Poem of the week
HEATHER HAS TWO LEATHER DADDIES - D. A. POWELL
D. A. Powell Professor University of San Francisco D.A. Powell’s books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the...
CLAM SHELL - CAROL CIAVONNE
Carol Ciavonne is the author of Azimuth (Jaded Ibis 2014) and Birdhouse Dialogues with Susana Amundarain (LaFi 2014). She is an associate editor at Posit journal.
FULTON STREET TO NORTH BEACH - JAN BEATTY
Jan Beatty’s fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2017 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her last book, The Switching/Yard was named...
EADER ELEMENTARY - RAYAN MUSTAFA
Rayan Mustafa is a Palestinian American poet from California. His work explores the intersection between the personal and political spheres of life and the emergence of identity...
(from Like Nebraska) - Sophie Klahr
Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...
MY SON SAYS HE IS MAKING AN ANIMAL - BRADLEY PAUL
Bradley Paul’s poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Smartish Pace, Fence, and numerous other journals. Plasma, his third book of poetry, will be published in...
THE GENESIS OF MOTION - DOMINICK DUDA
Dominick Duda is a 2015 recipient of the A.W. "Bud" Collins, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing. His work has appeared in Black Market Lit, The Mill, and...
BLANK GUN - BETH BACHMANN
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and...
ANIMAL DOOR - CONNER HABIB
Conner Habib is an author, host of the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, and activist. He lives in Los Angeles. Twitter: @ConnerHabib
Ever thank goodness - Matthew Siegel
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