016:   "Dark Forecast" by W. Nick Hill   "Weather in the night..."
July 4, 2016:   "Scrap Gold" by Zach Savich   "Then all was vineyard, all was grape..."
July 1, 2016:   "Suicide Hotline Hold Music" by Jessy Randall   "We play cheerful music on the suicide hotline..."
June 29, 2016:   "The Back Roads" by Jennifer Givhan   "He is never ready when you pull up honking..."
June 28, 2016:   "Amateur Hour (What Do Sad Songs Remind You Of?)" by Charlie Clark   "The clouds here are beautiful in the manner of my wife's hands...."
June 27, 2016:   "Framingham" by Darin Ciccotelli   "Farms reticent enough..."
June 26, 2016:   "The Prison Tourist" by Jessica L. Walsh   "Where the prisoner burned..."
June 25, 2016:   "Watershed" by Angie Macri   "White violets, the food..."
June 24, 2016:   "The New Trees" by Rosalie Moffett   "The new trees rise up and up, fingering out, one cell..."
June 23, 2016:   "Self as Suscipe" by Jane Huffman   "In Catholic School, I drew Jesus on a dare...."
June 22, 2016:   "Aphrodite in Los Angeles" by Michelle Bitting   "Her hair was crazy with wind..."
June 21, 2016:   "The Invisible Hand" by Darin Ciccotelli   "When you visit the..."
June 20, 2016:   "What Returns" by Cameron Awkward-Rich   "So now winter is a place I visit..."
June 19, 2016:   "Spindle, Lathe" by Renée Ashley   "Thirst rose in her from a sitting position...."
June 18, 2016:   "The Three Dancers, 1925" by Choman Hardi   "The flawless woman stands on one foot..."
June 17, 2016:   "My Wife's Back" by Sydney Lea   "All naked but for a strap, it traps my gaze..."
June 16, 2016:   "In The Passing Lane" by Pauline Uchmanowicz   "The you inside of me today seems tangible...."
June 15, 2016:   "Black Ants" by Fay Dillof   "Unable to sleep..."
June 14, 2016:   "Autumn Takes Inventory" by Gary McDowell   "I have an extra pair of goggles, a grandfather..."
June 13, 2016:   "My This, My That" by Sarah Brown Weitzman   "To live in the moment is probably good advice...."
June 12, 2016:   "here is an origami of us" by Allie Marini Batts   "neatly creased, a crane. at any vertex, a sum, 180...."
June 11, 2016:   "What I Remember" by Tracey Herd   "is not the race itself but the evening..."
June 10, 2016:   "To the Belly and Back" by Joel Ferdon   "Brothers, he and I nestled under..."
June 9, 2016:   "A Box of Records" by James Haug   "Someone placed a box of records by the curb..."
June 8, 2016:   "The First Time We Went Camping" by Fay Dillof   "The road veered off..."
June 7, 2016:   "How the End Begins" by Cynthia Cruz   "My tenure as Queen..."
June 6, 2016:   "Cave" by Mark Levine   "I took my boy to hear an echo...."
June 5, 2016:   "All These Things Are Not Without Their Meanings" by Sean Singer   "Within you a red box with a needle...."
June 4, 2016:   "the roots of a mountain" by Leia Penina Wilson   "i run hard by this deep snow i know..."
June 3, 2016:   "Psalm" by Jeff Hardin   "I can't keep track..."
June 2, 2016:   "Voice from Lascaux" by Richard Broderick   "I was angry..."
June 1, 2016:   "You're Back" by Eric McHenry   "You went away and they went on..."
May 31, 2016:   "We Return Sparkling" by Felicia Zamora   "Spun                this tendency to whirl, tendency to fall..."
May 30, 2016:   "The Women" by Jane Hilberry   "They're both Midwestern, awed by the gold..."
May 29, 2016:   "Sasha Grey and Megan Fox" by Meg Johnson   "have similar jobs, right?..."
May 27, 2016:   "Ex Machina" by Camille Rankine   "Every year is the year..."
May 26, 2016:   "The Commissioner of Dread" by William Aarnes   "There's this chance you'll come home one afternoon..."
May 25, 2016:   "Time is a Horse" by Christine Gelineau   "On the bus in Wales I happen..."
May 24, 2016:   "Big Statement" by Aaron Anstett   "Then the air looks wavy..."
May 23, 2016:   "Another Country" by Jim Harrison   "I love these raw moist dawns with..."
May 22, 2016:   "How to Begin" by Catherine Abbey Hodges   "Wipe the crumbs off the counter...."
May 21, 2016:   "A Calculation of Dark" by Ruth O'Callaghan   "In this ruined light - the dark leaking into the garden..."
May 20, 2016:   "Caravaggio's Medusa As a Box of Nails" by Dennis Hinrichsen   "Forty pounds of iron/brass/wood screws..."
May 19, 2016:   "The Banderlog" by Andrew Glaze   "At the nursing home, mischievous spidery creatures..."
May 18, 2016:   "Hero" by Brandi George   "All words collapse...."
May 17, 2016:   "The Sky" by Natalie Shapero   "Whatever I care for, someone else loves it..."
May 16, 2016:   "Climb On Top of It" by Chessy Normile   "I feel tiny like a crab apple...."
May 15, 2016:   "Of Bees" by A.B. Jackson   "Bees have a Commonwealth and regiment...."
May 14, 2016:   "Tidal" by Lawrence Sail   "From each drowned river..."
May 13, 2016:   "Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt" by Jaimee Hills   "Gentle reader, you are not Brad Pitt...."
May 12, 2016:   "All The Important People #1" by Timons Esaias   "I almost took it up today..."
May 11, 2016:   "How We Drowned" by Rob MacDonald   "When the earthquake hit..."
May 10, 2016:   "Now That the Children Are Grown" by Joanna Solfrian   "and time seems wrapped up and bowed..."
May 9, 2016:   "The Death Spread" by Tyler Brewington   "A world where fall can be anything you want it to be...."
May 8, 2016:   "Oceanward" by Russell Evatt   "Nothing should hold so much..."
May 6, 2016:   "Skin Doctor on a Nude Beach" by Carolyn Raphael   "No one wants him here..."
May 5, 2016:   "Tilikum" by Stuart Bartow   "Waist or forearm clenched in maw..."
May 4, 2016:   "The Philosopher Savant Contemplates the Dangerous Sun" by Rustin Larson   "The tinsel under which I showered this morning..."
May 3, 2016:   "I Have Always Wanted an Emu" by Sharon Mesmer   "It takes guts to goose Johnny Carson..."
May 2, 2016:   "Men Are From Marvel; Women Are From DC" by Tom C. Hunley   "Worst. Therapy. Couch. Ever. I got off..."
April 30, 2016:   "Hummingbirds of the Involuntary System" by Joan Colby   "A tapestry of snakes and vines..."
April 29, 2016:   "Unfinished" by Sharon Olinka   "Your dream voice emerges...."
April 28, 2016:   "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong   "Ocean, don't be afraid...."
April 27, 2016:   "When John Berryman Faints in Front of the Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art" by Amy Newman   "When John Berryman faints in front of the Picasso..."
April 26, 2016:   "Post-Elegy" by Wayne Miller   "You were the vanishing point..."
April 25, 2016:   "the girls" by Tasha Golden   "- their lips were blooming, purple..."
April 24, 2016:   "Mr. Rogers is Flipping You Off" by Marci Rae Johnson   "- Mr. Rogers puts his pants on one leg..."
April 22, 2016:   "His Grace Asleep and Waking" by Carl Phillips   "- Despite having been raised mostly to cause..."
April 21, 2016:   "Suffer the Shriveled of Spirit to Curse at You" by Charles Harper Webb   "Does not the world-that fat lout-..."
April 20, 2016:   "To Orpheus" by Carl Dennis   "Even now, when accepting loss is considered..."
April 19, 2016:   "I, hermit" by Bob Hicok   "People scare me — most people and most..."
April 18, 2016:   "What Drives Us" by Beth Gylys   "He was like the key to a cellar..."
April 17, 2016:   "Leda Burning, Immendorf Palace, 1945" by Alison Prine   "the SS soldier..."
April 16, 2016:   "Song on the Waterfront" by Alison Prine   "I was here before the shed came down...."
April 15, 2016:   "Argonautica" by Jason Zuzga   "I unwind some helixes on the beach and slither..."
April 14, 2016:   "Protocol" by Alissa Quart   "We can't forget our time...."
April 13, 2016:   "Boats Named Women" by Rosa Lane   "Fishermen call them women..."
April 12, 2016:   "Ninth Elm" by Margaret Hanshaw   "In my dream the deer are surviving on tangerine-colored..."
April 11, 2016:   "Dark Skies Save Lives" by Victoria McArtor   "of sea turtles..."
April 10, 2016:   "In The Democracy" by Colleen O'Brien   "My father went to the mirror..."
April 9, 2016:   "Tenet Meadows" by Robert Ostrom   "Soon the committee members..."
April 8, 2016:   "Your Daily Horoscope" by Nik De Dominic   "You have a moon in your second house..."
April 7, 2016:   "Sodden Stars" by Sarah Messer   "Finally, at the wedding reception..."
April 6, 2016:   "Sodden Stars" by Brian Swann   "In my high meadow unnaturally sweet with thyme..."
April 5, 2016:   "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton   "Florida's state bird is the crane, by which we mean..."
April 4, 2016:   "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys   "I have lied about my mother...."
April 2, 2016:   "Forgive Me" by Laverne Frith   "if I do not accept splitting wood..."
April 1, 2016:   "A Whale's Heart" by Matthew Minicucci   "There's a sadness that smells..."
March 31, 2016:   "Like an Arrow that Feels" by Michael Robins   "Candor shoots a wink, heart & pang..."
March 30, 2016:   "Glass Box" by Sandra Simonds   "Today, I think I can do this for you; I can make this box for you...."
March 29, 2016:   "Wave—Particle" by Laura Bylenok   "I have graven you upon..."
March 28, 2016:   "Three-Hearted Poem" by Dean Young   "There's a slight knock at the door..."
March 27, 2016:   "Icebergs, Ilulissat" by Jean Valentine   "In blue-green air & water God..."
March 26, 2016:   "Lullaby" by Kristen Case   "All night the bareness of things presses in..."
March 25, 2016:   "The 26-Hour Day" by Olivia Clare   "It is black bear o'clock..."
March 24, 2016:   "My Beloved is Mine and I Am" by Dan Rosenberg   "still circling the airport like a moth..."
March 23, 2016:   "Nugatory" by Douglas Piccinnini   "the "correct" channel in detail..."
March 22, 2016:   "Fun House" by Jennifer Willoughby   "Tonight I am getting smaller..."
March 21, 2016:   "Song with Peacock" by Rachel Moritz   "Considering how a subject becomes an object without voice..."
March 20, 2016:   "No More Water" by Joyce Peseroff   "God so loved the world..."
March 19, 2016:   "Soundings" by Marc Frazier   "Now that nights are warm..."
March 18, 2016:   "Detail" by Barbara Claire Freeman   "Unslide a door you're not allowed..."
March 17, 2016:   "the boy detective disbpj682s his parents having sex" by Sam Sax   "take a sound. stretch it into the most horrible..."
March 16, 2016:   "Dispatch the Flies" by Andrea Baker   "A black finch sits on a black branch never wanting..."
March 15, 2016:   "The Line" by Margaret Ross   "Listen to the night give its bodies..."
March 14, 2016:   "Giant Slalom" by Erin Rodoni   "The race is won or lost in shavings of second. Now: The space..."
March 13, 2016:   "Semicolons" by Lesley Wheeler   "Samaras, sticky tender things, helicopter..."
March 12, 2016:   "What Is Missed" by Max Cohen   "I tried to plant flowers. Nothing gained...."
March 11, 2016:   "The Idea" by Matt Morton   "Attend to what melts: what redly blooms, then wilts...."
March 9, 2016:   "Translation" by Jeffrey Morgan   "The wind is groping trees again. This is what happens..."
March 8, 2016:   "Nazi Art" by Jennifer L. Knox   "The Nazi artist wasn't really a Nazi. He simply made Nazi..."
March 7, 2016:   "Charity" by Sarah Estes   "During the moment of crisis, hands..."
March 6, 2016:   "At the Sign of the Skull" by Jordan Zandi   "At the reservoir..."
March 5, 2016:   "Tangle" by Christianne Balk   "As your broad-stemmed green slowly..."
March 4, 2016:   "It's Not The Bed That's a Boat" by Corinna McClanahan Schroeder   "but our sleep. On a rumple..."
March 3, 2016:   "Careo" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "Which means I've started watching YouTube..."
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander   "Strangers on wooden islands..."
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep   "Sometimes within the natural, a little love is heard...."
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague   "If you could start..."
February 28, 2016:   "Are You The Wine" by Reeves Keyworth   "Are you the wine, dear heart..."
February 27, 2016:   "The Bears Come Home" by Dannye Romine Powell   "No way you could've known..."
February 26, 2016:   "Instructions for Going Unnoticed" by Jennifer Moore   "To disappear, become water. From the faucet..."
February 25, 2016:   "After I Lost You" by Iliana Rocha   "Night's thumb rubs the television screen..."
February 24, 2016:   "Every Place I've Ever Lived Is Gone:" by Rob Carney   "pecan groves outside of Lafayette..."
February 23, 2016:   "Rise of the Novel" by Mary Biddinger   "Your novel wintered in the East Village..."
February 22, 2016:   "Benediction Ending with Stray Dogs" by Andrew Miller   "Lord, forgive me my love of abandoned things...."
February 21, 2016:   "Chorus" by John E. Glowney   "Not that I think that we should linger..." <
February 20, 2016:   "Abuelo" by Cecilia Llompart   "How little we know, in the end. That a boat can stall..."
February 19, 2016:   "After the Girl" by Amy Woolard   "It's just a chapped lip that won't stop bleeding. Let me..."
February 18 2016:   "Observations from The Base" by Julie Bloemeke   "The problem with heights..."
February 17 2016:   "The Horses" by Kenneth Hart   "spend nearly all day with..."
February 16 2016:   "To Avoid a White Day" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont   "Death settles nothing. Let's get that straight...."
February 15 2016:   "Of Thee I Sing" by Ocean Vuong   "We're riding in the back of the black..."
February 14, 2016:   "Half-Finished Houses" by D. Nurkse   "No-Name stuck a thumb in my eyes...."
February 13, 2016:   "Wandering Dog" by Pat Hale   "A golden retriever slips into the scene..."
February 12, 2016:   "The Mall Age" by Erin Rodoni   "Thank you stars for this wilderness..." <
February 10, 2016:   "Exhibit A" by Adam Clay   "Would it be enough to suggest..."
February 9, 2016:   "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander   "So much hurling snow and the only colors..."
February 8, 2016:   "How It Is With Us, And How It Is With Them" by Mary Oliver   "We become religious..."
February 7, 2016:   "Masterwork" by Callista Buchen   "I give over, undoing like a knapsack..."
February 6, 2016:   "Heirloom" by Anna George Meek   "I inhabit lace, and delicate folds...."
February 5, 2016:   "Concord" by Lisa Bickmore   "at leaf lift, fat fruit falling..."
February 4, 2016:   "Your Days are Waiting" by Dave Harrity   "There's certainty made in the calm of a river..."
February 3, 2016:   "Vow" by Dot Devota   "As one who has slept..."
February 2, 2016:   "Medusa" by Sarah Holland-Batt   "I have always loved the translucent life..."
February 1, 2016:   "Departed Cordelia" by Katharine Whitcomb   "My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?..."
January 31, 2016:   "The Needle, The Thread" by Danielle Cadena Deulen   "What am I suppose..."
January 30, 2016:   "Absence of Red" by Lori Lamothe   "A carpet of shoes..."
January 29, 2016:   "The Death of the Oscar Mayer Wiener Girl" by Sass Brown   "From state to state I rode atop the burnished bun..."
January 28, 2016:   "Resident" by Elaine Sexton   "I take steel blue..."
January 27, 2016:   "The Calf" by Shane McCrae   "Lord I have eaten and I don't..."
January 26, 2016:   "Chest of Drawers" by Frank X Walker   "You call it needing to move furniture..."
January 24, 2016:   "Graph Paper" by Roy Mash   "Once the truth was gooey thunder. A wad..."
January 21, 2016:   "O, Grief" by Patty Paine   "Every day the white-hot..."
January 20, 2016:   "Noah, to His Dove" by Leah Falk   "With your wings of paper, fly, my bird, and find..."
January 19, 2016:   "Father" by Jessica Piazza   "A door is alarming, left open. A leaving..."
January 18, 2016:   "Summer" by Randall Mann   "The job I chose..."
January 17, 2016:   "'It's Been a Week" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan   "This year has been a year like that for me, you, already three..."
January 16, 2016:   "Jesus's Brother" by Charles Rafferty   "It was difficult living..."
January 15, 2016:   "Slutty Pumpkin" by Sarah Howden   "As you lay here, half empty beers..."
January 14, 2016:   "Dawn" by Peter Neil Carroll   "I see it coming like a banner. First light..."
January 13, 2016:   "Manners of the Flesh" by Yvonne Zipter   "If I lift my eyes toward heaven..."
January 12, 2016:   "Door of Birds" by John A. Nieves   "When the hard wind finds the high..."
January 11, 2016:   "Invention No. 7 in e minor" by Hyejung Kook   "What time was it? The wind gusted..."
January 10, 2016:   "The Devil's Villanelle" by J. R. Solonche   "I hear you want to write a villanelle...."
January 9, 2016:   "Our Refrigerator to Søren Kierkegaard, Chef De Garde Manger" by Scott Draper   "I work so hard to keep the water away...."
January 8, 2016:   "The Confessions of Eulene" by Carolyne Wright   "I eat too many Twinkies...."
January 7, 2016:   "Dear Auduboness" by Fritz Ward   "The silence between us is measured..."
January 6, 2016:   "Flowers" by Albert Goldbarth   "Ah, the soul . . . that taxi driver...."
January 5, 2016:   "Aviary" by Miriam Kotzin   "My heart had become home..."
January 4, 2016:   "Harbingers" by Gregory Djanikian   "Always the small before the large..."
January 3, 2016 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Demolition Psalm" by Benjamin Goldberg   "Too often sledgehammers are the answer..."
January 2, 2016 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Ordinary Citizens" by Mary Biddinger   "When you are taught never to taste..."
January 1, 2016 (A 2015 Favorite):   "On Hearing of Your Hearing Loss" by Jessica Goodfellow   "You heard the last trapdoor close..."
December 31, 2015 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Antlers in the Conference Room" by Lee Upton   "It's not loud at first around a crowd of us..."
December 30, 2015 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Women Defending Castle with Bow and Crossbow" by Christine Stewart-Nuñez   "Only posies? Without arrows..."
December 29, 2015 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Nyquil" by Timothy Donnelly   "Everyone had been going on about the wind..."
December 28, 2015 (A 2015 Favorite):   "For the Cliff that Is Leaving Us" by Amy Sparks   "It's not shearing off or making..."
December 27, 2015 (A 2015 Favorite):   "Banality" by Gregory Djanikian   "There's something to be said for banality..."
December 25, 2015:   "How to Make a Birthday Cake" by Sarah Pemberton Strong   "Put one granule of sugar in your mouth...."
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond   "So when I arrived in hell, the sign said..."
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez   "I am bored with all this emptiness, God said..."
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz   "The snow taps a pattern..."
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland   "Or is it border-patrol duty dawn to dusk..."
December 20, 2015:   "Do Birds Sing from Sheer Exuberance" by Paul Jenkins   "Or is it border-patrol duty dawn to dusk..."
December 19, 2015:   "Beauty Be" by MRB Chelko   "fogged each a distinct cataract blue..."
December 18, 2015:   "Pond" by Bianca Lech   "sticking my head into..."
December 17, 2015:   "Man" by Rebecca Lehmann   "Day-born, man springs into the demarcated forest..."
December 16, 2015:   "This Little Piggy" by Adam Vines   "Like a cat lured by its tail..."
December 15, 2015:   "Upton's Field" by Leslie Adrienne Miller   "Even then she guessed they were mostly..."
December 14, 2015:   "Mind in Flock, Mind Apart" by K. A. Hays   "They scatter high, the grackles. What's to know..."
December 13, 2015:   "Room Key" by David Lehman   "I find you here, my lord Ares, god of strife..."
December 12, 2015:   "Plane Full of Soldiers" by Richard Newman   "[5:50 am, a week before Christmas...."
December 11, 2015:   "It Does Kind of Burn. Goodbye." by Henry Crawford   "[he was burning] and [he was trying to tell us something]..."
December 10, 2015:   "The Night and the Cold" by Charles Simic   "Torturers with happy faces..."
December 9, 2015:   "Sugar" by Hadara Bar-Nadav   "Secret boxes..."
December 8, 2015:   "the landscape" by Zach Savich   "the landscape isn't over..."
December 7, 2015:   "The Death of Edward Hopper (1967)" by Campbell McGrath   "Night after night the foghorn..."
December 6, 2015:   "O Mercy Me" by Rebecca Gayle Howell   "The dirt storms regular now..."
December 5, 2015:   "Nashville After Hours" by Ada Limón   "Late night in a honky-tonk, fried pickles..."
December 4, 2015:   "Sidewalks" by Allison Joseph   "Why should I be the one who walks afraid..."
December 3, 2015:   "Rings" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "Distance gels the ghostly into fictions..."
December 2, 2015:   "Lambing" by Luke Hollis   "Velvet hide of the still lamb's muzzle..."
December 1, 2015:   "NyQuil" by Timothy Donnelly   "Everyone had been going on about the wind..."
November 30, 2015:   "Hotel" by Ruth Madievsky   "Whenever I wonder whether our bodies..."
November 29, 2015:   "Before Spring" by Megan Peak   "It's still cool enough to let out a breath and see..."
November 28, 2015:   "Remember, Body" by Jessica Durham   "Remember, body, all of your houses..."
November 27, 2015:   "Two Whooping Cranes Are Found Shot Dead in Hopkins County" by Anna B. Sutton   "I've never been close enough to a man..."
November 26, 2015:   "The Cracking Place" by Ruth Foley   "If the old rule was to fight the shattering..."
November 25, 2015:   "On Hearing of Your Hearing Loss" by Jessica Goodfellow   "You heard the last trapdoor close..."
November 21, 2015:   "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" by Thomas Lux   "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015:   "Ascension" by Philip Levine   "Now I see the stars..."
November 18, 2015:   "Snow" by Nellie Bridge   "The man acted badly, by all accounts..."
November 17, 2015:   "Smetana" by Bruce Bond   "When an ear creates its own private pitch..."
November 16, 2015:   "The Desired Change Will Occur" by Bill Carty   "I release a magenta tetragonal lattice kite..."
November 15, 2015:   "Twins" by Brian Strang   "fall at the feet of the mother of twins..."
November 14, 2015:   "Love" by Rae Gouirand   "This is the crack: I don't have to ask..."
November 13, 2015:   "Ostrichland" by Kristin Robertson   "Before I went full-on, pinioned-wing crazy..."
November 12, 2015:   "Grandeur in a mug of wine" by Alexis Pope   "day opens wide..."
November 11, 2015:   "Pigeons" by Devon Moore   "Saw an old love..."
November 10, 2015:   "Indoor Tundra" by Julie Hanson   "The little that happens happens so slightly...."
November 9, 2015:   "Forced Analogy" by John Estes   "When at last occurs..."
November 8, 2015:   "Squall" by June Rockefeller   "I once watched a storm cross a pasture...."
November 7, 2015:   "Light" by Ottilie Mulzet   "The light gradually eats away at..."
November 6, 2015:   "Fishing in the Dark" by Rob Griffith   "The Mississippi night begins to pale..."
November 5, 2015:   "Singlehanded" by Matt Salyer   "Black apertures in a field of ghost..."
November 4, 2015:   "Welcome to North Fork" by Matt Mortonr   "Hello, this is our town. We built it..."
November 3, 2015:   "Arrowhead" by Tasha Cotter   "To understanding the word enemy, imagine..."
November 2, 2015:   "Ritual Training: Lake Erie, 2003" by Alexis Pope   "Interested in nothing is how I explained myself..."
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips   "The oars of the ship called Late Forgiveness lift..."
October 31, 2015:   "Tamerlion" by Kasey Erin Phifer-Byrne   "I still felt them..."
October 30, 2015:   "Elegy to a Black Bear Head Poorly Stuffed and Mounted" by Charlie Clark   "Whoever did this must be..."
October 29, 2015:   "Demolition Psalm" by Benjamin Goldberg   "Too often sledgehammers are the answer..."
October 28, 2015:   "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt   "Here comes the old man with his coffee..."
October 27, 2015:   "Trinity" by Bruce Bond   "Small things have a different logic to them...."
October 24, 2015:   "The Hunters, The Woods" by Caroline Knapp   "A letter does not arrive...."
October 23, 2015:   "Ordinary Citizens" by Mary Biddinger   "When you are taught never to taste..."
October 22, 2015:   "Like An Oyster Opening" by Caroline Manring   "Happycakes, grimy brains..."
October 21, 2015:   "There Are Days" by Julie Suk   "I do nothing but watch the birds..."
October 20, 2015:   "Field Religion" by Kathleen Hellen   "A woman I knew (a neighbor)..."
October 19, 2015:   "Field Religion" by Doug Ramspeck   "The old men fishing at the river..."
October 18, 2015:   "Elegy for the Hall of Health" by Lucille Lang Day   "Little museum with the heart that opened..."
October 17, 2015:   "Zombies All Around" by George Guida   "They fall forward through heavy brush..."
October 16, 2015:   "[Thought back to that first]" by Simeon Berry   "Thought back to that first..."
October 14, 2015:   "Wolf Pack" by Ronald Wallace   "One night when I was twelve and alone in the..."
October 13, 2015:   "[Songbirds]" by Aaron McCollough   "Songbirds. Leaves steeped till sour...."
