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Poetry

Resistances

By Fred Moten, Ben Lerner,

The prepositions you’re most likely to encounter after the title of a poem are “for” or “to” and sometimes “after”—“for my daughter”; “to Bobby”; “after Pound”; etc. They signify dedication,…

Battlefield and Wind Chime

By Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ben Lerner,

Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poems are echo chambers of vernaculars and unofficial languages. He both registers the damage caused by systemic racism and evinces—and by his work extends—the rich modes of resistance…

Six Poems

By Ben Lerner, Michael Palmer,

The formal accomplishment of Michael Palmer’s poetry is in tension with one of his recurrent themes: the limits and slippages of language. A poem dedicated to the trumpeter and composer…

Two Poems

By Anthony Amsterdam,

Four in Verse

By John Ashbery, Ben Lerner,

Many of John Ashbery’s recent poems are full of sayings and parables and clichés — but from what culture, what country? The world of these poems resembles ours: there are…

Palm Sunday

By Frederick Seidel,

Sublimaze

By Gjertrud Schnackenberg,

Miami in the Arctic Circle

By Frederick Seidel,

Italy

By Frederick Seidel,

Bipolar November

By Frederick Seidel,

Darkening in the dark

By Frederick Seidel,

The improved man

By Kevin Baker,

The just

By Jorge Luis Borges,

Alexandria, 641 A.D.

By Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Stephen Kessler

Note for a fantastic story

By Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Stephen Kessler

The two cathedrals

By Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Stephen Kessler

Two forms of insomnia

By Jorge Luis Borges,

History of the night

By Jorge Luis Borges,

Waiting for the teacher

By Arthur Miller,

The poet laureate’s official Blushing Monday poem

By August Kleinzahler,

Flaws

Translated by Barbara R. Thompson

Notes from a child of Paradise, XII

By Alfred Corn,

Birdwatchers of America

By Anthony Hecht,

Elizabeth and Eban, 1940

By Gjertrud Schnackenberg,

The freedom of the house

By John Ashbery,

The harbor at Seattle

By Robert Hass,

Little millionaire’s pad, Chicago

By Robert Lowell,

A song in the front yard

By Gwendolyn Brooks,

America began in houses

By Douglas Crase,

A family of dolls’ house dolls

By Cynthia Macdonald,

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