From Sufi Lyrics, by Bullhe Shah, published by Harvard University Press in January as part of the Murty Classical Library of India. Bullhe Shah was an eighteenth-century Sufi poet and…
By Ted Kooser, from the latest issue of New Letters. Kooser is a former U.S. poet laureate and the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
By Wis?awa Szymborska, from Map: Collected and Last Poems, due out next year from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Szymborska (1923–2012), a Polish poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in…
By Raphael Rubinstein, from Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, published in August by Black Ocean. Rubinstein is the author of several books, most recently The Miraculous (Paper Monument).
By Jane Hirshfield, from the Summer 2014 issue of The Paris Review. Hirshfield’s most recent book of poems is Come, Thief (Knopf).
By Jill Bialosky, from the Spring 2014 issue of The Kenyon Review. Bialosky’s fourth poetry collection, The Players, will be published next year by Knopf.
By Jeff Dolven, from a collection in progress. Dolven is the author of Speculative Music, published last year by Sarabande.
By Gretchen Marquette, published in the Summer issue of The Paris Review. Marquette lives and works in Minneapolis.