October 12, 2015:   "[ body, defeat, chiaroscuro, memory ]" by Jenny Drai   "I know that you stained me..."
October 11, 2015:   "A Judge Orders The Opening of Federico García Lorca's Grave" by Ray Gonzalez   "Leave the dead alone...."
October 10, 2015:   "Odyssey" by Gary Glauber   "In my line of work, nuance is dangerous...."
October 9, 2015:   "The Old Ones" by Sonja James   "In a solitary flash..."
October 8, 2015:   "The Angels of the Resurrection" by Lynn Emanuel   "Even when it's become a piece of furniture..."
October 7, 2015:   "Nobody Knows" by Marsha de la O   "We had to imagine you even then, Ramon, your star lost..."
October 6, 2015:   "Instead" by Rick Bursky   "We taught our horses to be wild, our dogs to shoot guns...."
October 5, 2015:   "Home Fires" by Ada Limón   "Crowned newly with a fearsome cutting..."
October 4, 2015:   "Autogeography" by David Ebenbach   "Finally, the body is littered with landscapes..."
October 3, 2015:   "Confession of a Bird Watcher" by Chard deNiord   "The windows are dressed in feathers where the birds have flown against them..."
October 2, 2015:   "Coyotes" by Jacqueline Marcus   "They must have taken the moon with them..."
September 30, 2015:   "Radiant Reflection" by Matt Hart   "And commences, some suddenly, some..."
September 29, 2015:   "The One True Thing" by Noelle Kocot   "Today a turtle..."
September 28, 2015:   "The Insomniac" by Charles Simic   "There's a pond, a man said..."
September 27, 2015:   "Cloon" by Ben Howard   "How well it imitates, this Irish word..."
September 26, 2015:   "The Excommunicated: Sea Anemones" by Cara Chamberlain   "Animals disguised..."
September 25, 2015:   "Lost Lands" by Judith Barrington   "The thinking, old and new, is still about loss..."
September 24, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish, Hope, and Other Four-Letter Words" by Stephen Dunn   "Mrs. Cavendish, let's continue, out of habit, to expect..."
September 23, 2015:   "Marriage Flesh of My Flesh, Bone of My Bone" by Marcela Sulak   "A bone stretched to its full length, in its private..."
September 22, 2015:   "My Accent" by Goran Simić   "I love my accent, I love that wild sea..."
September 21, 2015:   "Upon the Thirthieth Anniversary of Hank Aaron Surpassing Babe Ruth as All-Time Homerun King" by TJ Beitelman   "The sky opened in the ten minutes it took to fete..."
September 20, 2015:   "Horses Dream of Horses" by Nancy Reddy   "May I call you..."
September 19, 2015:   "The Death of the Snake Handler" by Kathleen Driskell   "He was buried with his good book..."
September 18, 2015:   "Love Poem with Snake Handler & Church of God with Signs Following" by Casey Thayer   "Not blood, the watery red handprint..."
September 17, 2015:   "Harping" by Judy Rowe Michaels   "While most of us are grieving..."
September 16, 2015:   "Lorazepam" by Sam Sax   "i don't know shit..."
September 15, 2015:   "Blustery" by Neil Shepard   "Blustery 25-below, 0 Walt, I wouldn't go..."
September 14, 2015:   "Banality" by Gregory Djanikian   "There's something to be said for banality..."
September 13, 2015:   "Gatekeeper" by Daniel Y. Harris   "From the gate, another gate behind..."
September 12, 2015:   "What I Asked For" by Daryl Muranaka   "Our last afternoon..."
September 9, 2015:   "Patriarch" by Rebecca Morgan Frank   "The father is the mother of absence. Ina..."
September 8, 2015:   "The Exotics" by Kate Gaskin   "What was it you said..."
September 7, 2015:   "Poetry is not adornment. a truth" by Siwar Masannat   "I don't see how you, pried..."
September 6, 2015:   "Orpheus, Resigned" by Jan Bottiglieri   "I sang beauty over and she stayed...."
September 5, 2015:   "Yes, But More Animals" by Gale Marie Thompson   "I am here dreaming of the Okavango, of lean times...."
September 4, 2015:   "Kite" by Dore Kiesselbach   "It took three hands to hold and knot the line..."
September 2, 2015:   "Wreck" by Robin Beth Schaer   "Hammered by stars, the island bides..."
September 1, 2015:   "[That]" by Leslie Harrison   "That this is the morning in which nothing much..."
August 31, 2015:   "Women Defending Castle with Bow and Crossbow" by Christine Stewart-Nuñez   "Only posies? Without arrows..."
August 30, 2015:   "What Breathes Us" by Barry Spacks   "Regards to the day, the great long day..."
August 29, 2015:   "The Birds That Night" by Judy Rowe Michaels   "The birds that night were saying No..."
August 28, 2015:   "Shrine for Every Part of You" by Jen Currin   "In discord..."
August 27, 2015:   "Creation" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "At dawn, we let our hybrids fly free of their cages and watched..."
August 26, 2015:   "Poem for the Giraffe Marius" by Christopher Kempf   "Because, they said, genetics. Et..."
August 25, 2015:   "Antlers in the Conference Room" by Lee Upton   "It's not loud at first around a crowd of us..."
August 24, 2015:   "Passage" by Caylin Capra-Thomas   "It's hard to tell what will be important. The river..."
August 23, 2015:   "Losing the Words" by Ruth Thompson   "Wantons, they'd give themselves to anyone!..."
August 22, 2015:   "Hive" by Eileen Moeller   "She feels the tireless..."
August 21, 2015:   "In which rooms do we put what we can't stand to remember?" by Allison Funk   "In his memory palace, Matteo Ricci..."
August 20, 2015:   "In the Home for Elderly Vehicular Manslaughterers by the Sea" by Paul Hostovsky   "The guilt, like the sand, is in everything..."
August 19, 2015:   "The Patience of the Land Mine" by Okla Elliott   "Weeds grow over rusty death..."
August 18, 2015:   "Hugs" by Tomaž Šalamun   "Let's say, through the crenel, little..."
August 17, 2015:   "The Feeling" by Ari Banias   "Each spring, a cloud travels up from the south..."
August 16, 2015:   "The Dead' s Bright Copperas" by Sarah Sousa   "Could it be held in a bottle like smoke..."
August 15, 2015:   "Cenobites" by Orlando Ricardo Menes   "Heaven is bone dust and iodine clouds..."
August 14, 2015:   "Against arranged line & proportion, in defiance of" by Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni   "scale, favoring curve & bend, we'd give..."
August 13, 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett   "I went to the market to sell this..."
August 12, 2015:   "The Cardboard Fawn" by L.S. Klatt   "While it is living, while it is vital, the cardboard fawn folds itself..."
August 11, 2015:   "The Storm" by Mairi MacInnes   "Juddering, heaving blasts..."
August 10, 2015:   "Dürer in the Valley of Oleanders" by Kyle McCord   "One wastes time..."
August 9, 2015:   "Starstruck" by Kate Bernadette Benedict   "We defined our eyes with Sophia's kohls..."
August 8, 2015:   "Haunted" by Gail White   "My mother was burned, not buried..."
August 7, 2015:   "a pathologist's prayer" by Gail Waldstein M.D.   "what I see first is a                   child's corpse..."
August 6, 2015:   "Dusk Waitress" by Claire Millikin   "At the end of childhood, I worked in a restaurant...."
August 5, 2015:   "Manifesto for Tumor and Poem" by Jo Ann Clark   "It must be home-and slowly-grown..."
August 4, 2015:   "Revenant" by Randolph Thomas   "A naked woman walks out of the water..."
August 3, 2015:   "Letter from Egg Lake Road" by Erin Malone   "It troubles me to tell you the sky today..."
August 2, 2015:   "Obsession" by Catherine Breese Davis   "Tenacious, parasitic ghost..."
August 1, 2015:   "Come Quietly Fond Memories" by Melanie Sevcenko   "The taxidermist looked at the creamy musculature of cumulus..."
July 30, 2015:   "The Taxidermist & the Cloud" by Michael Bazzett   "The taxidermist looked at the creamy musculature of cumulus..."
July 29, 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren   "The bush sings brightly by..."
July 28, 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)   "so much sleep in only one tree..."
July 27, 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell   "I am a restless soul born of a restless man..."
July 26, 2015:   "The Ship Builder" by Nancy Scott   "Perhaps by a quirk of hormonal imbalance..."
July 25, 2015:   "Tide Pool" by Mary Zeppa   "Flat fish the color..."
July 24, 2015:   "Manic" by Abdul Ali   "the fire escape cat calls..."
July 23, 2015:   "Baseball" by Paul Pines   "God sometimes speaks to me with the voice of Carl Furillo..."
July 22, 2015:   "The Ghost Horse" by Re'Lynn Hansen   "We were going to get a horse...."
July 21, 2015:   "[And behind me lies a man]" by Julie Carr   "And behind me lies a man..."
July 20, 2015:   "Mawpin" by Brandon Courtney   "My mother unfolds..."
July 19, 2015:   "I" by Zachariah Wells   "Such a slim barrow into which to stuff..."
July 18, 2015:   "Memo to the Girl in the Body of a Boy" by Susan Terris   "if bone and bone were split..."
July 17, 2015:   "How to Refund Your Identity" by Nicholas Wong   "if bone and bone were split..."
July 16, 2015:   "when we all up and vanish at last" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "may our abandoned chickens..."
July 14, 2015:   "Vernal" by Rebecca Foust   "Some things we believe cannot be redeemed...."
July 13, 2015:   "Song" by Dan Beachy-Quick   "To put the moon back in a song. To put back the sun..."
July 12, 2015:   "Dreams" by Richard O. Moore   "I had hoped for clarity..."
July 11, 2015:   "The Nemesis of Weekends" by Eric Ekstrand   "Monday through Friday..."
July 10, 2015:   "For Knives, Bridges, and Balconies" by Devon Moore   "The pears I bought and put in the glass bowl are cinnamon stick red..."
July 9, 2015:   "elegy" by Marty McConnell   "We love who we can love, and the rest..."
July 8, 2015:   "Poetics" by Mark Leidner   "A device designed to detect delusions of grandeur..."
July 7, 2015:   "Offering" by Stevie Edwards   "This is what I have to give you. Leftovers..."
July 6, 2015:   "Two Selves in Springtime" by Lauren Haldeman   "Two selves dry myself with the moveable lawn. Two selves..."
July 5, 2015:   "There Was a Deer Whom the Carthean Nymphs Held Sacred" by Kathleen Halme   "I was a god in that body...."
July 4, 2015:   "Cerberus and Persepone" by Ellen Kombiyil   "It's audible to the three-headed dog..."
July 3, 2015:   "Penultimate Poem" by Matthew Zapruder   "Let us walk one more time very slowly..."
July 2, 2015:   "Twenty Weeks" by Jennifer K. Sweeney   "We peeked into the fishbowl galaxy today..."
July 1, 2015:   "The Jealous Gods" by Joseph Green   "When He made the Big Bang..."
June 30, 2015:   "Sword Swallower" by Jenny George   "The soul enters the body..."
June 29, 2015:   "Doing the Loop" by Andrea Cohen   "The rules are made in factories...."
June 28, 2015:   "My Herculaneum" by Jennifer Franklin   "When I arrived, I thought I knew how to live...."
June 26, 2015:   "Neanderthal" by Jeffrey Brown   "Red disk, handprint..."
June 25, 2015:   "Self-Portrait as a Child's Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" by Tom C. Hunley   "Often I'm a musical instrument..."
June 24, 2015:   "Jerusalem" by Samantha Reiser   "In the dark city, the roads unwound themselves..."
June 23, 2015:   "In Disbpj682y Park" by Sonia Greenfield   "The hummingbird follows me..."
June 22, 2015:   "Aubade" by Meg Day   "As if one is a shadow stitched to the other..."
June 21, 2015:   "September" by Deborah Landau   "Dazzling emptiness of the back green end of summer no one..."
June 20, 2015:   "Tranquility Pike" by Joshua Butts   "A flash across the windshield at late day..."
June 19, 2015:   "Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede" by Richard Siken   "I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned..."
June 18, 2015:   "Pictograph: Falling Buffalo" by Melissa Kwasny   "Finger-pads pawed the crusted stone..."
June 17, 2015:   "34." by Sally Keith   "In Spain, the table we ate around was rectangular...."
June 16, 2015:   "Dumb" by Jo McDougall   "You would think the dog..."
June 15, 2015:   "Red Fox" by Robert Aquinas McNally   "No one in town dares speak..."
June 14, 2015:   "Back Porch, 1862" by Katie Bickham   "The woman tugged her soft robe around herself..."
June 13, 2015:   "Going Under" by Anne Marie Macari   "The meat inside the earth is packed..."
June 12, 2015:   "Hearing Sylvia Plath's Voice, circa 1962" by Parneshia Jones   "I expected something tragic...."
June 11, 2015:   "A Theme Song That Never Gets Old" by Christopher Citro   "We keep a bear above our bed...."
June 10, 2015:   "Advice from the Robot Scientist's Daughter" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   "After all, the moon has fallen asleep and you are alone...."
June 9, 2015:   "Interval" by William Stobb   "It shouldn't be rare, this ability..."
June 8, 2015:   "Thou" by Joshua McKinney   "While I stood there, bewildered..."
June 7, 2015:   "Memory Is the Rig" by Rodger Moody   "I can't erase Interstate So from memory...."
June 6, 2015:   "Catholicon" by Steve Mueske   "Some say the worth of a bird..."
June 5, 2015:   "Will You" by Kathryn Rantala   "Wolf heavy..."
June 4, 2015:   "On the Island where I come from" by Nin Andrews   "women rule. They run the country, control the wealth, and decide who..."
June 3, 2015:   "Regretfully Yours" by Jessica Goodfellow   "Who knows a burden better than a willow?..."
June 2, 2015:   "My Father Dreams of Horses" by Susannah Nevison   "If your daughter is born..."
June 1, 2015:   "Report (1)" by Diane Glancy   "It moved inside us..."
May 31, 2015:   "Remove All Dads" by Michelle Peñaloza   "People do not laugh at our dead dad jokes...."
May 30, 2015:   "Heimlich for a Heavenly Windpipe" by George David Clark   "Like ice-cold cola in its transit through a plastic straw..."
May 29, 2015:   "The Cleanliness of Porn Stars" by Jay Nebel   "Suppose the desert feeds on a mammoth..."
May 28, 2015:   "Distant Buffaloes" by Carol Potter   "How you feel about any one thing at any given moment..."
May 27, 2015:   "Patriot" by Laurie Saurborn Young   "Mostly Americans, my friends are getting married..."
May 26, 2015:   "The Great Troublemaker Thinks About the Soul" by Sigman Byrd   "I wait for you, monkeyshine..."
May 24, 2015:   "Island, With Goats" by Rose Solari   "The hard-hooved, thick-furred bodies packed..."
May 23, 2015:   "Saturday" by Lex Runciman   "Light squares the windows...."
May 22, 2015:   "Looking at Playboy with My Boyfriend" by Yvonne Higgins Leach   "Each of their perfections..."
May 21, 2015:   "Garment Industry" by Jehanne Dubrow   "My mother lifts a seam ripper, its miniature..."
May 20, 2015:   "Breathing" by Ellery Akers   "I love to feel as if, I'm just another body, a breather along with the others..."
May 19, 2015:   "Ghost Sycamore" by Cecilia Woloch   "The winter I knew you weren't coming back..."
May 18, 2015:   "Prophesying to the Breath" by Maryann Corbett   "I'm tired of it, this labored breathing. Tired..."
May 17, 2015:   Two poems by Jaime Brunton & Russell Evatt   "In this land vines slip and weave into vines..."
May 16, 2015:   "Blackberry Buzzing" by Maria Terrone   "I love the feel against my hip or hand..."
May 15, 2015:   "For the Cliff that Is Leaving Us" by Amy Sparks   "It's not shearing off or making..."
May 14, 2015:   "Gull with Telephone Wire" by Lynne Potts   "She painted a boat on the flat of the harbor..."
May 13, 2015:   "Nethering" by Peter Cooley   "Heaven is only my next moment here..."
May 12, 2015:   "Motor By" by Emily Wolahan   "You never said northern air was a cure-all..."
May 11, 2015:   "Parsnips" by Eleanor Stanford   "Late sown, they grow..."
April 30, 2015:   "The Dream of Parsnips" by Kimiko Hahn   "Do I wish for a box of cigars-or dynamite?..."
April 29, 2015:   "Always Throw the First Fish Back" by Jynne Dilling Martin   "The world resembles a phantom vessel destined..."
April 28, 2015:   "What's Owed" by Dan Rosenberg   "When I carry you..."
April 26, 2015:   "Dog Heart" by Noel Crook   "He lies still, breath clouding the slate tiles..."
April 25, 2015:   "energy" by Beth Bachmann   "Sometimes, after snow, you find yourself in a field..."
April 24, 2015:   "The Gentleman Hunters Run Their Hounds" by John Hoppenthaler   "Let's hasten through this early spring plague..."
April 23, 2015:   "Octopus Vulgaris" by Nicky Beer   "The tank bubbles intermittently..."
April 22, 2015:   "The Old Happiness" by Michael Dennis Browne   "bring back the old happiness..."
April 21, 2015:   "Rear View Mirror" by Joan Murray   "If you'd seen her there, trying to rise, you'd understand..."
April 20, 2015:   "Bucolic (After Heavy Rain)" by Richard Foerster   "Ah, this lush life..."
April 19, 2015:   "Numbering in the Many" by Brandon Kreitler   "God liked it when I brought my nets to the shore...."
April 17, 2015:   "If We Must be Symbolic" by Bryan Narendorf   "What floats in the air is foundling and sleight..."
April 16, 2015:   "Casualty Notificaton" by Jehanne Dubrow   "Switch channels, stop..."
April 15, 2015:   "Field Design" by Rebecca A. Spears   "We have no roof to contain the small flock..."
April 14, 2015:   "Limantour" by Rebecca Black   "Scrim of trees..."
April 13, 2015:   "Monkey Island" by Kathleen McGookey   "The monkeys inside me are sick of speaking the wrong..."
April 12, 2015:   "Manatee" by Robert J. Levy   "Not everything's deep. Like this manatee..."
April 11, 2015:   "Morning Song" by James Reiss   "I will button my shirt wrong...."
April 10, 2015:   "Terms of Service" by Sean Bishop   "The signed agrees to breath, to the lungs' soggy bellows...."
April 9, 2015:   "Western Sand Dollars" by C. J. Sage   "They poise their mouths..."
April 8, 2015:   "Penguin Shot" by Katharine Coles   "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
April 7, 2015:   "Money" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
April 6, 2015:   "Class of Whatever" by Annelyse Gelman   "I can't recall what I did the night..."
April 5, 2015:   "Monterey" by Linda Tieber   "It's quite late..."
April 4, 2015:   "Dark Matter" by Valerie Nieman   "Seaweed, scoured from the deep, scatters..."
April 3, 2015:   "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Paul Breslin   "Oh, they'd scold me. But then..."
April 2, 2015:   "Human Atlas" by Marianne Boruch   "Because the body really..."
April 1, 2015:   "In the winter" by Khaty Xiong   "In the winter..."
March 31, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn   "Mrs. Cavendish was aware of the tick..."
March 30, 2015:   "Passing Phase" by Benjamin Busch   "My formative years have begun again..."
March 29, 2015:   "Against the Urban Night" by Jane Hoogestraat   "Remember from routes tangled now the precise..."
March 28, 2015:   "Glassy Apparatus" by John Philip Drury   "I'm drunk in a distillery of light..."
March 27, 2015:   "Movements Altogether" by Laura Eve Engel   "All around me there's..."
March 26, 2015:   "Firstborn" by Dara-Lyn Shrager   "I writhe. I nearly drown...."
March 25, 2015:   "Triage" by Adam Crittenden   "I throw a fistful of leeches..."
March 24, 2015:   "Pantoum in Wartime" by Marilyn Hacker   "Were the mountain women sold as slaves..."
March 23, 2015:   "Jellyfish" by Jessica Johnson   "What cleanly-drawn, transparent beings..."
March 22, 2015:   "Father Belongs to the River" by Christopher Ankney   "And not to the gun-slinging shadow sitting..."
March 21, 2015:   "Atoms in Their Orbits" by Aaron Anstett   "The particulars of remembering, spray..."
March 20, 2015:   "Fourth Ballad from the Labyrinth" by Paula Cisewski   "Had to be my own..."
March 19, 2015:   "Mirrors" by Afaa Michael Weaver   "We pull ourselves open..."
March 18, 2015:   "Wonderful" by David Welch   "I do not wish, the boy said, to be honest with you...."
March 17, 2015:   "My Life as a Hummer" by Terrance Hayes   "My life as a hummer followed my life..."
March 16, 2015:   "Aasifa" by Andy Young   "in the desert there is nothing..."
March 15, 2015:   "Coyotes" by Lori Lamothe   "Their howls rip sleep in two. Night's gone into labor..."
March 14, 2015:   "The Geo Logic of Reincarnation" by Kelly Nelson   "If the stories are hue, most souls choose to return..."
March 13, 2015:   "Revision" by Laura Van Prooyen   "Understand, this is a story. You are gone..."
March 12, 2015:   "Foreclosure" by Cynthia Hogue   "I was leaving the large house for good...."
March 11, 2015:   "Seizure" by Eliot Khalil Wilson   "I tried lifting him like a rain-warped window..."
March 10, 2015:   "Immense Fields of Work" by Sandra Simonds   "Waking up to the gray farm redoubles your doubts...."
March 9, 2015:   "Suddenly a Wayward to Thinking Words" by Jake Syersak   "To understand a scene..."
March 6, 2015:   "Escaped Housewife Gives Three Good Reasons for Taking Up the Bagpipes" by Karen Craigo   "On occasion she has cried..."
March 5, 2015:   "My Brother's Insomnia" by Eric Pankey   "A boy ties (but will not remember how)..."
March 4, 2015:   "Poetry" by Naomi Mulvihill   "Child of a lighthouse keeper and a firewatch..."
March 3, 2015:   "Inventory" by Oliver Bendorf   "They said there would be spiders...."
March 2, 2015:   "Loose Strife" by Quan Barry   "Somebody says draw a map. Populate it with the incidents...."
March 1, 2015:   "Matchbook" by Richard Garcia   "My footsteps are loud, as if I were in a large room...."
February 28, 2015:   "Memoir" by Mihaela Moscaliuc   "Noica says somewhere the only fruit that never ripens is man...."
February 27, 2015:   "Know" by Kevin Higgins   "The day you say you believe in..."
February 23, 2015:   "Field Theory" by Robert Morgan   "In those days they grew sweet potatoes..."
February 22, 2015:   "A Message to Po Chu-I" by W. S. Merwin   "In that tenth winter of your exile.."
February 21, 2015:   "Material" by Jessica Anne Cuello   "Beat, the bird wing..."
February 20, 2015:   "Wal★Mart Supercenter" by Erika Meitner   "God Bless America says the bumper sticker on the racer-red..."
February 19, 2015:   "In a Landscape: XIII" by John Gallaher   "How many people haven't you married, that you thought..."
February 18, 2015:   "Lost" by Eric Pankey   "In the distance, a river..."
February 17, 2015:   "Secondary" by Albert Goldbarth   "En route to the Earth-that's..."
February 16, 2015:   "Love is Not an Emergency" by Erin Belieu   "More like weather, that is..."
February 15, 2015:   "A Religious Experience" by Judith Arcana   "The third hurricane of my life turned out to be only..."
February 14, 2015:   "Sonnet Love" by Catherine Chandler   "I love the way its rhythm and its rhymes..."
February 13, 2015:   "Margins" by Kelly Moffett   "Tonight, I belong to a series I should call..."
February 12, 2015:   "After Whitman" by Joseph P. Wood   "Spun east on California I-10..."
February 11, 2015:   "Where Is My Wife?" by Kathryn Starbuck   "Where is my wife..."
February 10, 2015:   "Anchorite in Autumn" by Chard deNiord   "She rose from bed and coughed..."
February 9, 2015:   "To Certain Students" by V. Penelope Pelizzon   "On all the days I shut my door to light..."
February 8, 2015:   "Surprise Party" by Gil Fagiani   "Mom asked what kind of pie..."
February 7, 2015:   "The Brink" by Caki Wilkinson   "Wynona Stone is having trouble broaching...."
February 6, 2015:   "Where Babies Come From" by Karen Skolfield   "I thought they were handing me a baby..."
February 5, 2015:   "Understanding Oliver Twist" by Jeff Alessandrelli   "Every orphanage is a womb..."
February 4, 2015:   "My Mother Chasing Ursa Major" by Suzanne Roszak   "Now she is impossibly young. Now she is flung..."
February 3, 2015:   "First Language" by Paul Hoover   "No time for the real; it's much too slow...."
February 2, 2015:   "Labor Poem #7" by Dan Alter   "His trailer up. The salt air and damp, the old..."
February 1, 2015:   "Late Harvest" by Jeredith Merrin   "His trailer up. The salt air and damp, the old..."
January 31, 2015:   "Dusk Litany" by Michael Keenan   "Cold scarves, Erika, ready..."
January 30, 2015:   "Love Song (Surat, Gujarat, 1992)" by Kirun Kapur   "From the bedroom they moved to the street...."
January 29, 2015:   "True north" by Kristina Marie Darling   "From the start you made me promise not to ask..."
January 28, 2015:   "The Girls Who Work at the Makeup Counter" by Kerry-Lee Powell   "The girls who work at the makeup counter..."
January 27, 2015:   "The Joins" by Chana Bloch   "What's between us..."
January 26, 2015:   "Dead Bat" by Ted Kooser   "When I slid out my heavy thrift-store..."
January 25, 2015:   "Black Box" by Randall Mann   "I was someone's..."
January 24, 2015:   "Mock Heroic" by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc   "I knew a girl who came..."
