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Simply

From Go Figure, which will be published this month by Wesleyan University Press. “were molecular machines operating on energy freely available from such sources as thermodynamic processes.” It sounds so…

Music and Mystery

by Christian Wiman,

Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career

Metal Machine Music

by Laurent Dubreuil,

Can AI think creatively? Can we?

Sanctuary

by Tyree Daye,

From a little bump in the earth, which was published in April by Copper Canyon Press. I wasn’t proud of my aim at the bird I kept missing & then…

Earth From

by Oli Hazzard,

From Sleepers Awake, which will be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The murmur of an um and an er, etc., sustains the “apparent present” through “stains in…

The Scavenger of History

by Wyatt Mason,

On Eliot Weinberger

A Soft Sonnet

by Amelia Rosselli,

From Sleep, which was republished by New York Review Books in November 2023. a soft sonnet is all the strength i have to create, full easy life have i ever…

Beckoned

by Forrest Gander,

By Forrest Gander, from Be With, a collection of poetry that will be published next month by New Directions. At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like…

Extortionate

by Andrea Brady,

By Andrea Brady, from a work in progress. Brady’s most recent book is The Strong Room (Crater Press).

After a Pageant, Before a Birth

by Brenda Hillman,

By Brenda Hillman, from a work in progress. Hillman’s collection Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days was published last month by Wesleyan University Press.

The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady & The Dead & The Truth

by Morgan Parker,

By Morgan Parker, from the poetry collection Magical Negro, which will be published by Tin House in 2019. Parker’s collection There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé was published last year by Tin…