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Poem

Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)

by Ed Skoog,

By Ed Skoog, from Run the Red Lights, which was published this month by Copper Canyon Press. Skoog is the author of two previous collections of poetry, including Rough Day…

Nine and Ten

by Alice Notley,

By Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts, a collection published last month by Penguin Books. Notley won the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

The Middle Ages

by Sara Nicholson,

Poem

A Child to the State

by Jacqueline Waters,

By Jacqueline Waters, from Commodore, which will be published next year by Ugly Duckling Presse. Waters is the author of two previous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, One Sleeps…

You

by Eileen Myles,

By Eileen Myles, from a forthcoming collection. I Must Be Living Twice, a volume of Myles’s new and selected poems, was published by Ecco last September.

1/29/84 N.Y.C.

by Allen Ginsberg,

By Allen Ginsberg (1926–97), from Wait Till I’m Dead, a volume of his uncollected poems that will be published by Grove Atlantic in February.

Release the Darkness to New Lichen

by Peter Gizzi,

By Peter Gizzi, from the spring issue of Granta. Gizzi’s selected poems, In Defense of Nothing, was published last year by Wesleyan University Press.

Not Complete Enough

by John Wieners,

By John Wieners (1934–2002), from Supplication, a volume of his selected poems out this month from Wave Books.

Quick Trip

by Geoffrey G. O’Brien,

By Geoffrey G. O’Brien, from Literary Hub. O’Brien is the author of four books of poetry, including, most recently, People on Sunday (Wave Books).

The Custom of the Country

by Jeff Dolven,

By Jeff Dolven, from A New English Grammar, a collection in progress. Dolven, who received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of Speculative Music, published by Sarabande in 2013.

Asphodel

by Elizabeth Willis,

By Elizabeth Willis, from a work in progress. New York Review Books published Willis’s sixth collection, Alive, in April. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.

Poem

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Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)

Nine and Ten

The Middle Ages

A Child to the State

You

1/29/84 N.Y.C.

Release the Darkness to New Lichen

Not Complete Enough

Quick Trip

The Custom of the Country

Asphodel

July 2015

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