January 23, 2015:   "The Lost Boys" by Ashley Mace Havird   "They'd played out the name game..."
January 22, 2015:   "The Stork" by Cynthia Marie Hoffman   "When the stork fishes us out..."
January 21, 2015:   "A System of Holding" by Kimberly Grey   "If there's a horse in the mindfield, if there's more than one horse..."
January 20, 2015:   "in the clear long after" by Olena Kalytiak Davis   "Spring is cheap, but clean of sky...."
January 19, 2015:   "A Month of Sundays" by Terrence Chiusano   "To say yes is to be..."
January 16, 2015:   "Owls in the City Hills" by D.R. Goodman   "how they hunt us..."
January 15, 2015:   "High-Strung" by Judith Skillman   "I weave the night..."
January 14, 2015:   "Homely" by Mary Elder   "A simple hand is cold..."
January 13, 2015:   "Annunciation" by Ronnie Yates   "Mary abandoned to the delectable horses..."
January 12, 2015:   "The Human Velocity" by Doug Ramspeck   "When, last August, our neighbor 's house burned down..."
January 11, 2015:   "And Want Shall Shun You" by Jessica Piazza   "The ladies and gentleman, dapper....."
January 10, 2015:   "Café Terrace at Night by Jessica Piazza   "The ladies and gentleman, dapper....."
January 9, 2015:   Two poems by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.   "Even James had had it with shrines...."
January 8, 2015:   "Evergreen Cemetery, 1990" by M. P. Ritger   "Now that I am..."
January 7, 2015:   "Mississippi Crossing" by Kevin Heaton   "I rise from black dirt, reconciled to mallows..."
January 6, 2015:   "Pinocchio's Elegy for the Unreal" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis   "Here's the rub: you're on your own...."
January 5, 2015:   "New Year" by Ed Ochester   "after calling our son & daughter..."
January 4, 2015 (A 2014 Favorite):   "A No Good Thunderstorm" by Alexis Pope   "Dear Hurricane, my name is gentle..."
January 3, 2015 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Orison" by Betsy Sholl   "Let me give back to God..."
January 2, 2015 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Matins for the Last Frost" by Kimberly Johnson   "Patient in their dark hibernacle..."
January 1, 2015 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Dear Empire," by Oliver de la Paz   "These are your jellyfish...."
December 31, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Coping With Mental Illness" by Billi MacTighe   "I hugged a baby gator and the Natives..."
December 30, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Sincerely, the Sky" by David Hernandez   "Yes, I see you down there..."
December 29, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Eight Buffalo" by Cecilia Llompart   "An obstinacy of buffalo..."
December 28, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Scotch Tape World" by Tom C. Hunley   "Taping my thigh and calf together..."
December 27, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Bumper crop" by Bob Hicok   "This child had such an easygoingmanner..."
December 26, 2014 (A 2014 Favorite):   "Personal Ruin" by Claire Wahmanholm   "Dear blahs..."
December 25, 2014:   "Dormant" by Katherine Smith   "We sleep so naturally..."
December 24, 2014:   "Why Should I Stand for Jesus" by Scott Bailey   "When I win four hundred dollars at the National Tobacco Spitting Contest..."
December 23, 2014:   "Cranberry Sauce Provides an Improper Dressing for the Modern Turkey" by Natasha Kochicheril Moni   "One day post-Thanksgiving my mother delivers a eulogy..."
December 22, 2014:   "Confronting Plagiarism" by Christopher Goodrich   "You expect tears, groveling..."
December 21, 2014:   "Psyche" by Joelle Biele   "That I pushed too hard, that I did not..."
December 20, 2014:   "African Evening" by Shane Book   "I had a thing for mange...."
December 19, 2014:   "Blue Heron on the Nest" by Coyla Barry   "Today I stand in the shadow, binoculars..."
December 18, 2014:   "Valentine" by Joseph Millar   "It's February in North Carolina..."
December 17, 2014:   "On Highland Road" by Michael White   "The wilderness at the end of the road..."
December 16, 2014:   "July 13, 1946" by Jessica Jacobs   "It is difficult on Sundays..."
December 15, 2014:   "Bodies" by Tim Craven   "In a mass grave in the Atacama..."
December 14, 2014:   "In Us We Trust" by Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton   "Dirt clods at midnight, Vidalia weeps love..."
December 13, 2014:   "[she's been here before the back beyond]" by Betsy Andrews   "she's been here before the back beyond, this spider crab...."
December 12, 2014:   "Lifeboats" by Philip Dacey   "I'm visiting my son's 8 a.m. philosophy class..."
December 11, 2014:   "In/Ferno         Black/Out" by Cori A. Winrock   "Thick night caught like hair..."
December 10, 2014:   "In Which We Ask Exist" by Kristi Maxwell   "Light chews on the patio..."
December 9, 2014:   "[There is no ghost in this house.] " by Cynthia Marie Hoffman   "There is no ghost in this house...."
December 8, 2014:   "Rule 30" by Ryan Vine   "friend I hear there's a hole..."
December 7, 2014:   "Coping With Mental Illness" by Billi MacTighe   "I hugged a baby gator and the Natives..."
December 6, 2014:   "Following" by Allan Peterson   "We had been following spring rivers..."
December 5, 2014:   "American Pastoral" by James Gleason Bishop   "The mule deer flinches at the riverbank..."
December 4, 2014:   "The Projectionist" by James Cihlar   "Is it pathetic to see the insides outside?..."
December 3, 2014:   "Orange, Enormous" by Becca Rose Hall   "to be a lunatic, fellowing the moon..."
December 2, 2014:   "Juniper" by Debra Kang Dean   "Three days past the equinox..."
December 1, 2014:   "Mechanics of a Myth" by Mark J. Mitchell   "Sisyphus, aching under moonlight..."
November 30, 2014:   "Autobiographer" by Michael T. Young   "He wrote and lectured on his life..."
November 29, 2014:   "Inflatable Doll as Driving Companion" by Kim Bridgford   "No backseat driver, this one's in the front..."
November 28, 2014:   "The Bend and Rise of Streets" by Julie Brooks Barbour   "The white inside wing of a gull..."
November 27, 2014:   "Event" by Blas Falconer   "As a crowd gathered, I saw..."
November 26, 2014:   "Winter Wind" by Stephen Dobyns   "Whitecaps on the river-so fierce..."
November 25, 2014:   "Gerbils in Space" by Martha Silano   "and geckos. Fruit flies, kernels of com...."
November 23, 2014:   "Moon, Keep Setting Back Clocks" by Willis Barnstone   "Sometimes I feel, sometimes I don't, sometimes..."
November 22, 2014:   "In Our Place" by Anthony DiMatteo   "Patience, the heron knows I want..."
November 21, 2014:   "Dog Years" by Eleanor Lerman   "Look, I'm sure you knew how the story was..."
November 20, 2014:   "Animal Griefs" by Sally Rosen Kindred   "I am going to have to say no..."
November 19, 2014:   "Elegy in which a Bird Appears" by Jody Rambo   "I will make of my mind a scrape nest for your absence. Clear a swale..."
November 18, 2014:   "Open Season" by Becca Klaver   "I get all my news from the weather report or..."
November 17, 2014:   "I/They" by Sean Rys   "Nothing is more nomadic than names..."
November 16, 2014:   "Innominatus" by David Tomas Martinez   "Nothing is more nomadic than names..."
November 15, 2014:   "Tono City, Japan" by Kevin Simmonds   "Crows against snow..."
November 14, 2014:   "Silicon Valley" by David Linebarger   "Above us the promise..."
November 13, 2014:   "The Poet's Black Drum" by Carol Frost   "Come in the silent acting in a dream now wayfarer..."
November 12, 2014:   "Doris (Cardiology 14 E)" by Gretchen Primack   "My bones are in one hospital room..."
November 11, 2014:   "So We Began to Kick the Tires" by Maureen Thorson   "This unit not for sale. This bicycle built for two...."
November 10, 2014:   "The Man With a Missing Dog" by Charles Rafferty   "One evening, while searching for a dog..."
November 8, 2014:   "Assay" by Frank Wilson   "Having learned to observe..."
November 7, 2014:   "The Apartment Empties" by Tony Barnstone   "Sometimes the talk inside your head's so loud..."
November 6, 2014:   "Matins for the Last Frost" by Kimberly Johnson   "Patient in their dark hibernacle..."
November 5, 2014:   "At Last" by Gerald Stern   "Time was getting shorter every year..."
November 4, 2014:   "Tilting Toward Winter" by Okla Elliott   "The air is gray and quiet as the sea's..."
November 3, 2014:   "Northbound" by Edward Nobles   "A township has no zip code..."
November 2, 2014:   "How Not to Need Resurrection" by Michalle Gould   "Children like to play at death..."
November 1, 2014:   "We Can Be Anything We Couldn't Be" by Jenny Sadre-Orafai   "Here is the sunset every painter has painted..."
October 31, 2014:   "Aubade" by Sandra Lim   "From the last stars to sunrise the world is dark and enduring..."
October 30, 2014:   "Melt" by C. J. Sage   "To lose a certain figuration..."
October 29, 2014:   "Neverland" by Rebecca Hazelton   "It was enough to dream a small boat becalmed just in sight..."
October 28, 2014:   "Farthingale" by Kimberly Johnson   "In my pennyworth of windblown..."
October 27, 2014:   "Arroyo" by Kit Frick   "In this place we define things...."
October 26, 2014:   "The Silent Life" by Aaron Belz   "Horse lilies are the festive kind..."
October 25, 2014:   "Fable" by Sara Eliza Johnson   "In the forest, the owl releases a boneless cry...."
October 24, 2014:   "The Trouble with Lightning" by TJ Jarrett   "is it travels without resistance..."
October 23, 2014:   "Dear Empire," by Oliver de la Paz   "These are your jellyfish...."
October 22, 2014:   "i am looking for something to keep me warm in the winter / when the sky lets loose snow and all its other feelings" by Leia Penina Wilson   "i have found a city, a solid hydrodynamic sphere ..."
October 21, 2014:   "North of Stinson Beach" by Brian Simoneau   "A quartet of pelicans like a measure of music in flight..."
October 20, 2014:   "Morning Poem" by Matthew Burgess   "The ocelot's descent is so slow-mo I can see its..."
October 19, 2014:   "Finding the Porn Magazines" by Chelsea Woodard   "The way a twelve-year-old will hide her want..."
October 18, 2014:   "Grotesquerie" by RJ Gibson   "Mid-June: this sky a Schuyler sky..."
October 16, 2014:   "Present Perfect" by Laura Kasischke   "This has been..."
October 15, 2014:   "Midnight Loon" by Arthur Sze   "Burglars enter an apartment and ransack drawers..."
October 14, 2014:   "Entering Vacant Stagehands" by Stephen Massimilla   "Once she goes to sleep in my script, it is 2:00 A.M...."
October 13, 2014:   "Blue Whale" by Sarah Rose Nordgren   "Dark body dropping through fearsome space..."
October 12, 2014:   "Her Mistake" by Gregory Fraser   "When cinders showed up in her blouses..."
October 11, 2014:   "Little Schooner" by Joseph P. Wood   "Now I the rower gentle on the water. Now I the water gentle..."
October 10, 2014:   "Advance" by Lisa Williams   "In the small light of morning..."
October 9, 2014:   "We Real Nerds" by David Hernandez   "We real nerds. We..."
October 8, 2014:   "Glitch" by Claire Wahmanholm   "There's a burr buried in my brain's wool..."
October 7, 2014:   "The Tornado Wants a Companion" by Catherine Pierce   "No one wants the whirling all the time...."
October 6, 2014:   "My Life in Absentia" by Danniel Schoonebeek   "Some say the mother of gone to the dogs...."
October 5, 2014:   "Quantum Basketball" by Alfred Corn   "Here in Subatomic Stadium, playoff season's..."
October 4, 2014:   "First Acts" by Claudia Keelan   "The woman is alone on the stage..."
October 3, 2014:   "Oolite for the Ocean Wife" by Paula C. Lowe   "If you put up a seawall..."
October 2, 2014:   "In Which We Sense That We Are Not Alone" by Mary Biddinger   "Various miracles of the most outlandish sort..."
October 1, 2014:   "Amendment" by Brian Foley   "Our first time..."
September 30, 2014:   "Laika" by Kerrin McCadden   "How do you tell your children it was never easy...."
September 29, 2014:   "Three Minutes and Sixty Years" by Ralph Angel   "A mere / shrug of atmosphere..."
September 28, 2014:   "Knossos" by Sarah White   "If I would marry him..."
September 27, 2014:   "Pangaea" by Felicia Mitchell   "You can see us here, drifters..."
September 26, 2014:   "'How can we live in this fear?'" by Lex Runciman   "Clouds may drift from the west...."
September 25, 2014:   "Light's Effect on the Body" by Janée J. Baugher   "You're not alone...."
September 24, 2014:   "Winter Feeding" by Anna Ross   "Our fishing-turned-tour boat stalls..."
September 23, 2014:   "Swarm" by R. A. Villanueva   "We were well down the ventral axis..."
September 22, 2014:   "Día de los Muertos" by Brenda Sieczkowski   "Overnight, the jack-o-lanterns have deflated: wrinkles, fallen gums...."
September 21, 2014:   "The Window" by David St. John   "You could be anywhere, almost anywhere at all..."
September 20, 2014:   "Once Upon a Time I Was" by Elisabeth Workman   "meow meow every year..."
September 19, 2014:   "Ode to Autumn" by Jennifer Michael Hecht   "You are overbrimming the hive's clammy cells...."
September 18, 2014:   "That Light" by Paul Hostovsky   "Everything is interesting..."
September 17, 2014:   "Magician's Assistant Sawed in Two" by Jen McClanaghan   "From the fountain of drool that is dog..."
September 16, 2014:   "Lucky" by Stefanie Wortman   "The staggered line of teeth pushing back toward..."
September 15, 2014:   "Blink" by Sid Miller   "If a person lives..."
September 14, 2014:   "Dancing in Tennessee" by Wesley McNair   "How was he to know, when his father left them..."
September 13, 2014:   "Pelicans in December" by J. Allyn Rosser   "One can't help admiring..."
September 12, 2014:   "Inquiline" by Lee Ann Roripaugh   "Like this: Timultuous summer mating. Sizzle of sex-intoxicated..."
September 11, 2014:   "God" by Dan Albergotti   "Somewhere beneath 125th Street there's a small machine..."
September 10, 2014:   "Sol in Leo" by Sam Ross   "Shooting a .22 is perversely..."
September 9, 2014:   "Exodus" by Robert Whitehead   "When you talk about the sea you call it a cradle..."
September 8, 2014:   "Spontaneous Human Combustion" by Erica Wright   "You can't mask the scent of sulfur..."
September 7, 2014:   "Ear to the Wake" by Paul Pines   "we unweave what..."
September 6, 2014:   "Stone Work" by Andrea Scarpino   "Here is the split, dark crop..."
September 5, 2014:   "Poem Beginning with a Line from Eugenio Montale" by Brandon Amico   "Upon me, upon you, and over the lemons..."
September 4, 2014:   "Our Orcas Hours" by James Bertolino   "The woman I love reaches...."
September 3, 2014:   "Manes Gossiping, Overheard" by David Koehn   "I can never remember when any of them are...."
September 2, 2014:   "When Linear" by Lizzie Harris   "Somewhere in the future..."
August 31, 2014:   "Wild Eye" by Karina Borowicz   "All day the dream will linger..."
August 30, 2014:   "Being the Boy" by Gina Keicher   "The parked mailman truck teaches patience. People with time..."
August 29, 2014:   "Secured Cushions, Beer and Olives" by Lisa C. Krueger   "The boat of revelation has whiteness and chrome..."
August 28, 2014:   "The Abyssal Plain" by Bruce Bond   "Here beneath the last revenant of light..."
August 27, 2014:   "Against Rapture" by Frannie Lindsay   "Gradually things began to appear in the house..."
August 26, 2014:   "Sincerely, the Sky" by David Hernandez   "Yes, I see you down there..."
August 25, 2014:   "Seen from Above" by Jennifer K. Sweeney   "Steady the freight trains..."
August 24, 2014:   "Girl Show" by Kristy Bowen   "I may speak like a woman, but my throat..."
August 23, 2014:   "The Measured Breathing" by Michael Hettich   "And so I understand, at least for a moment..."
August 22, 2014:   "The Stag at Eve" by Lesley Jenike   "In my cries I don't cease (some dumb bird)..."
August 21, 2014:   "Initiation #5: Lorca" by Kara Candito   "He is standing at the foot of my bed..."
August 20, 2014:   "Tame Me" by Ralph Angel   "But how to get through to a mind..."
August 19, 2014:   "Swift Trucks" by Erika Meitner   "This place has views..."
August 18, 2014:   "Body and Soul" by B. H. Fairchild   "Half-numb, guzzling bourbon and Coke from coffee mugs..."
August 17, 2014:   "Summer School" by Lianne Spidel   "Because I needed to know for a poem..."
August 16, 2014:   "Birder's Last Blessing" by John Smith   "Leave the binoculars behind...."
August 15, 2014:   "Light" by Dennis Finnell   "It's beyond me, the pinhole in Hubble's eye tomorrow as predicted..."
August 14, 2014:   "Postcard to My Third Crush Today" by Sean Hill   "I've been on the move; the bottoms..."
August 13, 2014:   "Direction" by Glenn Shaheen   "There is play between us there is a play..."
August 12, 2014:   "Temple Kiss" by Lisa Russ Spaar   "Obituarial, novelty's wattage..."
August 11, 2014:   "Rodin, 'The Walking Man'" by Peter Cooley   "But when the body stands here, one foot back..."
August 10, 2014:   "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker   "First they wake up on the day they're going to die..."
August 9, 2014:   "Watch" by Mike White   "Dog roped to a tree..."
August 8, 2014:   "The Gesture" by Shann Ray   "On the surface..."
August 7, 2014:   "Bear Fight" by Jeff Friedman   "When Liza fell in with the bear, I was more than..."
August 6, 2014:   "Migration" by Jasmine V. Bailey   "Summer leaves for South America..."
August 5, 2014:   "Animal Deaths" by Gregory Djanikian   "Oh, it's stupid, I know, to be..."
August 4, 2014:   "Gravid" by Gillian Kiley   "To you, too, hello; I am a flop..."
August 3, 2014:   "Aubade" by David Mura   "A wound is a blossom..."
August 2, 2014:   "The Archangel in a City of Men" by Phebe Davidson   "may rise at 2 or 3 a.m. 'an insomniac's insomniac'..."
August 1, 2014:   "Monologue During A Blackout" by Kara Candito   "What about zebra?'suppose..."
July 31, 2014:   "The boys who learned to fuck from porn movies versus the boys who learned to fuck from their fathers" by Maggie Glover   "One side offered, believe or not: daisies...."
July 30, 2014:   "Inundation" by Katherine Lucas Anderson   "To your horror is overstating it...."
July 29, 2014:   "The Giraffe 3" by Jacques Rebotier   "Coming upon a pond, it wants to drink...."
July 28, 2014:   "Washing My Face" by Peter Cooley   "Rising to face him, head-on, man-to-man..."
July 27, 2014:   "Emptying Out" by Robin Chapman   "Let rue be like the river that pours through..."
July 26, 2014:   "Minotaur" by Peter Kline   "You wound a ball of twine around my eyes..."
July 25, 2014:   "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson   "'We're off to see the wizard!" my father..."
July 24, 2014:   "In These Woods" by Melanie McCabe   "Pretty viper, once coiled..."
July 23, 2014:   "Death among the Thistles" by JoAnn Balingit   "Out here in this leggy light..."
July 22, 2014:   "On Seeing Psycho in a Concert Hall" by Anne Harding Woodworth   "The orchestra begins to play...."
July 21, 2014:   "Sword Lily" by Amy Glynn Greacen   "We come to love our difficulties..."
July 19, 2014:   "Variations" by Michael Broder   "A few words go a long way between us..."
July 18, 2014:   "When I Was Straight" by Julie Marie Wade   "I did not love women as I do now...."
July 17, 2014:   "Housing" by David Wagoner   "Some don't have it and need it badly..."
July 16, 2014:   "Poem for Jack Spicer" by Matthew Zapruder   "It's the start of baseball season..."
July 15, 2014:   "Seasonal Stream" by Gigi Marks   "I am too sick this year to bpj682..."
July 14, 2014:   "Foresight" by Melanie McCabe   "I know precisely what to do to avert disaster..."
July 13, 2014:   "Daredevil" by Melissa Balmain   "When it came to wild stunts, he was second to none..."
July 12, 2014:   "On Our New House" by Julie Danho   "Statistics say I won't die here..."
July 11, 2014:   "Tinguage" by Natasha Sajé   "What you do to me. With me. What I've..."
July 10, 2014:   "I Stayed Up Late Watching Airplanes" by Michael Teig   "roll the horizon. And thought of you..."
July 9, 2014:   "Walking with Eliza" by Jeffrey Harrison   "Late morning, mid-October, Eliza and I..."
July 8, 2014:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" by Christopher Citro   "It's how you know I love you..."
July 7, 2014:   "Backward-Spreading Brightness" by Christopher Kondrich   "Clear enough to see you christen or condemn another..."
July 6, 2014:   "Magnificat" by Michael Gessner   "The greatest statement ever made..."
July 5, 2014:   "Abraham's Journey" by Richard Jackson   "Sorrow walked in my clothes before I did. Flocks..."
July 4, 2014:   "Eight Buffalo" by Cecilia Llompart   "An obstinacy of buffalo..."
July 3, 2014:   "Goldfinch" by Betsy Sholl   "The way you sit at the feeder, your head cocked..."
July 2, 2014:   "Gooseberry" by Samuel Green   "At night, when we sleep..."
July 1, 2014:   "Give-Us-This-Day Man" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "Every morning breakfast became..."
June 30, 2014:   "Swan Aubade" by Abigail Cloud   "At dawn the feathers shriek..."
June 29, 2014:   "The Navigational Fix" by Holly J. Hughes   "For a good fix, we need two lines, 45 degrees..."
June 28, 2014:   "something to look forward to" by Richard Vargas   "i'm visiting the local..."
June 27, 2014:   "Self-Portrait as Beast" by Frances Justine Post   "I put on my face. This one is wolfish..."
June 26, 2014:   "Surveillance meteor" by Alexandria Peary   "The surveillance meteor hangs over a stone wall..."
June 25, 2014:   "Narrative" by Jenny Molberg   "Because there is no principle of love..."
June 24, 2014:   "A mother poem" by Tom Useted   "My mother is a bag of flour...."
June 23, 2014:   "What Holds Us" by Martin Balgach   "This morning I listened to the first birds of spring...."
June 22, 2014:   "3 am" by Nicki Griffin   "Winter and I am awake again..."
June 21, 2014:   "There is a Stir, Always" by Catherine Graham   "If I hold onto this body the snow will grow inside me..."
June 20, 2014:   "Rumination with Night Sky and Cotton" by Jeff Gundy   "What you can't see may not matter. What you can barely see, those..."
June 19, 2014:   "The Shape of It" by Wendy Xu   "I wake up and inherit the world..."
June 18, 2014:   "Conjugating" by Kimberly Grey   " If lovers are..."
June 17, 2014:   "when you land on Madison Ave." by Ben Pelhan   "it starts with babies...."
June 16, 2014:   "In the Century of Mandatory Crying" by Rochelle Hurt   "it was decreed that the solution..."
June 15, 2014:   "New Orleans, a Neighborhood Nation" by Mona Lisa Saloy   "Possums sleep, middle of the road sometimes..."
June 14, 2014:   "Canoeing the Lagoon" by John Repp   "The morning heat..."
June 13, 2014:   "Osip" by Alan Jude Moore   "It's hard to comprehend..."
June 12, 2014:   "Margin of Silence" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "you talk about the margin of silence..."
June 11, 2014:   "A No Good Thunderstorm" by Alexis Pope   "Dear Hurricane, my name is gentle..."
June 10, 2014:   "Bundle, Then Swift the New Year" by Ruth Williams   "Where they pushed..."
June 9, 2014:   "Pulling the Arrow Out" by Carl Phillips   "Mumbling something about how..."
June 8, 2014:   "God is a Capitalist" by Kendra DeColo   "I, too, want honesty in exchange for my good money, a warm body..."
June 7, 2014:   "Red Tractor" by Terri Kirby Erickson   "Just before you reach the Triple B Country..."
June 6, 2014:   "September" by Lorraine Doran   "For once clouds come to mark the day and one boy..."
June 5, 2014:   "My Mother's Will Emailed in PDF" by Jodie Hollander   "This is the order in which she loved..."
June 4, 2014:   "Shadowboxing Andy Warhol" by Kelli Russell Agodon   "Andy Warhol speaks to me in voodoo..."
June 3, 2014:   "Exodus" by Peg Bresnahan   "The lake rose to record highs...."
June 2, 2014:   "Mayflower" by Jake Adam York   "Before the bird's song..."
June 1, 2014:   "Dog in the Road" by Knute Skinner   "The dog lies in the middle of the road..."
May 30, 2014:   "Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito" by Tarfia Faizullah   "Let me break..."
May 29, 2014:   "Manhole" by Sally Wen Mao   "The nadirs of the world..."
May 28, 2014:   "Come Back" by Chloe Honum   "I can't see all of any horse at once...."
May 27, 2014:   "Stray Boat in January" by Jacqueline Marcus   "Walked out into the cold early rain as though I were walking out of my life..."
May 25, 2014:   "Schooled In the Open Sea" by Conrad Hilberry   "The albacore, bonita, mackerel..."
May 24, 2014:   "AND A RAIN" by Joan Houlihan   "AND A RAIN let down from sky..."
May 23, 2014:   "King Country Metro" by Geffrey Davis   "In Seattle, in 1982, my mother beholds this man..."
May 22, 2014:   "How to Go Extinct" by Caroline Manring   "A bird's mouth is its gape...."
May 21, 2014:   "Give It Up" by Jeff Friedman   "Give up the dragons tattooed on your arms..."
