Online Exclusives
12.13.07
From The Reserve
If Bear had been a girl, Jordan would have named her Puma. Wolf he would have named Peregrine. He said he wanted his children to be inspired all their lives to live up to what they were called. [...]
12.06.07
Two Poems
by Mark Irwin
long, jointed bones, floating like a bird’s, prehistoric, knuckling
in their brightness, as if to perform some magic trick, to pull
a kerchief from the debut of darkness, I feel dangerous [...]
in their brightness, as if to perform some magic trick, to pull
a kerchief from the debut of darkness, I feel dangerous [...]
11.29.07
Acquiescence
by Nick Kocz
Roving packs of five-year olds roam the overgrown lots by the abandoned steel mills. [...]
11.09.07
The Pool House
Every once in awhile, another ghost moves into the pool house. They like it there, curled up behind the floats and tucked into inner tubes, since it's January and nobody uses the pool house in January. [...]
11.02.07
From Sonnet 56
by Paul Hoover
Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite [...]
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite [...]
10.25.07
Three Poems
by Eric Linsker
Moon: what the earth does not know
Light: what the earth does not know
Light: what the moon does not know
Moon: the grasses! [...]
Light: what the earth does not know
Light: what the moon does not know
Moon: the grasses! [...]
10.18.07
Year of the Bird
On the seventh day of the seventh month, Golden Bird Chinese Food opens its doors [...]
10.11.07
Two Elegies
Saturday, a fawn wing sung of women and of woods:
“We heap the pearls, we loose the ground,
and some go godward with a rose.” [...]
“We heap the pearls, we loose the ground,
and some go godward with a rose.” [...]
10.04.07
Objects of the Visible Language
09.27.07
The Other Walk
This morning, going against all convention, I turned right instead of left and took my circuit—one of my circuits—in reverse. [...]
09.13.07
Draft 85: Hard Copy
One nano-second later and
a snarl of light that crashed to the floor binds one
to the terrors of historical time. [...]
a snarl of light that crashed to the floor binds one
to the terrors of historical time. [...]
09.06.07
The Pool
And it’s not all of us who run, who surround, who slip in or charge or surge. [...]
08.30.07
From Wave Offering
08.16.07
Three Poems
by Julia Cohen
Comb the chrysalis from your beard to fasten the milkweed
Rather your eyes be matted with Queen Ann’s lace than pill blisters scatter the sink [...]
Rather your eyes be matted with Queen Ann’s lace than pill blisters scatter the sink [...]
08.09.07
The Slide Turned on End
O’Hara claimed he glanced at a work of abstract art—a Kandinsky, he thinks—and was immediately struck by how similar it was to some of the rare amoebas he was working with at the time. [...]
08.02.07
Influenza, Mother of God
We ought to search for Lil when the woods have thinned for winter. Then, even in bitter light, the curve of her skull, phalanges, a tibia might be easier to see among the scatter of branches. [...]
07.26.07
Five Poems
07.19.07
Three Fictions
Perhaps three days’ journey south, southwest, across a salt desert leading to an ancient wood dense with black cypress and a strain of ivy so fierce its creeping roots are said to choke even the soil it feeds upon, lies Cieloso, city of floating men and women. [...]
07.12.07
Elegy for the Sentence
by Tasha Haas
I remembered the sentence when I saw the old man and woman walking on the shore the man with a plank for a leg a war having kept the leg. [...]
07.05.07
Notebook A: Notes on Wakefulness and Being
by Ellen Hinsey
The body resists its knowledge of oneness—as if to exist it must renounce that from which it was issued. [...]
06.21.07
An Interview
I had a great deal of trouble getting started. I don’t know whether I was afraid or just thought I was bullshitting the world and myself. [...]
06.14.07
Four Poems
The moon is the kind of birthplace who,
if in the process of blooming
a fine son stopped pressing his shirts [...]
if in the process of blooming
a fine son stopped pressing his shirts [...]
06.07.07
Four Poems
05.23.07
A Hill in Spain
On our honeymoon, I caught a stomach bug in Spain and, for the long day leading up to Easter, for Easter itself, and for the day after it, I spent most of my time in the hotel bathroom [...]
05.09.07
Major Nixon
Rob Nixon, do you remember me? You invited me on base. You wanted to show off the cool splat ball setup and maybe trade notes on the missing. [...]
05.02.07
They Found the Claw and Hung from It Chimes
The Aztec baby came in on the back of the wolf. [...]
04.25.07
The Devil, A Digression
The Devil has black tangled hair. He eats only the meat of dogs or goats. He is capable of showing you small examples of miracles. The Devil prefers the smell of violet. [...]
04.11.07
Paul Klee
How to compose a question: To spell the word blue
in Paul Klee’s painting entitled Paul Klee’s The Color Blue [...]
in Paul Klee’s painting entitled Paul Klee’s The Color Blue [...]
04.04.07
The Other Borges: A Fiction
by Carlos Dews
The encounter I will describe here occurred in the Buenos Aires mid-winter of 2004; it has taken me until now to muster the courage to recount it and to conclude, as the gentleman involved insisted, that it contains a story that must be told. [...]
03.28.07
Is It Twice as Big?
03.21.07
Two Poems
The water needs a forder. Otherwise there’s no cutting through to something other. Other than the water. [...]
03.14.07
A Map of Her Town
The knife recurs as a figure in certain rooms. Take the parlor, where the matron, aflame, parts the drapes—and the bedroom, where brown ants cover the haft. [...]
02.25.07
The Ones Who Came after the Ones Who Could Fly
My father, like every man of his generation in our country, never quite got over the loss of flight. [...]
02.19.07
An Interview
Well, I am not sure that it is actually a process of translation. I think that the same principles apply to both music and poetry and that ideally they are one art. [...]
01.28.07
The Coca-Cola Executive in the Zapatoca Outhouse
The Coca-Cola executive was kind to me, though everyone was being kind that summer. [...]
01.17.07
Three Poems
by Eva Hooker
Round uneven sumptuous it heaves up its weight against
the pile of leaf and litter and farm trash [...]
the pile of leaf and litter and farm trash [...]
