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Women Appearing as Presents

By Amanda Nadelberg, from a manuscript in progress. Nadelberg’s most recent collection of poetry, Songs from a Mountain, was published in May by Coffee House Press.

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…

Monologue for Two Voices

by Jana Prikryl,

By Jana Prikryl, from her debut collection of poems, The After Party, which will be published this month by Tim Duggan Books.

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

by Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner,

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

Two Martyrs

by Alan Felsenthal,

By Alan Felsenthal, from the December 2015 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Felsenthal cofounded The Song Cave, a small press. His first collection of poems is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling…

Imaginary August

by C.D. Wright,

By C. D. Wright (1949–2016), from ShallCross, which will be published next month by Copper Canyon Press. Wright was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry. She…

Madrid, New Mexico

by Kenneth Irby,

By Kenneth Irby (1936–2015), whose collected poems, The Intent On, was published by North Atlantic Books in 2009.

Untitled (Triptych)

by Ben Lerner,

It might be necessary to work backward from tool marks and defects in the material on which the sky is painted, inspect the hinges joining the sky’s three panels, yet…

The Craft Talk

by Rae Armantrout,

By Rae Armantrout, from the January/February 2015 issue of The Believer. Armantrout is the author of many collections of poems, including Itself, published by Wesleyan University Press in February.

Lunar Phrases

by Frank Stanford,

From references to the moon in poems by Frank Stanford (1948–1978), who was best known for his epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Stanford’s selected…

A Band of Her Own

by Kelsey Osgood,

Anne Sexton’s lost tapes

Poetry

Women Appearing as Presents

Four in Verse

Monologue for Two Voices

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

Two Martyrs

Imaginary August

Madrid, New Mexico

Untitled (Triptych)

The Craft Talk

Lunar Phrases

A Band of Her Own

Debug

Poetry

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Women Appearing as Presents

Four in Verse

Monologue for Two Voices

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

Two Martyrs

Imaginary August

Madrid, New Mexico

Untitled (Triptych)

The Craft Talk

Lunar Phrases

A Band of Her Own

Debug