May 20, 2014:   "The Last Crusade" by Chad Davidson   "I was It, the unnamed, the great criminal..."
May 19, 2014:   "To the Reader" by Mark Svenvold   "When I rose from all of this, briefly, that morning..."
May 18, 2014:   "Waiting to Be Shot in the Back" by Sean Thomas Dougherty   "Okay stranger, plug a dollar..."
May 17, 2014:   "Dog Person" by Robin Becker   "Like burdocks, loyalty attaches to her...."
May 16, 2014:   "The Untied States of America" by Martha Silano   "America, with your water-tower towns, your irrigation sprinklers..."
May 15, 2014:   "How Move the Boulder" by Marc McKee   "Yes! may be the best way to start..."
May 14, 2014:   "Cold Comfort in October" by Keetje Kuipers   "All those born from love-lest marriages..."
May 13, 2014:   "Time to Kill" by Charlie Hughes   "Evenings I sit beneath the maple trees..."
May 12, 2014:   "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok   "So much sawdust on my glasses, I stare at the wind..."
May 11, 2014:   "This is Not a Prayer" by Christine Beck   "This is Not a Prayer of Thanks...."
May 10, 2014:   "[For the animal is sleepy-time...]" by Joshua Poteat   "For the animal is sleepy-time, is bye-bye, is numb-knees, is jewel..."
May 9, 2014:   "Ring" by Suzanne Cleary   "Rose gold engraved with a grain of wheat..."
May 8, 2014:   "44306" by Meg Johnson   "Let's get this ménage a trois started...."
May 7, 2014:   "Repent" by Gary L. McDowell   "because nature is a haunted house..."
May 6, 2014:   "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok   "A man was measured by how well he whistled..."
May 4, 2014:   "Affirmative Action Babies" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson   "Well, isn't this the world..."
May 3, 2014:   "Sunglesses" by James Gendron   "They fear dying and dying fears them..."
May 2, 2014:   "Telomere" by Judson Evans   "We die because our intentions can't touch..."
May 1, 2014:   "The Yellow Thing" by Kirsten Kaschock   "She moves through her..."
April 29, 2014:   "[While I—Breathless...]" by Rebecca Aronson   "While I—Breathless..."
April 28, 2014:   "Whatever Monster" by Ash Bowen   "I'm sad for what our bodies never made..."
April 27, 2014:   "Palimpsest" by Jason Shulman   "The rock contains..."
April 26, 2014:   "Letter to P on Perfumed Paper" by Priscilla Frake   "I'm pollen and itch..."
April 25, 2014:   "Awake As You Sleep" by Laura Grace Weldon   "Lying together, having made..."
April 24, 2014:   "The Empire of Absinthe" by Bill Rasmovicz   "All the buildings were smoke-bearded and swayed..."
April 23, 2014:   "I'm Kind of a Whore, But She's, Like, Way a Whore" by David Kirby   "this is the kind of thing that makes me happy...."
April 22, 2014:   "The River of Ugly Fishes" by Clayton Adam Clark   "Blame it on the limestone—the sinkholes..."
April 21, 2014:   "As a Spleen" by Claire Sylvester Smith   "So much must go right in order for us to drive..."
April 20, 2014:   "Apple" by Nick McRae   "A man finds an apple in an empty field..."
April 19, 2014:   "If, Sky" by Lauren K. Alleyne   "Wish for a working machine..."
April 18, 2014:   "Reception" by Jason Tandon   "The moon like a sickle's blade..."
April 17, 2014:   "Offering" by Weston Cutter   "The stupid mercy of flesh, how softly the dog..."
April 16, 2014:   "Bumper crop" by Bob Hicok   "This child had such an easygoingmanner..."
April 15, 2014:   "Musial" by George Bilgere   "My father once sold a Chevy..."
April 14, 2014:   "America Mix-Tape, Track 60" by Jason Myers   "Some day I'll die in St. Augustine..."
April 13, 2014:   "Tuned In Late One Night" by William Stafford   "Listen-this is a faint station..."
April 12, 2014:   "Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains" by Alicia Suskin Ostriker   "When they see me said the old woman..."
April 11, 2014:   "After Twelve Months, Someone Tells Me It's Time to Join the Living" by Teresa Leo   "And I have, or will, I'm not sure which..."
April 10, 2014:   "Modigliani's Cellist" by Barbara Siegel Carlson   "He plays to the violet walls..."
April 9, 2014:   "Season of Burning Leaves" by Raphael Dagold   "He is looking for something perfect..."
April 8, 2014:   "Dear Winged" by Erin Murphy   "The opposite of water..."
April 7, 2014:   "Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine" by Barbara Hamby   "So many birds are flying above my house it must mean..."
April 6, 2014:   "Revival" by Juditha Dowd   "Lately it seems that you and I..."
April 5, 2014:   "Tangiers, 1968" by Zara Raab   "Because in the Souk Dakhli, a woman..."
April 4, 2014:   "Extras" by U.A. Fanthorpe   "Two of them, always...."
April 3, 2014:   "As Seen From Above" by Cynthia Atkins   "While your mind is singing..."
April 2, 2014:   "The Age of Increment" by Anna Maria Hong   "Liberticide optimized in an age..."
April 1, 2014:   "Pompey, 67 BC" by Sally Wen Mao   "It was swarm season—of honey and carnage..."
March 31, 2014:   "Orison" by Betsy Sholl   "Let me give back to God..."
March 30, 2014:   "[Two centuries to keep a maple]" by Jody Bolz   "Two centuries to keep a maple..."
March 29, 2014:   "For Weather" by Matthew Gavin Frank   "The diner is closed today..."
March 28, 2014:   "The Last Meeting, along the Path to Arthur's Grave" by Shelley Puhak   "Here — grass matted means..."
March 27, 2014:   "Slow News" by John Estes   "These are momentary sensations, the wild, the windswept...."
March 26, 2014:   "Another Spring" by Peter Everwine   "Another spring...."
March 25, 2014:   "Slice of Moon" by Kim Dower   "There's a slice of moon..."
March 24, 2014:   "Mother Goose Self-Help" by K. A. Hays   "Climb a spout. Run a clock...."
March 23, 2014:   "Time Traveler" by Rebecca Lehmann   "In the cavern I hung ropes..."
March 22, 2014:   "Polycarp" by Matthew Minicucci   "Known for who is known...."
March 21, 2014:   "A Bewilderment" by Bianca Stone   "I have lost all luscious dreams..."
March 20, 2014:   "Choose your poison" by Stacy Kidd   "Choose your Texas, your bataille & your Baton Rouge...."
March 19, 2014:   "Horse" by Danielle Pafunda   "The womb, a tick tock, a shrapnel-bearing croc...."
March 18, 2014:   "Learning to Weather" by Marjorie Maddox   "The day after the geese leave..."
March 17, 2014:   "Radical Lads, Blisters & Glad Summers" by Brenda Hillman   "Light the lamps for a government..."
March 16, 2014:   "Scarlatti Sonata Testament" by Pattiann Rogers   "Listen . . . all white foxes, all white owls, all snowy..."
March 15, 2014:   "Scotch Tape World" by Tom C. Hunley   "Taping my thigh and calf together..."
March 14, 2014:   "Murmuration" by Lisa Ampleman   "A row of resting birds makes visible a distant power line..."
March 13, 2014:   "In a Landscape: LIV" by John Gallaher   "Where's the line between what constitutes repetition..."
March 12, 2014:   "Congenital" by Amy McCann   "Inside every heart..."
March 11, 2014:   "Tagebücher" by Cynthia Cruz   "Decadent, glass cells..."
March 10, 2014:   "January" by DJ Dolack   "The pistol-clean mouth..."
March 9, 2014:   "Part & Parcel" by Heidi Czerwiec   "It was all a part of the posing, part..."
March 8, 2014:   "Cities in the Sky" by Mary Jo Salter   "The buildings you drew were stooped..."
March 7, 2014:   "Pages of Winter" by Anzhelina Polonskaya   "Take a look, the birds are dancing..."
March 6, 2014:   "Epithalamium" by Diane Schenker   "Heap round the inner chamber with sweet-..."
March 5, 2014:   "In the Dumps" by Heather Christle   "Just because we've broken my head..."
March 4, 2014:   "Leaving Labor and Delivery" by Erin Rodoni   "The light is relentless. There are no lampshades here...."
March 3, 2014:   "Proof" by Ashley Seitz Kramer   "I have no proof of my own fear..."
March 2, 2014:   "If you Hire a Poet to Draw a Map" by David Shumate   "He will take liberties with the land. He'll unwind rivers that..."
March 1, 2014:   "The Wrong Ones" by James Tolan   "There are those who make us sad..."
February 28, 2014:   "Interrogating Water" by Philip Fried   "Imagine you are interrogating water..."
February 27, 2014:   "When We Were Engaged" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan   "We go to Coney Island. You talk me into riding..."
February 26, 2014:   "Straight Razor" by Randall Mann   "He slid the stiff blade up to my ear..."
February 25, 2014:   "Chickfire" by Sara Tracey   "On our tongues, this language..."
February 24, 2014:   "Autumnal" by John A. Nieves   "October happens this way..."
February 23, 2014:   "New Shoes" by Renato Rosaldo   "In Mungayang the day is hot..."
February 22, 2014:   "Aubade" by Patty Dickson Pieczka   "The dream melts slowly..."
February 21, 2014:   "Muskrat" by Michael David Madonick   "We cannot reconcile ourselves, the incongruities..."
February 20, 2014:   "All the Unreal Animals" by Michael Tyrell   "Larries emerge in October, annuals..."
February 19, 2014:   "Childhood Stories" by Matthew Rohrer   "They learned to turn off the gravity in an auditorium..."
February 18, 2014:   "Recap and Apology" by Rob Talbert   "I remember darkness inside the car..."
February 17, 2014:   "The Fox Den" by Shelley Whitaker   "As a kid on Spring evenings..."
February 16, 2014:   "To Scale" by Nancy Kassell   "Protective spirits in profile are aligned on a frieze...."
February 15, 2014:   "Uncle Kenny" by Dan Rifenburgh   "GhostIy and unknown by me..."
February 14, 2014:   "Compass" by Luc Phinney   "One morning at the lake's edge..."
February 13, 2014:   "Era for Rebpj682y" by Lo Kwa Mei-en   "If a matter of choice then my choir, surely. If voices..."
February 12, 2014:   "Sleeping Women in Movies" by Janet McCann   "She is sprawled arms akimbo..."
February 11, 2014:   "How to Make Sure the Things You Love Never Die" by Christopher Todd Matthews   "Towns like this, it's forest or yard, nothing between..."
February 10, 2014:   "The Mayor's Guide to Reelection" by Jeffrey Morgan   "Notice how reflections stutter along a bank of windows..."
February 8, 2014:   "Her Winter House" by Susan Elbe   "It's always winter when I come, curbs drifted in..."
February 7, 2014:   "Calling the Moon Closer" by Howard Schwartz   "All at once..."
February 6, 2014:   "Damaged Enough" by Rustin Larson   "I still my heart and I can hear you..."
February 5, 2014:   "There Were Only Dandelions" by Laura McCullough   "And the boy...."
February 4, 2014:   "The Foxes" by Claire Millikin   "Step by step, door by door, she opened the house..."
February 3, 2014:   "The Survey" by Joshua Beckman   "Rent adverse crooked cold as dairied catacombs..."
February 2, 2014:   "Long Trail" by Stephen Scaer   "You can spot the better hikers by..."
February 1, 2014:   "It Cannot Be Believed" by Max Winter   "The fire hydrant painted white with black spots like a Dalmatian thinks..."
January 31, 2014:   "To Sea" by Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman   "I am a brilliant animal..."
January 30, 2014:   "Little, Small, Wee Bear" by Ron Koertge   "The rangers may have to shoot the grizzly..."
January 29, 2014:   "We Are At War" by David Ray Vance   "with prepositions, all..."
January 28, 2014:   "Personal Ruin" by Claire Wahmanholm   "Dear blahs..."
January 27, 2014:   "Smartmouth and The Mysteries" by James Malone Smith   "Year upon year I know less and less..."
January 26, 2014:   "My Kind of Love Poem" by Rafael Campo   "Unluckily, the day begins: a bomb..."
January 25, 2014:   "The Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Carol Light   "This guy's lost his head but, Jesus..."
January 24, 2014:   "Dear—" by Trey Moody   "I said Ghost because I couldn't..."
January 23, 2014:   "Atmosphere" by Maxine Chernoff   "Rain pummels windows, words unshake trees...."
January 22, 2014:   "The Violins" by Hilary Sideris   "Grandad Gus wrapped..."
January 21, 2014:   "That Which There Are No Words For" by Jennifer Lighty   "All afternoon on the oyster farm..."
January 20, 2014:   "Self-Portrait with Gunshot Vernacular" by Michael Mlekoday   "All summer was one wet weapon..."
January 19, 2014:   "When everything around me tremors" by Barbara Ellen Sorensen   "When everything around me tremors..."
January 18, 2014:   "'wait for Orion's sword to fall, to cut'" by Dennis Etzel, Jr.   "wait for Orion's sword to fall, to cut..."
January 17, 2014:   "Étude" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "even now as you..."
January 16, 2014:   "Homeschooled" by Marianne Kunkel   "The Nazis? Learned of them in comic books...."
January 15, 2014:   "Cheek Against Soft Pumpkin Fur" by Francesca Chabrier   "I am me, but I am a cow...."
January 14, 2014:   "Now You See It Now You Don't" by Valerie Bandura   "The first time my sister lost it..."
January 13, 2014:   "Toof Toof: the Arc" by Tomaz Salamun   "Hungry bird from Samarkand..."
January 12, 2014:   "Winter Litany" by Robin Davidson   "I stand on Wawel Hill..."
January 11, 2014:   "Acre" by Lisa Ortiz   "If we had one, I said, we could grow lettuce and peas..."
January 9, 2014:   "Manifesto" by C. J. Sage   "Before I'd fallen through..."
January 7, 2014:   "Three Nonsense Poems" by Christopher Merrill   "How much mush is too much mush..."
January 6, 2014:   "Carrier (standing woman carrying wolf)" by Éireann Lorsung   "She was preaching no sermon except..."
January 5, 2014:   "Slight Pause" by Joy Katz   "We looked at each other, then at the plate of tomatoes..."
January 4, 2014:   "Mysteries of Light" by Joan Naviyuk Kane   "Loosen the ropes...."
January 3, 2014:   "Dangerous to Know" by Patricia Brody   "I've been chilling with these dead people..."
January 2, 2014:   "Happy Holidays!" by Sherman Alexie   "Indians love fireworks...."
January 1, 2014:   "Tired Blood" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson   "Early stage, the old folks would have noticed..."
December 31, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow   "Dark charms the anchor in its house..."
December 30, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Catch & Release" by William D. Waltz   "Dear Reluctant Sportsman..."
December 29, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Blanks" by Kimberly Johnson   "The sun rolls up like jackpot..."
December 28, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Body" by James Hoch   "I hang it here, in the entry..."
December 27, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Little Muchness" by Mary Ann Samyn   "Some shouting and the tree came down branch by branch..."
December 26, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Turn and Return" by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft   "Listen: I am taking myself..."
December 25, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Practice Test" by Anne Cecelia Holmes   "I almost say formula..."
December 24, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Crane" by David Yezzi   "Paper creased is..."
December 23, 2013 (A 2013 Favorite):   "Battering Robin Syndrome" by Tina Kelley   "He has split his beak on my view...."
December 22, 2013:   "Ruins" by Anne Love Woodhull   "The gods in pieces around me, and me..."
December 21, 2013:   "New River Breakdown" by Terry L. Kennedy   "Just past June and our old dog is swimming the slow summer..."
December 20, 2013:   "Bruxism" by Steven Reese   "While we're asleep, the brain tends..."
December 19, 2013:   "Wishbone" by Jennifer Maier   "Tonight across America, in the swank salons..."
December 18, 2013:   "The Strange House of the Past" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan   "Moving through the strange house..."
December 17, 2013:   "Drinking with Mephistopheles" by TJ Jarrett   "When the mountains said come, he left...."
December 16, 2013:   "Tense" by Cullen Bailey Burns   "Am smitten, I said, and the grass lay still..."
December 15, 2013:   "The Architecture of Sunlight" by A. E. Stringer   "Are these the fabled 'Imagine the sandstone sun just'..."
December 14, 2013:   "Sawhorses" by Greg Williamson   "Are these the fabled "horses of the Sun"..."
December 13, 2013:   "Industrial Photos" by Deborah Bernhardt   "Texture is composed peaks arose. Outside itself..."
December 12, 2013:   "She Had Unexplained Fevers" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   "some nights she just wasn't..."
December 11, 2013:   "Beneath the Altar" by Katie Peterson   "Beneath Zeus' altar..."
December 10, 2013:   "Fifty-Fifty Ball" by Jeffrey McDaniel   "Yesterday, I was cruising along, behind the wheel..."
December 9, 2013:   "Travel Plaza" by Heather Christle   "The day not redolent..."
December 8, 2013:   "Because We've Landed on the Moon but Nobody Wants to Live There" by Amy Dryansky   "Someone's got to stand at the door waving..."
December 7, 2013:   "A Good Sky" by James Ragan   "I show you a good sky...."
December 6, 2013:   "System with Holiday Destiny" by Terence Winch   "You have to constantly examine yourself...."
December 5, 2013:   "Shame" by Bruce Bond   "When a boy passes out drunk at a party..."
December 4, 2013:   "In a Landscape: XXXIV" by John Gallaher   "If things contain their opposites, why bother? That suffices, I guess..."
December 3, 2013:   "December" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz   "When my body had forgotten its purpose..."
December 2, 2013:   "Dark Spots" by Angie Estes   "In the late nineteenth century, some photographers..."
December 1, 2013:   "Transcendence" by John Randolph Carter   "Prolific ellipse manufacturers..."
November 30, 2013:   "Squirrels Worshipping Crows" by Michael Heffernan   "When we are dead..."
November 29, 2013:   "Still Life with Body as Apocalypse" by Eleni Sikelianos   "We each drew a picture of the dead man..."
November 28, 2013:   "Turn and Return" by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft   "Listen: I am taking myself..."
November 27, 2013:   "The Mist Lifts" by Chris Andrews   "The fickle insolidity of winter..."
November 26, 2013:   "The Logic of a Lesser Loved Science" by Carolyn Moore   "can give us our bearings where we're lost...."
November 25, 2013:   "Confession" by Carrie Shipers   "I stopped calling for no reason because..."
November 24, 2013:   "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella   "Rabbits bolt back..."
November 23, 2013:   "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord   "The days are my consolation...."
November 22, 2013:   "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer   "How at the VFW bar, he rolled up his sleeves...."
November 21, 2013:   "Hurricane Birds" by dawn lonsinger   "In the eye of the storm we came..."
November 20, 2013:   "Devil's Aspect" by Charlie Clark   "Hard to follow; what with the smoke..."
November 19, 2013:   "Nocturne" by Max Somers   "I feel the necessity to say please, quiet...."
November 18, 2013:   "A Taste, With Explosions of Woody and Floral Undertones" by Katie Jean Shinkle   "I'm finding it harder to understand July..."
November 17, 2013:   "One Hundredth Anniversary Edition of 'Birches'" by Richard Cecil   "Ice shouldn't look so pretty hung from trees..."
November 16, 2013:   "Bon Fire" by Chris Mattingly   "Out back of the house Mom and I are feeding a fire..."
November 15, 2013:   "Self Portrait: Swimming in Monkeys" by Michael Teig   "A quiver of pines. A parcel of monkeys...."
November 14, 2013:   "Chiller" by Maryann Corbett   "Seven a.m. The hunter's moon..."
November 13, 2013:   "Almanac" by Janet Jennings   "Mid February, the hour..."
November 12, 2013:   Two Poems by Anthony Frame   "If truth really is relative, then power..."
November 11, 2013:   "A Theater Near You" by Dan Albergotti   "They say the end is coming, coming soon...."
November 10, 2013:   "Lullaby with Bourbon" by George David Clark   "Behind you lie a hundred yards of satin..."
November 9, 2013:   "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn   "Jetlagged, we'd napped through the sirens'..."
November 8, 2013:   "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley   "He still remembers how to move..."
November 7, 2013:   "Death Valley" by Billy Collins   "O, little spheres of the eyes..."
November 6, 2013:   "Men on Strike" by Marcela Sulak   "Men on parade. Men..."
November 5, 2013:   "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift   "The Paint nickered, trotted toward us, lowered..."
November 4, 2013:   "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens   "I opened a letter and out came my bachelor's degree/..."
November 3, 2013:   "Curb Your God" by Hannah Stephenson   "Gravitate to the shore, to the edges..."
November 2, 2013:   "Slave to the Virgin" by Tanya Olson   "Matt Talbot walked Dublin..."
November 1, 2013:   "Memorial" by Sebastian Agudelo   "A damp season, they'll seem like fungal spread..."
October 31, 2013:   "They Don't Sing" by Devon Miller-Duggan   "All of those original doves..."
October 30, 2013:   "And he makes his hand into a soft gun" by Peter Jay Shippy   "I met you on a red day, a day that grew fins..."
October 29, 2013:   "Practice by Fire & Doubt" by Julia Cohen   "Chanting novices like, where's my..."
October 28, 2013:   "I dream the sick roses sitting up in their blood at your feet" by Corey Zeller   "Growing like the sun, the real sun, pulling itself out of the rusted..."
October 27, 2013:   "Lies We Tell in Winter" by Tasha Cotter   "That winter there was a density to the snow. I told you stories..."
October 26, 2013:   Two Poems by Abraham Smith   "what kept me..."
October 25, 2013:   "from A Whirligig Called America" by Patrick Culliton   "What's the use in a nest, love..."
October 24, 2013:   "contemplation within the framework of the dream" by Renée Ashley   "Consider the custom of likeness or unlikeness fit as the..."
October 23, 2013:   "Field Work" by Julia Shipley   "He shows me where to enter the field..."
October 22, 2013:   "The Promise We Made to the Earthquake" by Alexandra Oliver   "I'm going to turn my back on death, forsaking..."
October 21, 2013:   "Neolithic Revolution" by Ali Shapiro   "I'm tired of the way love turns us into animals...."
October 20, 2013:   "Equation for Cresting" by Christopher Bolin   "This is the world's reenactment of today..."
October 19, 2013:   "Elegy" by Miriam Bird Greenberg   "Early on in the city..."
October 18, 2013:   "The Ventriloquist's Heart" by Lisa Allen Ortiz   "At dinner I lean in close...."
October 17, 2013:   "Self-Portrait with Quarry" by Elisabeth Murawski   "In a nightmare once, I saw you..."
October 16, 2013:   "The Belt" by Noah Kucij   "Eleventh hour on some clocks, though..."
October 15, 2013:   "Tantrum" by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft   "A word to the wise: do not attempt..."
October 14, 2013:   "Push" by Kate Partridge   "When I was young..."
October 13, 2013:   "If you got free by any strange behavior" by Paul Bone   "If you got free by any strange behavior..."
October 12, 2013:   "Every Day of the Dead" by Ron Houchin   "An old church house abandoned long enough..."
October 11, 2013:   "Ghost Sonnet" by Emilia Phillips   "Ask the water to know my ankles..."
October 10, 2013:   "What the Phoenix Sings to the Ashes" by Lois Marie Harrod   "Let me tell you..."
October 9, 2013:   "The Pond" by Caitlin Bailey   "Small places burst with love for you. My hand is an oar...."
October 8, 2013:   "Pleasure Milker" by Katy Didden   "You're the kind who stands still..."
October 7, 2013:   "The Dead" by Fleda Brown   "The dead are disorderly. If they rot, worms..."
October 6, 2013:   "Passing the Wildfire" by Christine Potter   "After driving past the hundred hills..."
October 5, 2013:   "Circus Maximus" by David Starkey   "Nothing now but grass..."
October 4, 2013:   "[For the sake of this mathematical hypothetical]" by Kyle McCord   "For the sake of this..."
October 3, 2013:   "Blues" by Alice Bolin   "A train fills our horizon, boxcars fan out..."
October 2, 2013:   "Do Not Drive Into Smoke (The Behavioralistic Half-Century)" by Katy Chrisler   "The sun is not a sack of guts...."
October 1, 2013:   "How We Prepared for War" by Caitlin Bailey   "It was necessary to become cold. To forget the lives..."
September 30, 2013:   "Battering Robin Syndrome" by Tina Kelley   "He has split his beak on my view...."
September 29, 2013:   "A Fold in Time" by Ann Lauterbach   "Not to swerve off the road..."
September 28, 2013:   "The Hotel" by Austin Smith   "The radiator holds..."
September 27, 2013:   "The Whole Facts" by Walter Bargen   "Call it fact, mere fact, plain fact..."
September 26, 2013:   "Doubt" by Sydney Lea   "Something wakes me in the west of Montana...."
September 25, 2013:   "Where Death Is Not an Is" by Katie Manning   "I met Jesus the next day..."
September 24, 2013:   "Romeo Bones" by Ron Paul Salutsky   "Allergies today are puffed up..."
September 23, 2013:   "Tiger" by Robert Siegel   "Like these shadows..."
September 22, 2013:   "Not an Omen" by Charles Goodrich   "We're watching a lurid sunset..."
September 21, 2013:   "Door" by Peter Joseph Gloviczki   "And what will the ricochet..."
September 20, 2013:   "Poetica No Apologia Arty Kumbaya" by Jim Daniels   "I am not a minister's son or a former pro boxer..."
September 19, 2013:   "Doorknobs" by Lois Marie Harrod   "Someday one will turn and slip—hot and heavy..."
September 18, 2013:   "How to Make Love in the Garden of Good and Evil" by Lo Kwa Mei-en   "Your nimbus is pouring. Your halo shows off from under my dress..."
September 17, 2013:   "Decent Recipe for Tilapia" by Jillian Weise   "Tell your back home friends it means nothing..."
September 16, 2013:   "Fail" by Robert Lunday   "I want a tattoo eraser and make it painless...."
September 15, 2013:   "The Hole at the Bottom of the Pool" by Caroline Maun   "The pool was aquamarine serene..."
September 14, 2013:   "Museum" by Brenda Mann Hammack   "Some things we don't mean to collect..."
September 13, 2013:   "3-Tiered Steamer" by Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess   "My pink comes from before...."
September 12, 2013:   "Penelope's Shield" by Frank Osen   "Laughing Boy returns and the dog drops dead...."
September 11, 2013:   "In Ripe Wilderness" by Bill Rasmovicz   "There is blood so red it is black, horns..."
September 10, 2013:   "Decision Time For The Would-Be Twelve Stepper" by Randall Horton   "directly above one-stop liquor store..."
September 9, 2013:   "Dog in the Valley" by Tishani Doshi   "Last night / I heard a dog..."
September 8, 2013:   "Moon-Wrapped Fragrant Spareribs" by Kiki Petrosino   "Happy is that eater who rules by the cylone of her face...."
September 7, 2013:   "Once" by Michelle Gil-Montero   "Once again begins..."
September 6, 2013:   "The Severing" by Chris Forhan   "Any pistol I've touched was a toy. The hanging..."
September 5, 2013:   "Clifton Gorge" by Julie L. Moore   "Balsam floods the woods..."
September 4, 2013:   "The Performance" by Sarah Rose Nordgren   "It's not right that she should do this..."
September 3, 2013:   "Space from Nothing" by Steve Barbaro   "Rhythm being time..."
September 2, 2013:   "The Man with My Name" by Reginald Harris   "Lives in another town...."
September 1, 2013:   "cold water" by Robert Lee Brewer   "we spill ourselves all over ourselves..."
August 31, 2013:   "This is the house of yearning—" by Shaindel Beers   "the featherbed on rusted box springs...."
August 30, 2013:   "Ouranomancy" by Maureen Alsop   "Stasis equals your belief in a window. From it you see..."
August 29, 2013:   "I used to think everything was part of a larger conversation" by Weston Cutter   "but maybe there's only the boats..."
August 28, 2013:   "Work Product" by Brett Fletcher Lauer   "I am here breathing..."
August 27, 2013:   "Circuit someone, somewhere" by Jane Lewty   "Circuit someone, somewhere..."
August 26, 2013:   "No. 7, Black Form, 1964" by Martin Rock   "Raven desired a doorway to language..."
August 25, 2013:   "Still in the Night Fields of Hokkaido" by Fiona Sze-Lorrain   "Inattentive rain. Inattentive star...."
August 24, 2013:   "Vaudeville" by Barbara Crooker   "Late October, and the sky is that clear blue scrim..."
August 23, 2013:   "Making Stars with Jacob Lawrence" by Myronn Hardy   "The only cardboard we had was the box..."
August 22, 2013:   "Man" by Michael Bazzett   "burrows into his cave..."
August 21, 2013:   "Paranoia Is a Kind of Rain" by Daniel Moysaenko   "Paranoia is a kind of rain..."
August 20, 2013:   "Drift" by Gregory Lawless   "In the desert..."
August 19, 2013:   "Brute Dictation" by Jules Gibbs   "To outsmart the world you've got to..."
August 18, 2013:   "I do not believe in silence" by Clare Shaw   "Because, tonight..."
August 17, 2013:   "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands   "And the floors dreaming in wide..."
August 16, 2013:   "Gravity" by Brent Goodman   "More and more there is a room..."
August 15, 2013:   "The Horses are Fighting" by Jill Osier   "There was absolutely no way..."
August 14, 2013:   "Neither Snow Shovel Nor Hoe" by Olena Kalytiak Davis   "There was absolutely no way..."
August 13, 2013:   "Body" by James Hoch   "I hang it here, in the entry..."
August 12, 2013:   "Calf" by Lisa Coffman   "And when the forelegs unlaced and let go..."
August 11, 2013:   "Last Request" by Pamela Miller   "I don't want to go out..."
August 10, 2013:   "What Love Is" by Chistopher Locke   "Love is not a maiden with apple..."
August 9, 2013:   "Hunger" by Michelle Bonczek   "What feeds us is not the nipple...."
August 8, 2013:   "Self-portrait as Porcupine" by Rebecca Hoogs   "Out walking, the dog..."
August 7, 2013:   "In the Horse Latitudes — Dodging Acts of God on 1-65 on a Tuesday" by Dana Roeser   "Dana Roeser..."
August 6, 2013:   "Model Minority" by Jason Koo   "I was thinking on the subway yesterday and thinking I think this fairly..."
August 5, 2013:   "Table" by Cynthia Atkins   "For once, tell us your troubles..."
August 4, 2013:   "At the western outfitters the clerk" by Ed Skoog   "shows me a photo of the musk ox..."
August 3, 2013:   "Bright Stars" by Moira Egan   "And yet, 0 Morning Star, look what you've done...."
August 2, 2013:   "Small-Time Rapture" by Sandy Longhorn   "The turning point was thus..."
August 1, 2013:   "This is a City of Bridges" by Jeff Dolven   "This is a city of bridges..."
July 31, 2013:   "It's Up To You, New York" by Meghan Privitello   "If my fortune cookie said New York is a runaway bride and..."
July 30, 2013:   "Out of Place" by Claire Sylvester Smith   "For a while the most erotic thing I could imagine..."
July 29, 2013:   "Ha Ha Unicorns" by Eileen G'Sell   "To marry is to compromise; I hate compromise. I hate compromise..."
July 28, 2013:   "Icon" by John Hennessy   "Who'd envy buff but languid Antinous..."
July 27, 2013:   "Solemn, wide-mouthed streets" by Annmarie O’Connell   "wear a betrayed look...."
July 26, 2013:   "Afterburn" by Jennifer Militello   "Things too thin inhabit our dreams and we take on..."
July 25, 2013:   "This World" by Oni Buchanan   "The sailboats are out on the river...."
July 24, 2013:   "Nothing Nice to Say" by Nick Courtright   "When I hear the air-conditioner kick on..."
July 23, 2013:   "It's Here In The" by Russell Atkins   "Here in the newspaper—wreck of the East Bound...."
July 22, 2013:   "The Distant Future" by C.J. Sage   "When it happens—something will..."
July 20, 2013:   "Felinity" by Stephen Burt   "The indifferent, the out of love, people so bored with their work..."
July 19, 2013:   "The Cattle Were Lowing" by Donald Revell   "It might also have been a sleigh ride...."
July 18, 2013:   "Refrain" by Maggie Glover   "I am learning that life is a pond. No...."
July 17, 2013:   "After" by Fady Joudah   "Over treasure and land some texts will say it had..."
July 16, 2013:   "Dona Nobis Pacem" by Todd Davis   "The moon grows from nothing to a porcelain sliver...."
July 15, 2013:   "Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top" by Lisa Olstein   "When we say specimen..."
July 14, 2013:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" by Christopher Citro   "It's how you know I love you..."
July 13, 2013:   "Death" by Kwame Dawes   "First your dog dies and you pray..."
July 12, 2013:   "An Inventory of Lost Things" by Karla Huston   "Of course the Dodo bird, not..."
July 11, 2013:   "Karaoke" by Brandon Kreitler   "A lectern was placed in the woods...."
July 10, 2013:   "Oquossoc" by Sara Gelston   "A locked door is a sign of distrust so the bolt and latch are removed...."
July 9, 2013:   "If from a City, by Wolves" by Tung-Hui Hu   "Sometimes I am like the traffic..."
July 8, 2013:   "I made a body but not to beBarley Bees, Barlow Or" by Daniel Carter   "I made a body but not to be..."
July 7, 2013:   "The Egyptian Revolution of 2011" by Peter Davis   "I just love my kids. I mean what does love even mean..."
July 6, 2013:   "Wyld" by A. Minetta Gould   "& I don't quite know..."
July 5, 2013:   "Song of the Jellyfish" by Lee Upton   "If I’m sap in a bladder or a..."
July 4, 2013:   "Minnows" by Hailey Leithauser   "Minimal fishes..."
July 3, 2013:   "Natural Causes" by Andrea Hollander   "The track was hidden by a line..."
July 2, 2013:   "They Have a Point" by Jennifer Boyden   "When the gods gave us all the holes..."
July 1, 2013:   "Ascent" by Greg Wrenn   "I surrendered my butane lighter to you at the gate..."
June 30, 2013:   "[we stand in]" by Joshua Marie Wilkinson   "we stand in..."
June 29, 2013:   "M/mediation I Dominance" by Ruth Ellen Kocher   "The once has never said..."
June 28, 2013:   "Elegy for a Small Town Psychic" by Morri Creech   "Weekdays you rummaged through the universe..."
June 27, 2013:   "The Watchtower" by Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito   "You could guard the city if you could bear..."
June 26, 2013:   "Crane" by David Yezzi   "Paper creased is..."
June 25, 2013:   "Couple" by Bruce Willard   "You said I was the gas..."
June 24, 2013:   "fish Tales" by Maureen Seaton   "Look at her, all ocean...."
June 23, 2013:   "Our Lady of Ash Wednesday" by Joe Hall   "A third virgin carved from horn and..."
June 22, 2013:   "As Tears" by Christina Pugh   "I'm thinking of his portrait: it's an X-ray..."
June 21, 2013:   "Kingfisher" by J.W. Marshall   "Didn't see the kingfisher..."
June 20, 2013:   "Geep" by Sidney Wade   "The music / of the sleepy..."
June 19, 2013:   "Incantations to Snow" by Lawrence Revard   "bpj682, bpj682 the streets, and block the moon...."
June 18, 2013:   "Flight to the Interior" by Nathan Hoks   "I've got secrets I'm about to leave in the river..."
June 17, 2013:   "Practice Test" by Anne Cecelia Holmes   "I almost say formula..."
June 16, 2013:   "Kings" by William Fuller   "The chances are good you were built from kings like these, whoever you..."
June 15, 2013:   "A Name I Could Not Say Aloud" by James Allen Hall   "One August night, a man will cook me dinner..."
June 14, 2013:   "Tar" by Douglas Kearney   "by the roadside, rude and odd and who..."
June 13, 2013:   "The Colorblind Man" by Michael Hettich   "I drove by a parking lot full of black birds..."
June 12, 2013:   "Here in This New Place Is Your Memory" by Wendy Xu   "Here in this new place it is reasonable to own..."
June 11, 2013:   "Book of Janus" by Rebecca Hazelton   "I have seen a man and a woman sewn together..."
June 10, 2013:   "Catch & Release" by William D. Waltz   "Dear Reluctant Sportsman..."
June 9, 2013:   "Idiot Moon" by Sydney Lea   "The hard-edged candor of moon in her early rising..."
June 8, 2013:   "Never the Twain" by Partridge Boswell   "Perfect pearl suspended..."
June 7, 2013:   "No Threat, Nuthatch" by Sally Ball   "Tiny presence in the pines..."
June 6, 2013:   "Squab" by Melissa Ginsburg   "I was in love in the library. I had a perch, and a future..."
June 5, 2013:   "The Rowboat" by Michael Hettich   "A rowboat, she tells me, out of sight of land..."
June 4, 2013:   "If This Is What It Takes" by Curtis Bauer   "The knife in your hand wants flesh..."
June 3, 2013:   "Father Time Has a Face Made of Late-Season Vegetables" by Rebecca Lehmann   "The sundry displays..."
June 2, 2013:   "Blackberry Picking After Old Michaelmas" by Jessica Poli   "Winter fell in a heap...."
June 1, 2013:   "Surrender" by Joanne Dominique Dwyer   "To be baptized is to surrender..."
May 31, 2013:   "Form" by Louise Mathias   "Maybe you forget these pointless hills...."
May 30, 2013:   "Demonstrated Melancholy" by Nate Pritts   "I would like to request a volunteer...."
May 29, 2013:   "Sciurus Carolinesis" by Max Garland   "It's hopeless how she loves this life...."
May 28, 2013:   "Mambo Habana" by Philip Alvaré   "Grajo en jacaranda—peep, peep, peep..."
May 27, 2013:   "The Infinite Recession of The Object of Desire" by David Bergman   "Although I haven't seen him in thirty years..."
May 26, 2013:   "The Other One" by Karen Holmberg   "The scale had finally tipped. The crown..."
May 25, 2013:   "Pear Tree" by Karen Holmberg   "The scale had finally tipped. The crown..."
May 24, 2013:   "The Secret Lives of Maps" by Yvette Christiansë   "On occasion, the animals..."
May 23, 2013:   "Little Thieves" by Matthew Thorburn   "A golden scorpion skewered..."
May 22, 2013:   "Darling" by Alex Dimitrov   "The days fall out of your pockets one after the other...."
May 21, 2013:   "People in History" by Christian Barter   "They couldn't know the shame of their condition...."
May 20, 2013:   "Ararat" by Gary J. Whitehead   "Years later, in spite of his weak knees..."
May 19, 2013:   "Dusk in the Ruins" by Ernest Hilbert   "I arrive, one more uninvited guest...."
May 18, 2013:   "The Stick Soldiers" by Hugh Martin   "The children colored the cards..."
May 17, 2013:   "Thumbnail Moon" by Beth Copeland   "On the drive home..."
May 16, 2013:   "Words Against the Walls of the City" by Bruce Bond   "Night loves a ladder...."
May 15, 2013:   "First Garden" by Adrienne Su   "All summer I've tried to hold on..."
May 14, 2013:   "It Startles" by Mary Margaret Alvarado   "Who can punctuate it? Wife...."
May 13, 2013:   "Elegy with lies" by Bob Hicok   "This lost person I loved. Loved for a hundred years...."
May 12, 2013:   "Spook House" by Benjamin Myers   "The first. I heard of Dante..."
May 11, 2013:   "In Praise of What Does Not Belong to Us" by Peggy Shumaker   "Let's not mourn..."
May 10, 2013:   "animal, vegetable, mineral" by Marty McConnell   "last night I felt a salt sorrow rise..."
May 9, 2013:   "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" by Mary Biddinger   "You wanted to open a café called..."
May 8, 2013:   "He Kept them There All Year" by Bill Neumire   "When my neighbor passed last winter a snow-stacked branch..."
May 7, 2013:   "Word Over All, Beautiful as Sky" by David Axelrod   "The tall doors I thought bolted..."
May 6, 2013:   "[Spring kinks its shiv]" by Benjamin Cartwright   "Spring kinks its shiv..."
May 5, 2013:   "To Margot Kidder, With Love" by Collin Kelley   "I spent the summer of 1980 with Margot Kidder..."
May 4, 2013:   "Like Father" by Rich Smith   "Father, you would not be surprised that I lose..."
May 3, 2013:   "Here Be Monsters" by Katharine Coles   "We could fall off one..."
May 2, 2013:   "Love Poem for What It Is" by Rebecca Hazelton   "There's nothing in the world that loves you..."
May 1, 2013:   "Phlogiston Footage" by Nicky Beer   "The lights dim. We creak in our seats...."
April 29, 2013:   "Ms. and Super Pac-Man" by B. J. Best   "They met at Overeaters Anonymous. She liked his muscular..."
April 28, 2013:   "I Cannot Say That When I Saw You You Did Not Look Like a Lover" by Chloë Joan López   "But I fear our..."
April 27, 2013:   "Performance" by Tyler Mills   "The story involves a whole village kept busy..."
April 26, 2013:   "Elegy" by Cintia Santana   "Leather like my shoe, this..."
April 25, 2013:   "Brief Study of Parades" by Jill Osier   "1) There must be lifting...."
April 24, 2013:   "How I Made My Money" by Noah Blaustein   "I went to the loon and swapped..."
April 23, 2013:   "Burn This House" by Kelly Davio   "Tell the rescuers they are not wanted...."
April 22, 2013:   "Shape of Fire" by Brynn Saito   "Sometimes the fires moved closer to home..."
April 21, 2013:   "Risen from the Underworld" by Patricia Clark   "Arranged on slabs of sedimentary rock, rough-edged..."
April 20, 2013:   "Grief" by Richard Brostoff   "Somewhere in the Sargasso Sea..."
April 19, 2013:   "Room of Resignation" by Allison Seay   "I did something she could not forgive...."
April 18, 2013:   "A Last Moth of August" by Nance Van Winckel   "With a wing cocked towards a lit lamp..."
April 17, 2013:   "Insomniac Romance" by Lynn Levin   "We hate to hate each other but we do..."
April 16, 2013:   "Elk Skeleton" by Amy Fleury   "Down the draw at dusk seven mule deer come..."
April 15, 2013:   "Candling Eggs" by Stephanie Pippin   "At one end of the egg an owl..."
April 14, 2013:   "Black Whistling" by Marni Ludwig   "It's not listening, it's behaving...."
April 13, 2013:   "And Having Broken Into Blossom" by Eloise Klein Healy   "there is no against..."
April 12, 2013:   "Ode to the Artichoke" by Pablo Neruda translated by William Pitt Root   "The tender-hearted..."
April 11, 2013:   "[but the rain is full of ghosts tonight]" by dawn lonsinger   "and it has taken something from me..."
April 10, 2013:   "Solitude" by John Daniel   "Never still, mist..."
April 9, 2013:   "Dear So & So" by Beth Marzoni   "If sleepless straight through & down & out & into..."
April 8, 2013:   "The Book of Revelation" by Sam Taylor   "only takes a moment...."
April 7, 2013:   "The Bladder" by David Keplinger   "He who'll lose his bladder calls it Three Days Down, or..."
April 6, 2013:   "Lincoln's Life Mask" by Keith Flynn   "Who would guess, 150 years hence..."
April 5, 2013:   "Valediction Lessons: Flora" by Corey Van Landingham   "Bromeliads hold their water close for later...."
April 4, 2013:   "What Befalls You" by Ethel Rackin   "I could no longer stand the trees..."
April 3, 2013:   "What It Means to Inherit" by Stacey Waite   "The part of me who is my father..."
April 2, 2013:   "Blanks" by Kimberly Johnson   "The sun rolls up like jackpot..."
April 1, 2013:   "The Comet" by Emma Törzs   "I re-named the comet but nothing stuck. What do I know of bone-..."
March 31, 2013:   "Lyric" by Daisy Fried   "A woman crying on the phone in her Marketplace flower kiosk..."
March 30, 2013:   "Letter to Borges from Syracuse" by Stephen Kuusisto   "Down where the great tenor must have felt it, under my left-side low rib..."
March 29, 2013:   "Snapdragons" by Anne Champion   "The fog lifts, revealing..."
March 28, 2013:   "Dust" by Maureen A. Sherbondy   "Those who sleep in the dust..."
March 27, 2013:   "Windigo, OH" by Michael O. Marberry   "My father seemed to eat the world. He was a world..."
March 26, 2013:   "When the Men Go Off to War" by Victoria Kelly   "What happens when they leave..."
March 25, 2013:   "Doom Is the House without the Door" by Jennifer Chang   "More than once you wanted me to die...."
March 24, 2013:   "Four Fights" by Natalie Shapero   "(point) To stop a crime in progress..."
March 23, 2013:   "A Road in the Sky" by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers   "It wouldn't be held..."
March 22, 2013:   "Elegy" by Jaswinder Bolina   "In sun the sunburned skin sloughs off the sunburned shoulder...."
March 21, 2013:   "What the Given Says to the Made" by Bruce Bond   "How odd the ordinary birds that praise..."
March 20, 2013:   "Yardscape Diagram, Good Friday" by Joshua Robbins   "Late-March, postlapsarian afternoon...."
March 19, 2013:   "Augenblick" by Mark Irwin   "By the drainpipe beneath the viburnum, just..."
March 18, 2013:   "Ealuscerwen" by Edward Mayes   "We weren't there that fall in Rome..."
March 17, 2013:   "Gifts out of Dirty Weather" by Elton Glaser   "At the mall, three dead weeks before Christmas..."
March 16, 2013:   "Bricolage" by Hedy Habra   "Go every day a little deeper..."
March 15, 2013:   "Lullaby (with Exit Sign)" by Hadara Bar-Nadav   "I slept with all four hooves..."
March 14, 2013:   "Little Muchness" by Mary Ann Samyn   "Some shouting and the tree came down branch by branch..."
March 13, 2013:   "Beautiful, The Dead End" by Allison Davis   "of your body..."
March 12, 2013:   "Revisiting Snow Man" by Scott Minar   "Insidious knows some snow men...."
March 11, 2013:   "Song Riddle: Night-Blooming Saguaro" by Karen An-Hwei Lee   "I love the stone-strewn bajadas...."
March 10, 2013:   "To Those Who Would Awaken" by Afaa Michael Weaver   "it will happen like this for many of you..."
March 9, 2013:   "Lullaby for the Daughter I Gave Away" by Sarah Freligh   "Sometimes I write a letter of resignation to the universe..."
March 8, 2013:   "Surface Tension" by Chelsea Rathburn   "In the park, a pond aflame..."
March 7, 2013:   "Sand Fish" by Charles Harper Webb   "It's said they started in beach sand..."
March 6, 2013:   "Recession Commandments" by Denise Duhamel   "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house..."
March 5, 2013:   "This World is Only Going to Break Your Heart" by Corey Van Landingham   "Space has been shut off for summer, etc...."
March 4, 2013:   "Another Pastoral A" by Aaron McCollough   "Slice of fruit and coffeecigarette slice of..."
March 3, 2013:   "The Telemarketer Takes a Workshop" by Gabriel Welsch   "The villanelle serves the cycle..."
March 2, 2013:   "The Invented Child" by Margaret Mackinnon   "Someone who once knew him said..."
March 1, 2013:   "A Trick Knee" by Mary Biddinger   "My humor was not an ill humor...."
February 28, 2013:   "The Americans" by Elizabeth Hughey   "The slippery way of arriving is in one's own departure...."
February 27, 2013:   "Estrangement" by Paula Bohince   "Better if the chickadee gave up..."
February 26, 2013:   "Small Government" by Kevin J. Craft   "For instance, the sheen of headlights on a wet freeway..."
February 25, 2013:   "Hearing is a Talent That Must be Honed" by Brianna Noll   "We've always been..."
February 24, 2013:   "The Garden" by Heather Winterer   "After the fall we struggled with mutability..."
February 23, 2013:   "They Promised Me a Thousand Years of Peace" by Lauren Shapiro   "The snow falls blank as a contract no one..."
February 22, 2013:   "Westman Island" by Rebecca Farivar   "I'm on my back in a field..."
February 21, 2013:   "Promenade" by Lorraine Doran   "Over the sound of invisible cars..."
February 20, 2013:   "The Philosopher Savant Again Dreams of War" by Rustin Larson   "Insurgencies on boundaries of garden..."
February 19, 2013:   "Land Lines" by Elizabeth Hughey   "It is a morning after...."
February 18, 2013:   "Embleton Bay" by Emily Wolahan   "sets off the campaign; its brightness burns..."
February 17, 2013:   "What the Thunder Says" by Alfred Corn   "A crack a second and a third splinter as the dam fractures..."
February 16, 2013:   "Lula and the Death of Daddy Longlegs" by John Allman   "The circle of its body dried out, sprawled legs brittle as threads..."
February 15, 2013:   "The Joy That Tends Toward Unbecoming" by Joseph Fasano   "Say five men carry a sixth from the birches...."
February 14, 2013:   "[I was always one for]" by Christopher Kondrich   "I was always one for..."
February 13, 2013:   "To a Cardinal" by Don Welch   "When you finished singing..."
February 12, 2013:   "Beyond the Crepe Myrtles, Blue Yodel" by R. T. Smith   "The snake in his new outfit coils and shivers...."
February 11, 2013:   "Bethany Man" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "From afar it looks like the bus is stranded..."
February 10, 2013:   "Transfiguration between the Graves" by Carmen Calatayud   "I cup the flame in my watery plams..."
February 9, 2013:   "Naked" by Clare L. Martin   "I am the woman..."
February 8, 2013:   "Eviction Notice" by Dan Gerber   "The spider from the rug suddenly..."
February 7, 2013:   "Labwork" by John A. Nieves   "We can excuse the apprehension..."
February 6, 2013:   "Lighthouse" by Philip Brooks   "The keeper's a liar...."
February 5, 2013:   "Why I Love What Breaks Down" by Steve Kistulentz   "I've broken most things a man can and survived..."
February 4, 2013:   "Coumeenole Beach / Cancer Journal 6" by Steve Wilson   "From hurt the heart unwords itself...."
February 3, 2013:   "The Watering Hour is Dark" by Wendy Willis   "The grass grows ragged and sunflowers languish..."
February 2, 2013:   "Stuck at the Beginning" by Hal Sirowitz   "The beginning of a traffic circle..."
February 1, 2013:   "Syzygy" by Martin Ott   "The dead have lost their sense of humor...."
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson   "He gassed them in his closet, then he pinned..."
January 30, 2013:   "Salt Water Ducks" by Cleopatra Mathis   "The tide ingores its limits, all last night..."
January 29, 2013:   "Ornithology 101" by Derek Sheffield   "Now that you have staked their skeletons..."
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan   "Against the window these tremulous..."
January 27, 2013:   "A Circumference" by Jack Christian   "I want to walk the entire shore, around the continent...."
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher   "here all want is for itself..."
January 25, 2013:   "A Thousand Words" by Sarah Kennedy   "In Alabama, snake handlers take up..."
January 24, 2013:   "wake up your saints and settle down for the night" by Sasha Fletcher   "I pull a raised platform strung up with lights out of my mouth..."
January 23, 2013:   "Malamute" by Jehanne Dubrow   "Someone brought winter to the tropics. At first..."
January 22, 2013:   "Historical Documents" by Kelly Forsythe   "I am writing an autobiography of myself as..."
January 21, 2013:   "Hospital for the Ear & Neck" by Shanna Compton   "Setting and receiving tones..."
January 20, 2013:   "River Town" by Nicole Stellon O'Donnell   "The men who became street names..."
January 19, 2013:   "Seem and Be" by John Murphy   "What with me being me and you seeming you..."
January 18, 2013:   "20" by Paul Pines   "Did Audubon..."
January 17, 2013:   "I Write You This on a Train Named for an Endangered Bird" by Kyle McCord   "There are ways a story can't begin. Like pitting your protagonist..."
January 16, 2013:   "Report from the Provinces" by Wayne Miller   "I can say that those stationed here..."
January 15, 2013:   "Missing" by Steven Winn   "I know a man, not well..."
January 14, 2013:   "Shoo Fly" by Kathy Fagan   "Scratch a ponderosa pine &you get..."
January 13, 2013:   "Soldierization" by Jane Satterfield   "A woman can drive a tank across a desert, but what happens when sand shifts, kicks up &..."
January 12, 2013:   "The Fortune-Teller" by Rachel Hadas   "When I impulsively had my fortune told..."
January 11, 2013:   "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy   "For a century you held maternal..."
January 10, 2013:   "First Smile" by Alessandra Lynch   "More beautiful because without intent..."
January 9, 2013:   "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett   "My daughter has discussed at length..."
January 8, 2013:   "feeder" by Beth Bachmann   "The mouths of the dead are always..."
January 7, 2013:   "Above the Lake" by Stephen O'Connor   "In this season the world is composed..."
January 5, 2013:   "Ministry Today" by Steve Davenport   "The weight of color's a body floating..."
January 4, 2013:   "In the Ear of Our Lord" by Brendan Constantine   "I thought you said you love..."
January 3, 2013:   "The Dream" by Roger Mitchell   "It didn't care what happened, came..."
January 2, 2013:   "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow   "Dark charms the anchor in its house..."
January 1, 2013:   "Ornament" by Dore Kiesselbach   "The Christmas tree comes down..."
December 31, 2012:   "New Hampshire Spring" by Cynthia Hogue   "A whooshing passed over us..."
December 30, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Designated Driver" by Daniela Olszewska   "you are trying out..."
December 29, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Artless" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "is my heart. A stranger berry..."
December 28, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Fang Face" by Matt Hart   "The joy is too much, and the mouth is too..."
December 27, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "A Prisoner of Things" by Alan Michael Parker   "If only this novel were trashier..."
December 26, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Building of Unseen Cats" by Zachary Schomburg   "When I woke up, it was the middle of the night and..."
December 25, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle   "Once I was on earth..."
December 24, 2012 (A 2012 Favorite):   "Live Light" by James Grinwis   "There are lines at the station..."
December 23, 2012:   "Cleveland" by Avram Kline   "thday tadashi was driving thcorolla..."
December 22, 2012:   "Submission to Emptiness" by Sara Dailey   "For a week there are seven wasps..."
December 21, 2012:   "Goldfinches" by Lisa Russ Spaar   "If never was the question. Even then...."
December 20, 2012:   "Albert the Pig Speaks" by Adam Day   "The tumor's behind my eye— a corkscrew..."
December 19, 2012:   "Woman, Mined" by Carolyn Creedon   "In the cosmetics department of Lord & Taylor..."
December 18, 2012:   "454" by Justin Runge   "Locked land..."
December 17, 2012:   "Object In Our Conscience" by Emily Pettit   "I heard a shark. It sounded like shock...."
December 16, 2012:   "[Yes, I studied. Oftentimes, death]" by Joshua McKinney   "Yes, I studied. Oftentimes, death..."
December 15, 2012:   "'And the Fish Swim in the Lake, And Do Not Even Own Clothing'" by Michael Blumenthal   "And they never complain, and are never cold..."
December 14, 2012:   "Skunk Cabbage" by Robert Gibb   "Finally, today, I found some..."
December 13, 2012:   "The New Religion" by T. J. Beitelman   "Alas. / Jude finds himself..."
December 12, 2012:   "On Omens" by Mark Wunderlich   "Today, the sky is boiling...."
December 11, 2012:   "Mother's Hair" by Adam Day   "Sometimes father cut her..."
December 10, 2012:   "Zero Hour" by Dean Young   "Like when you realize sunsets really are..."
December 9, 2012:   "Winter Mantel" by David Livewell   "The copper vessel boasts its age..."
December 8, 2012:   "Before Jumping Off the Bridge" by Kim Bridgford   "I loved to play the violin, to hear..."
December 7, 2012:   "Your Brain" by Jessy Randall   "Your brain is two little girls who talk all day..."
December 6, 2012:   "Puberty, as the Character of Gordon Gekko" by Jehanne Dubrow   "Greed was good, and I..."
December 5, 2012:   "Magus" by Brandon Krieg   "I pick the dandelion's..."
December 4, 2012:   "Watching People Walk Along" by Juan Gelman (translated by Hardie St. Martin)   "Watching people walk along, put on a suit..."
December 3, 2012:   "A Servant. A Hanging. A Paper House." by Lucy Anderton   "I rose like a flannel..."
December 2, 2012:   "I carry you" by Amanda Dalton   "like a fortune-telling fish on one flat palm..."
November 30, 2012:   "You Darkness" by Eva Saulitis   "October darkness (can't)..."
November 29, 2012:   "Gone & Gone" by Rodney Wittwer   "We meet as always..."
November 28, 2012:   "River of Feather & Web" by Carolyn Guinzio   "They have not found it yet...."
November 27, 2012:   "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen   "Like all opposites, inoperable..."
November 26, 2012:   "Rara Avis Decoy" by Lo Kwa Mei-en   "Call me darling on the surface...."
November 25, 2012:   "'Free Bible in Your Own Language'" by Heather Kirn Lanier   "Call me doubting Tom, but have you heard..."
November 24, 2012:   "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" by Peter Cooley   "I heard this from the stars; it must be true..."
November 23, 2012:   "Santa Cruz Carney Girl" by Scot Siegel   "I am not a stereotype..."
November 22, 2012:   "My Only Deftness" by Lisa Ampleman   "You say that if you field-dress the turkey, steam rises..."
November 21, 2012:   "Pittsburgh Plate & Glass Company Lot 63" by Sara J. Grossman   "Nothing dies in a field of steel...."
November 20, 2012:   "Deadline World" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "This way every minute is the last...."
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian   "The leather boats lift themselves..."
November 18, 2012:   "Harvest" by Peter Covino   "You have untied the tomato plants..."
November 17, 2012:   "Without Warning" by Charles Simic   "The bird cage was gone and the couch..."
November 16, 2012:   "Penitent" by CJ Evans   "Long ago my knuckles mended, and I forgot how to want..."
November 15, 2012:   "The Mining Camps of the Mouth" by George Kalamaras   "He spoke with words that had been held before in the..."
November 14, 2012:   "Love Letter to RuPaul" by Marcus Wicker   "You have one of the longest..."
November 13, 2012:   "My Wife in All Things" by Hadara Bar-Nadav   "My wife the sun. A chiffon dress lit with poppies and devilish hearts. Buttershine on..."
November 12, 2012:   "Story" by Honor Moore   "A big train is coming..."
November 11, 2012:   "Firmament" by Sarah Vap   "We were touching each other, of course...."
November 10, 2012:   "[It was so beautiful right before]" by Derick Burleson   "It was so beautiful right before..."
November 9, 2012:   "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee   "I was only fourteen, but I voted for George Wallace..."
November 8, 2012:   "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey   "So many beautiful, manageable heads. If only we were..."
November 7, 2012:   "Going There" by Colleen J. McElroy   "we will cross where the border is porous..."
November 6, 2012:   "The Power of the Vulnerable Body" by CM Burroughs   "Love, / precursor to our shank-less entrances. Nothing strapped at the ankle or..."
November 5, 2012:   "Lovesongs For Boxwrenches" by Weston Cutter   "I built this mobile because I believe..."
November 4, 2012:   "Elements" by Nicole Terez Dutton   "There must be a train station..."
November 3, 2012:   "You Love Desperately and Like a Raft" by Laura Eve Engel   "the clear water that holds up your boat...."
November 2, 2012:   "Just Vanilla" by Susan Wheeler   "She was a pistol...."
November 1, 2012:   "Torch Song: Mad Song" by Allyson Paty & Danniel Schoonebeck   "The wind wants me to lose..."
October 31, 2012:   "After the Feast at Year's End" by Brenda Hillman   "—the flash, a low cry..."
October 30, 2012:   "Une Lettre de la Mer de Glace" by Jo Ann Clark   "I have escaped the Mesopotamian heat..."
October 29, 2012:   "Artless" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "is my heart. A stranger berry..."
October 28, 2012:   "Reckoning" by Joe Wilkins   "Wind in the blue cedars, the soap smell..."
October 27, 2012:   "Tell Me If You've Heard This One" by Susan Blackwell Ramsey   "Surprise is what we value in a joke..."
October 26, 2012:   "Carnival Nocturne" by Mark Wagenaar   "Peanut shells crackle beneath your pink slippers..."
October 25, 2012:   "Pier" by Michael Chitwood   "Short road...."
October 24, 2012:   "There's this string" by Matthew Thorburn   "I follow I don't know..."
October 23, 2012:   "Spreading Ash" by Sandra Meek   "What's falling isn't her but..."
October 22, 2012:   "Oh No She Didn't But Then She Did" by Mary Biddinger   "I told that lady she had two of the same baby...."
October 21, 2012:   "Studies for a Portrait" by Gabriel Spera   "Consider her ability to sleep..."
October 20, 2012:   "Then" by Jill Osier   "Everything became some kind of bird. Lovers..."
October 19, 2012:   "A body's not a wristwatch to unwind itself" by Carolyn Hembree   "A briolette, a mind is on the wing..."
October 18, 2012:   "I hear the dinner plates gossip" by Steven Cramer   "I hear the dinner plates gossip..."
October 17, 2012:   "The Beach House" by Leslie Adams   "There was a moon..."
October 16, 2012:   "Longings and Gratitudes" by Dan Stone   "I notice it sometimes..."
October 15, 2012:   "Winter Solstice" by Donald Revell   "Slender moon a kind of scar or cicatrix..."
October 14, 2012:   "The Sun Turns Like a Pinwheel" by Oni Buchanan   "A raft stretches behind our mother..."
October 13, 2012:   "Ode to Nitrous Oxide" by Sharon Dolin   "Is it only the memory of being..."
October 12, 2012:   "Once Not, Now Broken" by Susan Elbe   "Before you ask about my lightning mouth..."
October 11, 2012:   "'The way to keep...'" by Alessandra Lynch   "The way to keep what we caught was through transformation..."
October 10, 2012:   "Self-Portrait as San Carlito" by Rebecca Hoogs   "We say in sum to summon some kind..."
October 9, 2012:   "The Monkey Bird" by Katherine Soniat   "I say, crow and watch it fly through the pines..."
October 8, 2012:   "Galena" by Steve Gehrke   "Half-an-hour climb and I'm breathing..."
October 7, 2012:   "The Parable of the Mustard Seed" by Bruce Beasley   "+Not-yet-irruptive, unparousial noon..."
October 6, 2012:   "My Death" by Wally Swist   "The pigeons fly up past windowpanes..."
October 5, 2012:   "Swell" by Hoa Nguyen   "Swell    you can dream more the earth..."
October 4, 2012:   "Orpheus, to No One but Himself" by A. E. Watkins   "From here, the moon is a manhole to streets..."
October 3, 2012:   "Flow" by Maxine Scates   "So much water in the gully..."
October 2, 2012:   "Building the Waterfall" by Sarah Barber   "Let this be October in Public Works'..."
October 1, 2012:   "Pilgrimage" by Rebecca Morgan Frank   "This morning early, I followed..." br>September 30, 2012:   "Chimera" by Karen Glenn   "This morning early, I followed..."
September 29, 2012:   "Music for the Night, Music for the Day" by Julie Brooks Barbour   "To have been a farmer's bride..."
September 28, 2012:   "Somewhere Golden" by Hannah Gamble   "One woman said..."
September 27, 2012:   "What's There" by Dan Rosenberg   "There’s seeing the girl and there’s seeing her..."
September 26, 2012:   "Designated Driver" by Daniela Olszewska   "you are trying out..."
September 25, 2012:   "Geologic Time" by James Haug   "And sometimes I'm just going..."
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" by John A. Nieves   "I know it is mythologically wrong..."
September 23, 2012:   "Perennial" by April Lindner   "You surprise me at noon...."
September 22, 2012:   "The Math Mortician" by Clint Margrave   "Instead of bodies, he sees numbers..."
September 21, 2012:   "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski   "Some days, even the walls of the field are too much for the sow...."
September 20, 2012:   "The changing of the seasons is life and death seen gently" by Dorothea Lasky   "Hello, The changing of the seasons is life and death seen gently..."
September 19, 2012:   "Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia" by Gail Rudd Entrekin   "When the monster grabbed him up, tossed him back..."
September 18, 2012:   "night vision" by Lucille Clifton   "the girl fits her body in..."
September 17, 2012:   "Portrait of My Mother as the Rush Hour Traffic Report" by Juliana Gray   "It’s murder on the interstates tonight...."
September 16, 2012:   "I Paint Self-Portraits of Horses" by W. Vandoren Wheeler   "The horse weighs down..."
September 15, 2012:   "The Mailman" by Nick Ripatrazone   "He did not deliver today, or yesterday..."
September 14, 2012:   "Last Poem" by Craig Morgan Teicher   "I was alone inside a book as I'd wished. It was..."
September 13, 2012:   "The Violence of Violins" by Paul Hostovsky   "It was in them, they would say...."
September 12, 2012:   "Passion Flower" by Melissa Apperson   "While the plural twist..."
September 11, 2012:   "Wandering Albatross" by Suzanne Zweizig   "Wide as whiteness I am spun—year over year..."
September 10, 2012:   "Match" by Brynn Saito   "You live in a house of sound and you live..."
September 9, 2012:   "A Vision" by Caryl Pagel   "I am aware of birds in the gutter as I awake..."
September 8, 2012:   "The Wall, I Sing" by Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow   "I will a wall into the landscape..."
September 7, 2012:   "Public Phone" by Michael Tyrell   "And on the receiver’s live air, the insistent hello..."
September 6, 2012:   "Call Every Man Your Darling" by John Mann   "What is resurrection?..."
September 5, 2012:   "Pseudomorph" by Rebecca Hoogs   "I feel like a Rebecca..."
September 4, 2012:   "Darwin Light" by Erica Bernheim   "When a train goes too fast..."
September 3, 2012:   "First Winter in America" by Gregory Djanikian   "First Winter in America..."
September 2, 2012:   "Scarecrow" by Daniel Nathan Terry   "Scarecrow crafter, burlap-tailor..."
September 1, 2012:   "The Waspmen in the Pines Will Turn to Watch the Gassing" by Philip Sorenson   "Unbutton my shirt, crack my chest..."
August 31, 2012:   "Walking Again" by Mark Jarman   "Every day there was the world, among..."
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer   "Dear eyes, my ears kept paired for you..."
August 29, 2012:   "After Leaving McGuire Veterans Hospital for the Last Time" by Kevin Powers   "This is the last place you’ll ever think..."
August 28, 2012:   "Dallas World Aquarium, Private Tour" by Travis Mossotti   "In the special holding area..."
August 27, 2012:   "The Gallow Ball (1950)" by Stefanie Wortman   "Smartass conservator, I sense..."
August 26, 2012:   "Hobo's Door" by Tiel Aisha Ansari   "There are no trains that run here. Even so..."
August 25, 2012:   "Private Hours" by Colette Inez   "Borges tells of a 15th Century fish taught to weave..."
August 24, 2012:   "Puberty" by Nuala Ní Chonchúir   "There is no jouncing for the girl..."
August 23, 2012:   "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot   "You don't have to understand it..."
August 22, 2012:   "Honey the Sky Ain't Going" by Rochelle Hurt   "Bad weather come, but best..."
August 21, 2012:   "The Body" by Michael Bazzett   "The body is a book and we the words. Footsteps..."
August 20, 2012:   "Self-Portrait as a Bluebird's Open Beak" by C.J. Sage   "No blue at all..."
August 19, 2012:   "Stork" by Rebecca Foust   "Vows broken like bird bones. You spanned abyss intention..."
August 18, 2012:   "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone   "Do you want this precious baby? It can't grow..."
August 17, 2012:   "Sprung Dualities" by James Bertolino   "A persistence of wasps...."
August 16, 2012:   "Landscape with Rain and Glass" by Terence Winch   "The stakes were so much higher...."
August 15, 2012:   "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen   "The self-murder mystery..."
August 14, 2012:   "Wright Park" by Rick Barot   "There must be drugs in the backpack..."
August 13, 2012:   Two poems by Simone Muench   "Under somber firs two wolves mingled..."
August 12, 2012:   "Creek Walk" by Sarah M. Wells   "Wading in the river current..."
August 11, 2012:   "Hokkaido Photo" by Matthew Thorburn   "Me, I'm the square silver camera..."
August 10, 2012:   "Tectonics" by Sheila Sanderson   "If the bone at the base of the neck is Formosa..."
August 9, 2012:   "Starving Horse" by Doug Ramspeck   "It is morning and no worse for it...."
August 8, 2012:   "The Ocean" by Dorothea Lasky   "The ocean is everything..."
August 7, 2012:   "Bowlful of Teeth" by John Beer   "The man who snuck into the garden..."
August 6, 2012:   "The Platitudes" by Terence Winch   "I am perfect and you are perfect..."
August 5, 2012:   "Out, Out" by Richard Wakefield   "A spiral of smoke ascends..."
August 4, 2012:   "Communion" by Joanna Pearson   "How not unlike Communion was first love..."
August 3, 2012:   "A Country Graveyard" by Karen Carissimo   "The last small war was fought in a near field..."
August 2, 2012:   "By Dint of a Screen" by Monika Rinck ( translated by Nicholas Grindell)   "Hark! Hear how honey chronicles mock, hair, hours, greed..."
August 1, 2012:   "At the intersection: burnt August fields" by Jennifer Wallace   "At the intersection: burnt August fields and blistered streets...."
July 31, 2012:   "Feeding a Poem to a Horse" by Alan Michael Parker   "An apple would be better..."
July 30, 2012:   "After Television" by Hayden Carruth   "I wonder continually about that time when we..."
July 29, 2012:   "Cleave" by Joseph Heithaus   "It echoes among the first words, Adam, Eve..."
July 28, 2012:   "Mom, watch—" by Jennifer Richter   "Pink drifts line the street where my son crouches, scoops, and comes up..."
July 27, 2012:   "For Harry, Who Had Three Passports" by Michael Cantor   "I knew a man, who had a man, who knew..."
July 26, 2012:   "Tiny Graves" by David Dodd Lee   "I'm not going to find you. I threaded the idea..."
July 25, 2012:   "Elephants" by LuAnn Keener-Mikenas   "The way elephants stand when turning..."
July 24, 2012:   "Against My Will" by Michael McGriff   "Against my will..."
July 23, 2012:   "Love and Later" by Brian Russell   "Luckily the trees..."
July 22, 2012:   "Pretty Polly" by Jane Springer   "Who made the banjo sad & wrong?..."
July 21, 2012:   "trading aces & eights" by Ken Taylor   "not wearing the white hat on this one..."
July 20, 2012:   "When she saw the angel" by Jean Nordhaus   "in their path, she balked, a little jenny..."
July 19, 2012:   "Barter" by Michael Chitwood   "We invented money..."
July 18, 2012:   "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin   "Even in these hostile times..."
July 17, 2012:   "Sleep Song" by Ethel Rackin   "I want to remember the picture..."
July 16, 2012:   "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan" by Claire Sylvester Smith   "The ceilings were high enough to remind us..."
July 15, 2012:   "Still Life with Rooms People Live In" by Julianne Buchsbaum   "Another squat, windowless morning..."
July 14, 2012:   "Days in Paradise" by Michael Collier   "The bird was on the wire and then it wasn't..."
July 13, 2012:   "The Kiss of the Stone" by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer   "is slow / and significant...."
July 12, 2012:   "In a Landscape: XLI" by John Gallaher   "If only you could burn memories in a little pile..."
July 11, 2012:   "The Last Word" by William Olsen   "You know how to kick me when I'm down...."
July 10, 2012:   "This Is What It Feels Like When I'm Telling the Truth" by Kent Shaw   "There were all these nickels that had to be put in one part of the little town..."
July 9, 2012:   "The Buzzard and Reversal" by Michael Bazzett   "That hooked beak..."
July 8, 2012:   "The Galician Spade" by Cyrus Cassells   "As a barricaded teen..."
July 7, 2012:   "These Are the Last Good Days of the Republic" by Frank X. Gaspar   "That blue chill comes down the street and I can see..."
July 6, 2012:   "Less" by Amelia Klein   "Lane edged..."
July 5, 2012:   "Floating Gardens" by James Doyle   "Just out of reach, overhead..."
July 4, 2012:   "Lake Saganaga" by Jill Osier   "And the whole time we fished, wishes..."
July 3, 2012:   "Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races" by Charles Wyatt   "Here at the table with the books..."
July 2, 2012:   "Larry Levis in Provincetown" by Rick Hilles   "So, this is how I am summoned from nothingness..."
July 1, 2012:   "In the Orchard of Star Fruit" by Robert Grunst   "where after storm clouds ion-charged rains' onshore..."
June 30, 2012:   "When I Sleep, It Still" by Amy Schutzer   "comes to me..."
June 29, 2012:   "Heaven" by J. T. Barbarese   "The faces in the portholes were alphabetized..."
June 28, 2012:   "Rules for Arcadia" by David Kutz-Marks   "Treat people as though..."
June 27, 2012:   "Psalm" by Philip Memmer   "For when I inquire of you Why?..."
June 26, 2012:   three poems from Refutations by Memory by Benjamin Sutton   "Why are you remembering it this way? Why is everything..."
June 25, 2012:   "Black Transit" by Lucia Perillo   "Trees bare. Days short. And at dusk..."
June 24, 2012:   "Revival" by Haines Eason   "If, and when,..."
June 22, 2012:   "Autumnal" by Jared Smith   "Something painful..."
June 21, 2012:   "Red Cloud Postscript" by John Kinsella   "I am draining redwater from the housetank..."
June 20, 2012:   "Dear Humpback Whale" by Sherman Alexie   "You are a barnacled planet afloat..."
June 19, 2012:   "Beach Scene" by Robert Cording   "As I'm watching, a man, idly fishing..."
June 18, 2012:   "Liberation Two" by David Kutz-Marks   "Vapor is never itself these days..."
June 17, 2012:   "Invocation" by Karen An-hwei Lee   "My body isn't shaped like a violin, said the girl...."
June 16, 2012:   "Pandemonium" by Alison Woods   "He could not live beside the sea..."
June 15, 2012:   "For the Highway Medians" by Matthew Buckley Smith   "I've known you only on the way to somewhere else...."
June 14, 2012:   "Persephone (5)" by Jean Gallagher   "I thought I was single and then landed..."
June 13, 2012:   "Novelist" by Jon Davis   "Affable, he is, galumphing about the ranch in galoshes, his three-legged..."
June 12, 2012:   "All the Sciences" by Laura Eve Engel   "The year I fail all the sciences there are..."
June 11, 2012:   "Oracle" by Mark Neely   "I believe in a future..."
June 10, 2012:   "Kitchen Remodels" by Kristin Berkey-Abbott   "In a culture that doesn't cook..."
June 9, 2012:   "The Chance" by Ron Carlson   "All right, we agree, a snowball gets to hell...."
June 8, 2012:   "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas   "One must take into account..."
June 7, 2012:   "If Not River" by Weston Cutter   "Minnesota I’m your river. I start distant, in..."
June 6, 2012:   "Narrative" by Ari Banias   "There is too much to catch up on...."
June 5, 2012:   "In Light of Recent Developments" by Adam Clay   "We are not thinking of the president..."
June 4, 2012:   "Terra Incognita" by Andrea Witzke Slot   "I have scaled unknown ridges and cliffs..."
June 3, 2012:   "Mother's Night" by David Wagoner   "She's celebrating it for me. She's coming back..."
June 2, 2012:   "The Bats" by Martha Zweig   "Born snagged in gorgeous guesswork, within..."
June 1, 2012:   "Lenox Aubade" by Paula Bohince   "I grew my hair out..."
May 31, 2012:   "Brush Fire" by Quinn Latimer   "This ravishing is not..."
May 30, 2012:   "Coming To" by Daniel Gutstein   "In comes diesel out goes diesel in comes diesel...."
May 29, 2012:   "Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone" by J.P. Dancing Bear   "It’s all fenders and hooves with you, she says: the raw light..."
May 28, 2012:   "The Road to Baghdad" by Seth Brady Tucker   "Is less a road than a floral..."
May 27, 2012:   "Nasturtium" by Gigi Marks   "is a ring of simple petals..."
May 26, 2012:   "Pasture" by Ben Clark   "Tired at last with prayer, I leave my bedside..."
May 25, 2012:   "Prometheus as Sparrow" by Shara Lessley   "Unstitched by the crow's ripper..."
May 24, 2012:   "Non-Sonnet for the You Behind the Bedroom Door" by Betsy Wheeler   "Dear Reader, when I say I mean to ravage you..."
May 23, 2012:   "Epistle" by Kate Jenkins   "You are five years old and growing..."
May 22, 2012:   "Frenemy" by Krystal Languell   "I grind my teeth enough that they're getting shorter...."
May 21, 2012:   "[ ] [ ], [ ] [ ]" by Daniela Olszewska   "since moving here, i've daunted..."
May 20, 2012:   "Roots" by George Scarbrough   "Consciousness is the first hurt..."
May 19, 2012:   "The Ugly Man Behind the Little Wood" by Charles Fort   "He must have studied his father's bones..."
May 18, 2012:   "The Ancestor" by Paul Muldoon   "The great-grandmother who bears down on us, as if beholding the mote..."
May 17, 2012:   "Revelation in Slow Time" by G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher   "Here, where no one is in a hurry..."
May 16, 2012:   "Sonar" by Andrew Allport   "So near the skin you hear the blues..."
May 15, 2012:   "Paper Birds" by Julia Koets   "Moths must tire of sleeping near the ceiling...."
May 14, 2012:   "The Hippie Church I was Raised in Doesn't Believe in Sin" by Stevie Edwards   "But I don't know what to do when my body becomes..."
May 13, 2012:   "Deus Ex Machina" by A.E. Stallings   "Because we were good at entanglements, but not..."
May 12, 2012:   "Elegy for the Dead" by Bruce Weigl   "The cemetery walls in disrepair..."
May 11, 2012:   "Siren Song" by Emily Rosko   "Baited it-that's what we did. One big..."
May 10, 2012:   "The International Fruit of Welcome" by Kim Roberts   "A pineapple is the perfect gift..."
May 9, 2012:   "Rose as Red" by G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher   "It's still not good enough. And you were always told..."
May 8, 2012:   "My First Peacock" by Kate Nuernberger   "I keep a white peacock behind my ear..."
May 7, 2012:   "After urgency" by Rusty Morrison   "There is no end to waiting, no mind outside the mind..."
May 6, 2012:   "Our Situation" by Amanda Nadelberg   "The open mouth moves to the field..."
May 5, 2012:   "Oakland Work Crew" by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc   "Dan said, My life is a nine with the hammer cocked..."
May 4, 2012:   "Medicine" by Kim Roberts   "Fog lay atop the single field..."
May 3, 2012:   "For a Few Dollars More" by Mary Austin Speaker   "As awkwardly as..."
May 2, 2012:   "Mailboxes in Late Winter" by Jeffrey Harrison   "It's a motley lot. A few still stand..."
May 1, 2012:   "Prometheus" by Feng Sun Chen   "Fire was not worth it..."
April 30, 2012:   "Painting with Winter Scene" by Liz Robbins   "For fifteen years she went out wearing no..."
April 29, 2012:   "Little Bird" by Corey Marks   "A bird perches on the rail..."
April 28, 2012:   "Thrift" by Kerri Webster   "Stranger buying a sweater, what wool does to my skin..."
April 27, 2012:   "Circles" by Ryan Teitman   "Let what begins..."
April 26, 2012:   "Building of Unseen Cats" by Zachary Schomburg   "When I woke up, it was the middle of the night and..."
April 25, 2012:   "Using a Hula Hoop Can Get You Abducted by Aliens" by Matthea Harvey   "We've never taken anyone..."
April 24, 2012:   "Sleight of Hand" by Kate McQuade   "My first time with Houdini..."
April 23, 2012:   "Dogma" by Nick Courtright   "Dogma, from the Greek, means "that which one..."
April 22, 2012:   "Around One: Late Friday Subway Notes" by Alex Boyd   "Hands in your pockets you're frozen..."
April 21, 2012:   "American Movies" by Laurie J MacDiarmid   "Every Sunday afternoon..."
April 20, 2012:   "On Any Day Like Alice" by Michelle Bitting   "No reason to think it wouldn't happen..."
April 19, 2012:   "Prelude" by Oliver Bendorf   "what kind of / boy..."
April 18, 2012:   "May I?" by Elisabeth Murawski   "No buildings burning. No smoke...."
April 17, 2012:   "Breather" by Alec Hershman   "Respite is the cream of labor...."
April 16, 2012:   [Dear Comma:] by Brandi Wells   "I know it's your birthday and I should have called. I was going..."
April 15, 2012:   "Dog" by Patty Paine   "It's said dogs don't think..."
April 14, 2012:   "The Doctor Rebuilds a Hand" by Gary Young   "His hand was a puppet, more wood than flesh...."
April 13, 2012:   "The Canary" by Melissa Range   "This miner's minion..."
April 12, 2012:   "Transmission" by Judy Halebsky   "From the darkness and the fireflies, he calls me..."
April 11, 2012:   "Morning Poem" by Kathleen Winter   "Yesterday I asked myself again if life can be corrupted by what you..."
April 10, 2012:   "Bat" by Joseph Campana   "All flesh wants is a little..."
April 9, 2012:   "At the Foot of the Windmill" by Joseph V. Milford   "I love having my hands in the mane of this world...."
April 8, 2012:   "Anima" by F. Daniel Rzicznek   "On wet sand the tracks of deer, geese..."
April 7, 2012:   "Swans" by Athena Kildegaard   "Two white bodies float..."
April 6, 2012:   "Your Date with Death" by Andrew Merton   "starts with low expectations...."
April 5, 2012:   "The Catch" by Joseph Green   "Under a high fly ball to right..."
April 4, 2012:   "Consort" by Tanya Larkin   "I am the disease that confirms..."
April 3, 2012:   "Fall for You" by Todd McCarty   "Here-let's string a little gray..."
April 2, 2012:   "In Answer to Your Burning Question" by Mary Ann Samyn   "It was a minor panic, thanks. It was a mirror..."
April 1, 2012:   "Cut Flowers" by Cynthia Huntington   "Though the cut flowers wilt..."
March 30, 2012:   "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" by Sandra Simonds   "My husband calls me a 'mountain snob.'..."
March 29, 2012:   "My Francis Bacon essay" by Bob Hicok   "Francis Bacon's people have bacon faces. I want to heat them..."
March 28, 2012:   "So Toyota" by Larry Sawyer   "Jen was so Toyota as I stood there on the balcony...."
March 27, 2012:   "My Suicide" by Maggie Nelson   "A truck came, a truck..."
March 26, 2012:   "You Will Know Her Disappearance" by Janaka Stucky   "You will know her disappearance..."
March 25, 2012:   "Over and Under" by John Brehm   "So sexy to slide under..."
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison   "I claim the insignificant, the vital..."
March 23, 2012:   "Scylla" by Heidy Steidlmayer   "I marvel at the lean..."
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian   "bedecked with seaweed, polyps, knobs, and buds..."
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky   "A fleshless man doesn't need much...."
March 20, 2012:   "The Burn" by Terry Blackhawk   "I saw it once in a sycamore..."
March 19, 2012:   "The Universe is a Madam" by Catherine Pierce   "Your star-marked hair is set..."
March 18, 2012:   "Where the Hero Speaks to Others" by Wendy Xu   "Dear mailbox. I have abandoned the task. There is no more glory..."
March 17, 2012:   "The Edge of the Field" by Al Maginnes   "It was not so hard believing in the end..."
March 16, 2012:   "Homage to the Left Hand" by Bruce Bond   "Not the south paw of the left..."
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok   "Poor starling in the B concourse of Logan Airport. You do not..."
March 14, 2012:   "'La mar es una puta'" by Adam Vines   "Beside the landing, a driftwood cross refuses to age...."
March 13, 2012:   "Chocolate and the Afterlife" by Carol V. Davis   "She wrote of it as no one had: of the men who picked the pods, dried the beans..."
March 12, 2012:   "Don't Fall" by Amy Beeder   "in a derelict well or tred barefoot..."
March 11, 2012:   "The Gods of Babel" by Judith Mok   "The gods of Babel went quiet..."
March 10, 2012:   "Our Song" by William Matthews   "And when you shake your colonies of hair..."
March 9, 2012:   "Dog" by James Cummins   "We truncate what you need to be..."
March 8, 2012:   "Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney   "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."
March 7, 2012:   "Parties" by Michael Milburn   "They look so inviting..."
March 6, 2012:   "Kings Highway" by Robert W. Hill   "The sky tonight..."
March 5, 2012:   "Charmed" by Margot Schilpp   "Little statue of Ganesh: you are the Lord..."
March 4, 2012:   "Aviary" by Kristina Marie Darling   "A cold moon rises over glittering cages & you fasten..."
March 3, 2012:   "[Dead of winter for the dead.]" by Martha Carlson-Bradley   "Dead of winter for the dead...."
March 2, 2012:   "Headway beyond Fresh Kills" by Lois Marie Harrod   "What was a flagging headway of salty trees..."
March 1, 2012:   "Bromide" by Jeremy Halinen   "But there have been too many..."
February 29, 2012:   "A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar" by Mary Biddinger   "There are lines at the station..."
February 28, 2012:   "Live Light" by James Grinwis   "There are lines at the station..."
February 27, 2012:   "Frozen River, Winter Says Goodbye" by Jesse Damiani   "Ice skating. Today it's an opera...."
February 26, 2012:   "Armadillo" by Renée Ashley   "Deep in the unlit palm scrub, a rustling..."
February 25, 2012:   "[The Rooster is Perfect]" by Colleen Abel   "The rooster is perfect..."
February 24, 2012:   "Three Horses" by Susan Elizabeth Howe   "out of their pasture, as if only thistle and burrs..."
February 23, 2012:   "Talk-Talk, Ambulance Style" by Nance Van Winckel   "No, the snow did not burn you. Let's try..."
February 22, 2012:   "I tried to write the truth, but it made me miserable" by Karyna McGlynn   "like throwing a brick into a bubble-bath. I confess!..."
February 21, 2012:   "from 'Clangings'" by Steven Cramer   "Okay, here's what we did. Dad was a quark...."
February 20, 2012:   "Genealogy (rest)" by Danniel Schoonebeek   "Once I was on earth..."
February 19, 2012:   "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle   "Once I was on earth..."
February 18, 2012:   "Bedroom Life with Ceramic Frog" by Joshua Diamond   "Different from other of my lives..."
February 17, 2012:   "Epistles from the Guild of Lost Angels" by Cody Todd   "Degenerates sleep alone in cars, but we..."
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok   "'You broke my kneecaps' makes more sense..."
February 15, 2012:   "Body of Moving and Light" by Peter Streckfus   "Like a silvery fish pulled out of the dark water...."
February 14, 2012:   "Epithalamium" by Carolina Ebeid   "If a tree falls in a forest..."
February 13, 2012:   "A Prisoner of Things" by Alan Michael Parker   "If only this novel were trashier..."
February 12, 2012:   "Ode to Ink" by Lee Upton   "There has to be a heart in a book..."
February 11, 2012:   "By Virtue of And" by Jami Macarty   "Honey given : Honey taken..."
February 10, 2012:   "Possum Idyll" by Diana Lueptow   "From beyond the patio's aureole..."
February 9, 2012:   "Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood" by Anna Journey   "The hummingbird's nervous embroidery..."
February 8, 2012:   from Canto Fermo by Christopher Kondrich   "I came to an embankment..."
February 7, 2012:   "Elegy" by Heather June Gibbons   "Autumn leaves don't fall. The trees eject their dead..."
February 6, 2012:   "To The Executioner" by Malachi Black   "Your quickness is a kind..."
February 5, 2012:   "All Best" by Alan Brownjohn   "I go with the grain of foreign courtesies..."
February 4, 2012:   "The Boat with a Boy's Heart" by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton   "He was a small boy—lighter than a shrimp boat..."
February 3, 2012:   "Repartee" by Ingrid Wendt   "Choosing what not to say when each word is a step in the dark..."
February 2, 2012:   "Three kinds of sudden equal three" by Marianne Boruch   "Three kinds of sudden equal three..."
February 1, 2012:   "Fang Face" by Matt Hart   "The joy is too much, and the mouth is too..."
January 31, 2012:   "The Sprig of Rosemary" by Angela Vogel   "That life is a tiny apology is prettier than true...."
January 30, 2012:   Two poems by C. McAllister Williams   "Only monsters live in the waters. I have proof...."
January 28, 2012:   "The Identity in My Crisis" by Amy King   "This last meal could not have been my only palette..."
January 27, 2012:   "Corfu" by Neil Shepard   "Late afternoon we watch the waters change..."
January 26, 2012:   "Thames Music" by William Wenthe   "Groan of hawser as barge heaves..."
January 25, 2012:   "Just off the hummingbird highway" by Eileen Hennessy   "down a winding packed-sand road..."
January 24, 2012:   "Swath" by Stephanie E. Schlaifer   "Almost always..."
January 23, 2012:   "January" by Katharine Rauk   "She saw how the trees' shadows lay down..."
January 22, 2012:   "Sentences" by Quincy Troupe   "movement of time through the music of space..."
January 21, 2012:   "The Bees Have Not Yet Left Us" by James Crews   "With a click, morning news pours heavy into the bedroom..."
January 20, 2012:   "Listen" by Christopher Howell   "Is it an empty house, the body alone..."
January 19, 2012:   "Biography" by Amy Dryansky   "I don't remember much. A feeling of pressure...."
January 18, 2012:   "Customs of Golems" by Brad Ricca   "Fearing. disbpj682y..."
January 17, 2012:   "How to Hand Scissors or Knives to Someone You Like" by James D'Agostino   "First write the treatise on the causes of the giving..."
January 16, 2012:   "Dear So-and-So" by Monica Berlin   "Down the hall the accordion man turns into a door..."
January 15, 2012:   "Dream of the Birds" by Debora Kuan   "Live needlers of..."
January 14, 2012:   "Winter, reflected in our keen houses" by Genevieve Kaplan   "The sky is plain and the bushes thin, the walks bare..."
January 13, 2012:   "After the First Shot" by Saeed Jones   "I run the dark winter..."
January 12, 2012:   "Sleep Is Not Unlike a Waiting Room" by Michael Robins   "The dead deer is more alive to you now..."
January 11, 2012:   "Finding the Heart" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick   "Under the hydrangea, a heart..."
January 10, 2012:   "Of Genocide, or Merely Sound" by Roger Reeves   "How much saying nothing..."
January 9, 2012:   "the Theta Xi chapter" by Anne Marie Rooney   "Confer to comfort: can each girl be first..."
January 8, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Actual Animals" by Rebecca Hazelton   "It's not that the antlers pain, exactly..."
January 7, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Habitual" by Melissa Dickey   "I arrive with wind in my sweater..."
January 6, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "[20]" by Shelly Taylor   "When proxy all night I poured Jack into..."
January 5, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "'Bees see your face as a strange flower.'" by Naomi Shihab Nye   "Nashville warblers see you as a scary-looking tree...."
January 4, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Waiting Room" by Paul Hostovsky   "The woman with the portable oxygen tank..."
January 3, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Valentine" by Laurie Lamon   "In Manhattan, after wit and spar, after..."
January 2, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Calamity The Way I Think It" by Elizabeth Breese   "The radio is a brown jug..."
January 1, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Barefoot on the Pulpit" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "Backstage, we don't kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss..."
December 31, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Marriage" by Sara Michas-Martin   "One side at a time scientists paralyze the brain, then ask..."
December 30, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "City of Lavender" by Jason Bredle   "I had everything I ever wanted to say to you organized in my head..."
December 29, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano   "When God takes a man he makes a baby..."
December 28, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "zoo sonnet" by dawn lonsinger   "the veined flood did not care what the mute sang..."
December 27, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Prairie" by Sidney Wade   "everything..."
December 26, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):     "Flight, Fight Or" by Dora Malech   "Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns...."
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield   "The health survey said..."
December 24, 2011:   "Dog Days" by Oliver Bendorf   "When my camera looks up at November, it shows me..."
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis   "There goes the ink that bled this river dry...."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher   "The best idea I ever had..."
December 21, 2011:   "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney   "Day visible..."
December 20, 2011:   "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom   "He knew they'd dig up his masks..."
December 19, 2011:   "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown   "Repetition smudges in...."
December 18, 2011:   "Life on Mir" by Carole Satyamurti   "They took small fish, to observe..."
December 17, 2011:   "Nativity" by Lawrence Sail   "They will not be distracted — kings..."
December 16, 2011:   "White Stork" by Michael Waters   "Such jazzy arrhythmia..."
December 15, 2011:   "Actual Animals" by Rebecca Hazelton   "It's not that the antlers pain, exactly..."
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" by Richard Jackson   "A few deer pause inside the rain, more gauze..."
December 13, 2011:   "Problems with the Dictionary" by Luke Johnson   "Shouldn't the distance between impossible..."
December 12, 2011:   "This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side" by Aracelis Girmay   "I would not call it fear..."
December 11, 2011:   "Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound" by Jeff Alessandrelli   "Bastard sons of bastard sons build filthy nation-states in..."
December 10, 2011:   "The Severists," by Belle Randall   "Above the marble balcony, the balustrade..."
December 9, 2011:   "Mysticism in the Dark" by Mira Rosenthal   "As children we were warned not to whistle at night for fear of evil spirits...."
December 8, 2011:   "Imperfect Love Poem" by Sandra Kohler   "The day takes wing like the blackbirds..."
December 7, 2011:   "Habitual" by Melissa Dickey   "I arrive with wind in my sweater..."
December 6, 2011:   "Sea Lettuce" by Larissa Szporluk   "How easily our loved ones..."
December 5, 2011:   "Stick Your Head in the Copier" by Jessica Goodheart   "Let the light seep into your eye sockets..."
December 4, 2011:   "For This Morning" by Paul Goldman   "I am present..."
December 3, 2011:   "Midnight Winds" by Edward Byrne   "Just as dusk begins to darken..."
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan   "I enjoy a long walk on a crisp morning now..."
December 1, 2011:   "The Owl" by Sarah Stern   "What is she thinking of..."
November 30, 2011:   "Cassandra Looks at Dark Matter Through Hubble's Eye" by Robin Chapman   "Winter again, and all that futile calling out..."
November 29, 2011:   "The Gleaners" by David Moolten   "Bless the thieves, for they shall inherit..."
November 28, 2011:   "[20]" by Shelly Taylor   "When proxy all night I poured Jack into..."
November 26, 2011:   "[We Watched Ravens...]" by Killarney Clary   "We watched ravens ransack the truck-stop trashcans..."
November 25, 2011:   "He Considers What the Young Have to Teach" by Martyn Crucefix   "to stand up invisible..."
November 24, 2011:   "First, Hunger" by Lynnell Edwards   "Every morning I know your hunger...."
November 23, 2011:   "My Epicurean Curse" by Katie Chaple   "I think of what I'd like to leave you with..."
November 22, 2011:   "[7]" by Shelly Taylor   "The beach gives onlookers, men with poles. I am just trying to jog..."
November 21, 2011:   "Miner Death" by Zachary Schomburg   "This time when I come out of the mine, I step..."
November 20, 2011:   "A Box of Paperclips" by Erin Elizabeth Smith   "In some ways it's simple. Here..."
November 19, 2011:   "Downloading the Meltdown" by Elton Glaser   "Rumple of clouds at sunset, low and pink..."
November 18, 2011:   "Women's College" by Kenneth Hart   "I didn't think of myself as a sex offender..."
November 17, 2011:   "Upon Seeing the Brightly Lit" by Marc McKee   "At any given moment..."
November 16, 2011:   "Work Harder" by Carrie Oeding   "I'm tired of what I can do—..."
November 15, 2011:   "L'Etat C'Est Moi" by Ron Slate   "That's my green garden..."
November 14, 2011:   "Church" by Jim Harrison   "After last night's storm the tulip..."
November 13, 2011:   "A Shape with Forty Wings" by Luke Hankins   "Love is strange and calls me to stranger things...."
November 12, 2011:   "Poem Asleep" by William Stobb   "Native flora regain their dominance..."
November 11, 2011:   "Contra Chekhov" by Michael Salcman   "The gun never went off: not in the first act, not in the second..."
November 10, 2011:   "Clean" by Matthew Guenette   "There was an octopus in the fish..."
November 9, 2011:   "Mrs. P. Goes House-Hunting" by Alexandra van de Kamp   "Buzz, buzz, buzz goes the world. We are each in a distortion of our own making...."
November 8, 2011:   "Grocery Night" by William Olsen   "I have seen nothing that hasn't already been..."
November 7, 2011:   "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg   "My species has one for nouns..."
November 6, 2011:   "In Defense of Poverty" by Ocean Vuong   "We lost our way in that forgotten city...."
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney   "Everyone in Goya's black paintings was mad. It's true; they grazed..."
November 4, 2011:   "Coffin Tree" by Adam Fell   "Somewhere in the national forest..."
November 3, 2011:   "Knickerbocker" by L. S. Klatt   "Suppose a man steps out of the fog..."
November 2, 2011:   "Man as Walnut" by Susanna Childress   "Head thrown back, he cries, is not ashamed..."
November 1, 2011:   "A Thing of Beauty" by Mike White   "I want my goldfish..."
October 31, 2011:   "Koi Pond in Slow Motion" by Alexander Long   "They move under ice as thin as a bible's paper...."
October 30, 2011:   "Limit" by George Bradley   "Beast put to pasture does not feed..."
October 29, 2011:   "Archaeology" by Michele Wolf   "The storm had bitten away the shoreline..."
October 28, 2011:   "Birdhouse" by Anna Woodford   "You fiddle with the catch..."
October 27, 2011:   "Earthbound" by James Grinwis   "Big sky flexion..."
October 26, 2011:   "Syrens" by Stuart Bartow   "Often they are described as twain, but who thinks..."
October 25, 2011:   "Fooling the Buffalo" by David Hernandez   "A buffalo could outrun a lion, could outlast..."
October 24, 2011:   "North of North" by James Haug   "When I passed on the road a stranger..."
October 23, 2011:   "Music & Story" by Tom Holmes   "The cave has its sound as I have mine..."
October 22, 2011:   "Oracle" by Dean Young   "I find myself more and more among..."
October 21, 2011:   "The Divider" by Janice N. Harrington   "Drop the thermometer in its dough...."
October 20, 2011:   "What the Mapmaker Knows" by Mary Jo Bang   "O is the ocean and t the consequence..."
October 19, 2011:   "Anthem" by Michael Robins   "I had yet imagined a stream fed in feather...."
October 18, 2011:   "For Soren" by Noelle Kocot   "Smell of grass colliding with the..."
October 17, 2011:   "Beggar's Cup" by Jack Myers   "I'm slowing down now..."
October 16, 2011:   "City Rain" by Linda Lerner   "For days, rain blasting away..."
October 15, 2011:   "'Bees see your face as a strange flower.'" by Naomi Shihab Nye   "Nashville warblers see you as a scary-looking tree...."
October 14, 2011:   "Assault on Precinct 13" by Andrew Kozma   "Please come in, this town is closed. Roadblocks cinch the arteries..."
October 13, 2011:   "Waiting Room" by Paul Hostovsky   "The woman with the portable oxygen tank..."
October 12, 2011:   "Valentine" by Laurie Lamon   "In Manhattan, after wit and spar, after..."
October 11, 2011:   "Haiku (Failed)" by Nick Flynn   "The thin thread that hold us here, tethered / or maybe tied, together..."
October 10, 2011:   "At This Hour" by Carol Ann Davis   "Say I am not wrong to want the two finches who ring out...."
October 9, 2011:   "Scene: Interior, Night" by Elizabeth Austen   "one thin wall a narrow world away..."
October 8, 2011:   "Ancestors" by Anthony Thwaite   "My father traced our ancestors for years..."
October 7, 2011:   "Students Painting in the Community Garden on Newark Street" by Elizabeth Poliner   "Standing scattered..."
October 6, 2011:   "under one box another box" by Michael Teig   "I head off like an inventory..."
October 5, 2011:   "School is a Sculpture Called Soft" by Daniel Coudriet   "I'd been growing sod under manholebpj682s..."
October 4, 2011:   "The Door" by Adam Wyeth   "I sit in the garden..."
October 3, 2011:   "As Far As I Know" by Allan Peterson   "As far as I know is not that far..."
October 2, 2011:   "After Us" by Nikola Madzirov   "One day someone will fold our blankets..."
October 1, 2011:   "Luna Moth" by Jeff Friedman   "I thought it was a bat, looking for trouble..."
September 30, 2011:   "I am weatherly and so" by Jody Rambo   "I am weatherly and so when I must fix myself in time, I choose..."
September 29, 2011:   "Till It Sticks" by Michael Teig   "They wooden hut. They walk backwards...."
September 28, 2011:   "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock   "We snag cabs and drift through the middle..."
September 27, 2011:   "After the Fever: A Pastoral" by Wayne Miller   "After four months, the fever withdrew into her..."
September 26, 2011:   "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch   "Time. A great board game played on flat sand..."
September 25, 2011:   "Migrating, Swallows, Assateague" by Matthew J. Spireng   "It was not a matter of individuals, though..."
September 24, 2011:   "Uninvited Guest" by Elizabeth Knapp   "Mid-September. First turn of the maples..."
September 23, 2011:   "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton   "I'm having trouble understanding the wife...."
September 22, 2011:   "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel   "My silence grants the rowers..."
September 21, 2011:   "The Sea" by George Keithley   "Helpless her hands lose hold, slip away...."
September 20, 2011:   "Cat" by Kate Northrop   "Now do you see what I mean?..."
September 19, 2011:   "Pura Vida in Costa Rica" by Sarah Stern   "How does the light change red bricks..."
September 18, 2011:   "Not Whiskey" by Drew Blanchard   "At dusk—west of Patch Grove—..."
September 17, 2011:   "Hitching Tuam Road" by Joseph Lennon   "I found a rhythm of walking today..."
September 16, 2011:   "Halloween" by Christopher Salerno   "You were a white cocoon shot through with gravel...."
September 15, 2011:   "I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable" by John Estes   "Perhaps after all it is, merely, a desire..."
September 14, 2011:   "Tips of the Slung" by Amy Schrader   "Let's free associate, my friend: your bat..."
September 13, 2011:   "'Mania Klepto'" by Carolyne Wright   "Eulene never comes to shoplift..."
September 12, 2011:   "Crowd Forming a Mob" by C.J. Sage   "Before the egg shop closed..."
September 11, 2011:   "Joy" by Julie L. Moore   "Fireflies flashing over hip-high corn..."
September 10, 2011:   "The Elephant in the Room" by Kim Bridgford   "Choose another way to conduct yourself...."
September 9, 2011:   "Evening Twilight" by David Trinidad   "Of sea and wind, and through the deepening gloom..."
September 8, 2011:   "To Sleep" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "not as a woman who brews tea and kneels..."
September 7, 2011:   "Camera Lucida" by Joshua Diamond   "From this angle you've a rooster on your shoulder..."
September 6, 2011:   "Like a Machine, Struggle for Mother" by Andrea Baker   "I speak and God licks the wine from me...."
September 5, 2011:   "The Book of the Dead Man (Rhino)" by Marvin Bell   "The dead man rode a rhino into Congress...."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" by G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher   "The bridge is dreaming again...."
September 3, 2011:   "Calamity The Way I Think It" by Elizabeth Breese   "The radio is a brown jug..."
September 2, 2011:   "What the Camera Says to the Voice" by Suzanne Wise   "Going public becomes you...."
September 1, 2011:   "Arrows" by Bruce Bond   "Every thrill in us creates unease..."
August 31, 2011:   "The Field of Mars" by Benjamin Paloff   "Too many marches and formations, lectures on conditions..."
August 30, 2011:   "A Series of Movements:" by Daniel Khalastchi   "And with each step tile..."
August 29, 2011:   "So When She Looks at Her Reflection" by Patty Seyburn   "If there is an anteroom..."
August 28, 2011:   "The Room and The Road" by Jane Duran   "River I cannot swim from..."
August 27, 2011:   "New Sparrow, New Sorrow" by Matthew Henriksen   "Moon burnt up in a tree limb's wobble...."
August 26, 2011:   "White-throated Sparrow" by Nancy Eimers   "Made by trees..."
August 25, 2011:   "Found" by Stephanie Levin   "I'd like to be who I am with her all the time. So brilliant..."
August 24, 2011:   "Alley" by Jeffery L. Bahr   "The optimist arrived and said to the men..."
August 23, 2011:   "Dog Days" by Matthew Guenette   "It was so hot..."
August 21, 2011:   "Enlistment" by Joshua Edwards   "I was chosen for my knowledge..."
August 20, 2011:   "A Poet" by Lee Rossi   "He has a boy's gift for error..."
August 19, 2011:   "Peccadillo" by Scott Minar   "When I talk about my family..."
August 18, 2011:   "The Narrows" by Christopher DeWeese   "The water oh the sounds..."
August 17, 2011:   "The Horses" by Rachel Richardson   "Under the live oak, and out along the stretch..."
August 16, 2011:   "Following Him on Twitter" by Philip Fried   "A man or a woman, afraid with any sudden..."
August 15, 2011:   "The Final Amnesia" by Dana Curtis   "The gardeners have decided..."
August 14, 2011:   "On Cold Days Like These" by Kevin Pilkington   "I hear a cape flapping over..."
August 13, 2011:   "Trapeze Swinger" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "and sprung now..."
August 12, 2011:   "The Gallery" by Annie Lighthart   "Van Gogh stood in the rain at Saint Rémy..."
August 11, 2011:   "The Seastack" by Christopher DeWeese   "I walked out there..."
August 10, 2011:   "Diane Arbus" by Justin Vicari   "submerged the prints in their chemical..."
August 9, 2011:   "Visions of the Divine on Hare Island" by Stephen Murray   "Slapped back upon the heels..."
August 8, 2011:   "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star" by Mary Biddinger   "Maybe they were both the wrong star...."
August 7, 2011:   "The Man with a Green Face" by Tamura Ryuichi (translated by Christopher Drake)   "It was a beautiful morning..."
August 6, 2011:   "Notes on How to Love a Boy" by Lauren Berry   "My mother left handwritten notes..."
August 5, 2011:   "And A Third Autumn" by Leah Goldberg (translated by Annie Kantar)   "Thistle. Bramble. Stones. I crossed..."
August 4, 2011:   "Near Miss" by Michael Chitwood   "It's a hands-in-your-coat-pockets-stroll kind of a day...."
August 3, 2011:   "The Pier" by Christopher DeWeese   "There is no amusement..."
August 2, 2011:   "Tomb Figurine" by Dan Beachy-Quick   "Retrograde mind: Beehive: Yesterday's drone..."
August 1, 2011:   "The Estate of Single Blessedness" by Mary Ruefle   "In this room..."
July 31, 2011:   "Poultry Chronical" by Michael Teig   "My chicken has pointy ears..."
July 30, 2011:   "World Cup" by Tom Sleigh   "In all the cafes..."
July 29, 2011:   "Giant Slayer Man" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "Rifling brochures..."
July 28, 2011:   "Dust" by Michael Meyerhofer   "It seems we've left skin..."
July 27, 2011:   "I,Putative" by Geri Doran   "Barer than January maples, bare abandoned hives..."
July 26, 2011:   "The Trapeze Artist's Dear John Letter" by Carrie Etter   "I recede like a vanishing point on my ribboned trapeze..."
July 24, 2011:   "The Plan" by Arthur Vogelsang   "The prudent carry an extra oarlock and make a will..."
July 23, 2011:   "The Keys to the Jail" by Keetje Kuipers   "It's the second day of spring...."
July 22, 2011:   "Outage" by John Barr   "Our dogs in the sudden silence raise..."
July 21, 2011:   "The Birthdays of Ex-Lovers" by Michael Meyerhofer   "How they pinball through the mind..."
July 20, 2011:   "Drone & Buck" by Katrina Roberts   "Where in the continent of heart..."
July 19, 2011:   "EStonia" by Jeff Hoffman   "Her brother's Plymouth..."
July 18, 2011:   "On a Walk" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "I wonder if we've taken..."
July 17, 2011:   "The Development of Mathmatics" by Stan Mir   "As it is now, you're back from fishing...."
July 16, 2011:   "Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   "Better to be the lover than the beloved, you'll have passion...."
July 15, 2011:   "Nightmare for the Last Night on Earth" by Brian Barker   "Through the hole in the back of my head..."
July 14, 2011:   "Untranslatable" by Rebecca Dunham   "The mourning lily's..."
July 13, 2011:   "With a big simile" by Muriel Nelson   "she wrote he warped his arms around me..."
July 12, 2011:   "Absent Absence" by Stephen Malin   "Unexpected and interrupting..."
July 11, 2011:   "To a Soldier" by Carol Muske-Duke   "Imagine it: a world away, Autumn...."
July 10, 2011:   "The Sea" by Michael Dickman   "Everyone's first memory..."
July 9, 2011:   "The Giants" by Maxine Scates   "Out here, all darkness, stars overhead..."
July 8, 2011:   "Navigating by the Light of a Minor Planet" by Jessica Goodfellow   "The trouble with belief in endlessness is..."
July 7, 2011:   "Barefoot on the Pulpit" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "Backstage, we don't kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss..."
July 6, 2011:   "To Bear" by Mary Quade   "The polar bear is threatened..."
July 5, 2011:   "The Fifth of July" by Jeff Simpson   "Kids down the street pop leftover firecrackers..."
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood   "The rowboats are all tucked in..."
July 3, 2011:   "The Consulting Room" by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu   "How is your breathing asked..."
July 2, 2011:   "Love, the English Teacher" by Lois Marie Harrod   "Love, the English teacher, grades the snow...."
July 1, 2011:   "Om Nom" by Alex Lemon   "These blistery days cloak so amazingly..."
June 30, 2011:   "Flight" by Camille T. Dungy   "It is the day after the leaves, when buckeyes..."
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams   "People can remove themselves from us...."
June 28, 2011:   "Letter to Laundry on the Line" by Russ Kesler   "Letter to Laundry on the Line..."
June 27, 2011:   Two poems by Charles Rafferty   "It is cloudless and moonless and breezeless..."
June 26, 2011:   "Medusa of Libya" by Iain Haley Pollock   "he used my ugliness against me. no..."
June 25, 2011:   "Hunger Strike" by Kristine Ong Muslim   "Strange how we do not alter ourselves..."
June 24, 2011:   "Noye's Fludde" by Anne Pitkin   "Onstage, they are shaking the firmament, two at each end...."
June 23, 2011:   "The Commendation" by Dean Young   "We had no choice but to live..."
June 21, 2011:   "The Helicopters" by William Virgil Davis   "We hear them before we see..."
June 20, 2011:   "To My Translator" by Marsha Pomerantz   "Maybe the lunge to the sideward, your..."
June 19, 2011:   "Your Lingual Heart" by Jeffrey Greene   "Friday night at the ER..."
June 18, 2011:   "Marriage" by Sara Michas-Martin   "One side at a time scientists paralyze the brain, then ask..."
June 17, 2011:   "Living on Earth" by Elizabeth Raby   "Desperate for a drink..."
June 16, 2011:   "Devotion: For Our Bodies" by Brett Foster   "Yes love, I must confess I'm at it again..."
June 15, 2011:   "Speculation" by Derek Mong   "Have I cornered you, my self, again..."
June 14, 2011:   "Overture to a Legend" by Bridget Talone   "The only person I ever wanted..."
June 13, 2011:   "Is This Why Love Almost Rhymes with Dumb?" by Dean Young   "In love there's many obstacles..."
June 12, 2011:   "Svendborg Sound" by Rich Hilles   "All May, and everywhere..."
June 11, 2011:   "How Shedding Feathers Taught The Children to Make a Kite..." by Rob Carney   "A boy and a girl, then a dozen more..."
June 10, 2011:   "I Don't Mind the Mess that Comes from Pressing Hard..." by Matt Mauch   "I can tell the sky that for nine years I listened..."
June 9, 2011:   "True Latitude" by Matthew Nienow   "When I lie to you it sounds..."
June 8, 2011:   "Ghosts That Need Reminding" by Dana Levin   "Through shattered glass and sheeted furniture, chicken..."
June 7, 2011:   "The confession of an apricot" by Carl Adamshick   "I love incorrectly...."
June 6, 2011:   "On Buffers" by Elizabeth Robinson   "Each one knows herself by her fat, the insulation of the idea..."
June 5, 2011:   "Light Away Now" by Matt Cozart   "What to find: a little well..."
June 4, 2011:   "God Has Put You on Hold" by Kevin Higgins   "And the world has no room..."
June 3, 2011:   "Granada" by Joanne Diaz   "To be so far from oxtail stew, sardines..."
June 2, 2011:   "Coupled" by Lisa Lewis   "The neck’s crest bridges to the pricked ears...."
June 1, 2011:   "Farm Woman and Her Children, 1920-1925" by Adam Kirsch   "The chain of flowers that runs along the hem..."
May 31, 2011:   "From Mars" by Matthew Rohrer   "We have some sad news..."
May 30, 2011:   "Fog" by Dorianne Laux   "The first of us must have looked up at the night agog..."
May 29, 2011:   "Remedial Weeding" by Julie Hanson   "You don't need to know its name..."
May 28, 2011:   "Heirloom" by Nikky Finney   "Sundown, the day nearly eaten away..."
May 27, 2011:   "'Never Let Your Reader's Attention Wander.'" by Ron Koertge   "In Cat People, Oliver marries Irena, but she says they can't..."
May 26, 2011:   "David Bowie Esperanto" by Jim Daniels   "A flash of metal trash in a vacant lot...."
May 25, 2011:   "Actually Present" by Paul Killebrew   "I don't remember you, but you keep..."
May 24, 2011:   "City of Lavender" by Jason Bredle   "I had everything I ever wanted to say to you organized in my head..."
May 23, 2011:   "Flowers, For Frank" by Larry Sawyer   "When a friend died..."
May 22, 2011:   "Awake" by Michael Heffernan   "I lay down in my bed and went to sleep..."
May 21, 2011:   "She Walks on Water" by Michelle McGrane   "The air is heavy with salt spray and kelp...."
May 20, 2011:   "Girl Under Bug Zapper" by Caki Wilkinson   "This haywire night, she's back from church..."
May 19, 2011:   "Feast Day" by James Doyle   "The town by the hundreds..."
May 18, 2011:   "Flight Log" by Jim Daniels   "The prop plane tilts a wing..."
May 17, 2011:   "Love poem" by Laura Kasischke   "The water glass. The rain. The scale..."
May 16, 2011:   "Bone Fires" by Mark Jarman   "The manikin's head is filled with water so..."
May 15, 2011:   "News Says" by Stacie Leatherman   "Scientists hotwire pigeon..."
May 14, 2011:   "After The Music Went Home" by Jaimee Kuperman   "It's nice to think that somewhere the winters are returning...."
May 13, 2011:   "Nostalgic" by Paula Bohince   "Jar of feathers becoming..."
May 12, 2011:   "His Eye" by Penelope Scambly Schott   "Somewhere where terrible things happen..."
May 11, 2011:   "Dublin" by Rachel Bennett   "People caution, "Dublin..."
May 10, 2011:   "The Yellow House as God" by Robin Behn   "Saffron cube comets lick..."
May 9, 2011:   "Primitives" by Ravi Shankar   "Banish the glaze of objects from the firmament..."
May 8, 2011:   "The Acquisition of the Senses" by Alice Notley   "They, too, wandered in darkness, crying out for a home in the body of mercy...."
May 7, 2011:   "Wild Mint" by Simmons B. Buntin   "Did you know that in my hand-sized guide you are shelved..."
May 6, 2011:   "My Flimsy Crew" by James Grinwis   "They're in the boat and the boat..."
May 5, 2011:   "Old Boys" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz   "I would've never believed that I'd forget you..."
May 4, 2011:   "Hooker Avenue Serenade" by Joshua Harmon   "An aluminum box fan in a window..."
May 3, 2011:   "Epithalamium" by Gregory Fraser   "They will say you go together like a lid..."
May 2, 2011:   "Jubilee Rotation" by Marc McKee   "Let's face it: the gods we chase into the decay of dusk..."
May 1, 2011:   "Blue for Oceans" by Charles Douthat   "Astonishing that he could forget and forget and remember so...."
April 30, 2011:   "The Bees" by Maureen A. Sherbondy   "Those bees you crushed..."
April 29, 2011:   "The Tooth Ministry" by Janet Kaplan   "Cuddle me, says Vastwing. Hold my hand. Give me a..."
April 28, 2011:   "Erasure" by Ralph Angel   "I don't want you to know about any of this...."
April 27, 2011:   "The Folly of Mercutio in a Pacifist Town" by Phoebe Reeves   "The emperor moth battles the emperor..."
April 26, 2011:   "Summons" by Sandra Kohler   "Surprise always, the day wakes us, the dream..."
April 25, 2011:   "Aggressive Pesto Warfare" by T.A. Noonan   "Nothing is worth hoarding but basil..."
April 24, 2011:   "The Hum of Imagined Bees" by Jane O. Wayne   "Some non-stop motor..."
April 23, 2011:   "Taking Leave" by Gail Hanlon   "Like most love poems..."
April 22, 2011:   "Millificent" by Emma Trelles   "No one has entered..."
April 21, 2011:   "Start" by Ryan Flaherty   "Start at either end of a history...."
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer   "So I left my apartment, got down where..."
April 19, 2011:   "Getting Serious" by Alice Friman   "Today I started looking for my soul...."
April 18, 2011:   "Why I'm Not Coming to My Funeral" by Sue D. Burton   "You don't want me there...."
April 17, 2011:   "Nocturne: Redaction" by John Casteen   "Tonight I hear machines at their dark work in the dark, I understand..."
April 16, 2011:   "The Red Pool" by Ron Padgett   "Oh dear here we are again in a pool of blood..."
April 15, 2011:   "I Want You Dangerously" by Danielle Cadena Deulen   "open. But I am a woman, so cannot..."
April 14, 2011:   "The Crowd at the Gates" by Stephen Dunn   "The crowd had gathered by the gates...."
April 13, 2011:   "A solitude of the ear buoys the breath's answer" by Joshua Corey   "A solitude of the ear buoys the breath's answer..."
April 12, 2011:   "Spun" by Anna Maria Hong   "The very people are not very nice...."
April 11, 2011:   "Calla lily, shameless" by Sandra Gilbert   "hussy flaunting..."
April 10, 2011:   "Memorial Sonnet" by Stephen Gibson   "This is for the bruised eye, the swollen lip..."
April 9, 2011:   "Beach" by Emily Kendal Frey   "Wants the heavier shoulder...."
April 8, 2011:   "Island in Dispute Disappears into the Sea" by William D. Waltz   "We're not so different..."
April 7, 2011:   "Self-Portrait as a Child's Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" by Tom C. Hunley   "Often I'm a musical instrument..."
April 6, 2011:   "Foolproof" by William Trowbridge   "Just turn it on, when I tell you to," says God..."
April 5, 2011:   "The Real World is Like This:" by Esther Lee   "My sister's bed's a bird's nest, all edges..."
April 4, 2011:   "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano   "When God takes a man he makes a baby..."
April 3, 2011:   "Figures" by Maurice Harmon   "In front of me a table rock in three segments..."
April 2, 2011:   "Scarecrow Woman" by Noel Monahan   "I catch sight of her on a sea of wheat..."
April 1, 2011:   "A Bad Break" by Paul Dickey   "Lou Gehrig is crying. Lou Gehrig is crying for every story in New York..."
March 31, 2011:   "To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall" by Lucia Perillo   "Half costume jewel, half parasite, you stood..."
March 30, 2011:   "Dear Fringe" by Erin Murphy   "Jangle on a flapper..."
March 29, 2011:   "How it Happened" by Chelsea Rathburn   "I blame that little village in Spain..."
March 28, 2011:   "zoo sonnet" by dawn lonsinger   "the veined flood did not care what the mute sang..."
March 27, 2011:   "High Rise" by Les Murray   "Fawn high rise of Beijing..."
March 26, 2011:   "The sparrows gather nearby..." by David Harris Ebenbach   "The sparrows gather nearby..."
March 25, 2011:   "[Without Objectivity]" by Maxine Chernoff   "the hundred voices..."
March 24, 2011:   "Prairie" by Sidney Wade   "everything..."
March 23, 2011:   "In the Early Morning in the Cypress Grove" by Michael Schiavo   "The man has announced we cannot go on..."
March 22, 2011:   "Ficus" by Gregory Fraser   "The morning you left, I pretended..."
March 21, 2011:   "The String" by Corey Marks   "unspools someone's..."
March 20, 2011:   "Circle of Life" by Noelle Kocot   "Nobody loved Jim, but that..."
March 19, 2011:   "Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91" by L. S. Klatt   "A weathered barn on a hilltop; a nude woman..."
March 18, 2011:   "The Listening of Plants" by Laura Shovan   "On the buffet where she kept her celadon dishes..."
March 17, 2011:   "Red Salmon" by David Dodd Lee   "You could relent a little..."
March 16, 2011:   "Love Song for an Enemy" by Elaine Equi   "I love you..."
March 15, 2011:   "Detachable" by Jenna Cardinale   "The elk's antlers grow..."
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms..."
March 13, 2011:   "When he left, how many birds did he leave?" by Jessica Young   "When he left, he left one bird. He left one bird..."
March 12, 2011:   "Plants Retake the Sidewalk" by Cynthia Hardy   "Chamomile, leaves bunched and feathery..."
March 11, 2011:   "Magnolia Blossom" by Peter Pereira   "Who knew so many shades of white..."
March 10, 2011:   "Elegy as a Red Dress" by Victoria Chang   "We open our red dresses..."
March 9, 2011:   "March" by Mary Madec   "The month of raw..."
March 8, 2011:   "Ascent" by Mary Austin Speaker   "Triangulation means..."
March 7, 2011:   "Aspirin and Shadow" by Chris Forhan   "Moon I swallow at dawn..."
March 6, 2011:   "Fighting" by Michael Cirelli   "Since the time when..."
March 5, 2011:   "One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds" by Jeff Tigchelaar   "A black cat crossing your path is bad for luck, it's said...."
March 4, 2011:   "Feral Evening" by Doug Ramspeck   "Not the bats diving..."
March 3, 2011:   "Sufficiency" by Zach Savich   "Things being increasingly maintenance, leaf..."
March 2, 2011:   "Instructions for Vigilant Girls" by Erika Meitner   "Be the sleeping sister who sees no one...."
March 1, 2011:   "The Applicant [4]" by Uljana Wolf   "blew the interview. Cracked window..."
February 28, 2011:   "The Point of a Ship in a Bottle is the Bottle" by Martin Arnold   "The Chihuahua's courage..."
February 27, 2011:   "A Sunday to Her Liking" by J. Patrick Lewis   "She was propped on the prow..."
February 26, 2011:   "Love and the Eye" by Laura Newbern   "There you are: a sudden head..."
February 25, 2011:   "scalawag" by Uljana Wolf (translated by Ute Schwartz)   "that old toad in my throat..."
February 24, 2011:   "While You Were Away" by Richard Jackson   "Sleeves of sunset hung empty over the brown hills...."
February 23, 2011:   "Fountain of the Planet of the Apes" by Matthew Ladd   "One by one, they pulled themselves from the water..."
February 22, 2011:   "The Writer" by Anne Pierson Wiese   "People in the neighborhood called him The Writer..."
February 21, 2011:   "Grass" by Chris Preddle   "The grass anticipates the cows..."
February 20, 2011:   "She Has Never Known" by Linnea Johnson   "She has never known when to leave well enough alone..."
February 19, 2011:   "The White Doves of Mazar" by Timothy McBride   "For crusts of bread..."
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle   "What went on when I suddenly understood him..."
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" by Richard Jackson   "I could feel a few dying stars hovering over my shoulder..."
February 16, 2011:   "Hello, Kickstand" by Julia Cohen   "Insect recipes & a performance pitted..."
February 15, 2011:   "The Way We Go On" by Charles Gillispie   "Your hot bath and talcum..."
February 14, 2011:   "Valentine for You" by Robert Creeley   "Where from, where to..."
February 13, 2011:   "Suppose You Were a Moray Eel" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   "when ancient Romans kept glass aquariums filled to bubbling with your..."
February 12, 2011:   "March 22, 2000, at This Stone" by Tom Holmes   "This man who mumbles..."
February 11, 2011:   "Animal Dark" by Sally Rosen Kindred   "There is no sleep in the ark...."
February 10, 2011:   "Pastoral" by Michael Glaviano   "On the tracks you can die from two directions..."
February 9, 2011:   "Laryngitis" by Philip Dacey   "I had nothing interesting to say anyway...."
February 8, 2011:   "Interview: Antique Iron Bed" by Landon Godfrey   "Why don't we call..."
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern   "You could either go back to the canary..."
February 6, 2011:   "Gallant Phantoms through the Pineapple Door" by Travis Nichols   "The cranes were silhouettes that night, thousands..."
February 5, 2011:   "You and I, the Cranes, the River" by Marjorie Saiser   "The cranes were silhouettes that night, thousands..."
February 4, 2011:   "Cost of It" by Veronica Golos   "Go beyond the past tense into the present...."
February 3, 2011:   "Pulse" by Stacy Kidd   "This is not how hearts begin..."
February 2, 2011:   "Angel of Erosion" by Dean Young   "Grows pale the dulcet gizmo..."
February 1, 2011:   "Beginning" by Eva Tihanyi   "You begin somewhere, perhaps..."
January 31, 2011:   "Axioms" by Barbara Perez   "We are parallel lines, an exponential bloom..."
January 30, 2011:   "Cursing Pot" by Katrina Roberts   "Mired I was on that steep fuzzed bank where the fence..."
January 29, 2011:   "Love Poem" by Milan Djordjevic, translated by Charles Simic   "My dear Nothing..."
January 28, 2011:   "Romanticism" by Ashley Elizabeth Hudson   "Held the telescope to your eye..."
January 27, 2011:   "Valentine with broken birds" by Joni Wallace   "Enclosed find pieces of the starling flown flat..."
January 26, 2011:   "Flight, Fight Or" by Dora Malech   "Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns...."
January 25, 2011:   "Late December" by Daniele Pantano   "Clearly. Nothing much is happening. Kids continue to wish...."
January 24, 2011:   "Horses Running Fast" by Shane McCrae   "We married in an open field a wide..."
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney   "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."
January 22, 2011:   "From the Undergrowth" by Jeannine Savard   "New roses flush in the serein..."
January 21, 2011:   "Well, I Still Have My Teeth, And That's Not Nothing" by Charles Wright   "The twilight reveals the edges at play in pitch..."
January 20, 2011:   "Gacela of Twilight Bats" by J.P. Dancing Bear   "The twilight reveals the edges at play in pitch..."
January 19, 2011:   "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace   "There's not much to do..."
January 18, 2011:   "Leaf at the End" by Lily Brown   "I climbed a giant leaf at the end..."
January 17, 2011:   "Love Song" by Jon Wilkins   "Words leapt from your mouth then..."
January 15, 2011:   "This Far Away" by Howard Wright   "Absolutes of water and atmosphere wait for us..."
January 14, 2011:   "Today It Seemed I Had Nothing to Say" by Todd Boss   "that hadn't been said already..."
January 13, 2011:   "Release the Sterile Moths" by D.A. Powell   "The flutter, apple brown, invites..."
January 12, 2011:   "Song" by Debra Kang Dean   "Goldfinches—they were..."
January 11, 2011:   "Ocean Beach at TwiIight: 14" by Dean Rader   "Who's to say the stars understand..."
January 10, 2011:   "Farsickness" by Megan Harlan   "Imagine a love turned out..."
January 9, 2011:   "The Adriatic Sea" by Zachary Harris   "A bell-shrouded town; town around a steeple, strafed..."
January 8, 2011:   "Feeding the Birds" by Susan Rothbard   "I wanted them to come. Wanted cardinals..."
January 7, 2011:   "Late" by Sidney Wade   "our summer..."
January 6, 2011:   "Dictator" by Melissa Stein   "The quail are back: the big quail..."
January 5, 2011:   "The Hatching" by Kate Daniels   "Burning in our twin scarlet fevers..."
January 4, 2011:   "The Feather, an Optical Sorrow" by Eric Beeny   "The feather..."
January 3, 2011:   "Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" by Mary Ruefle   "Because I open my mouth too wide..."
January 2, 2011 (A 2010 Favorite):   "The Exquisite Foreplay of the Tortoise" by Nicky Beer   "Every movement of my body..."
January 1, 2011 (A 2010 Favorite):   "Ice Plant" by Rae Gouirand   "All the transparence of the old..."