Lingers now in peace upon the swollen tide,
ruby-throat fallen from sky in the last few hours. [...]
Online Exclusives
11.16.04
From Draft 59: Flash Back
09.17.04
I know the letters this way
by Eric Baus
The way I talk is a result of the way I hear her I was told but it took how long to show up in cursive. [...]
08.17.04
Diagramming Here: An Interview
Free verse and the prose poem may have emerged in revolt against the formality inhabiting French language but insofar as New York School poets write imitating the relaxed line that they have read they persuade us of their urbanity and their literariness. [...]
08.01.04
CLOUD / RIDGE
pale blue white haze in front of the vertical
plane of the ridge in window on left, sunlit
orange flower on green passion-vine covered
fence in right foreground [...]
plane of the ridge in window on left, sunlit
orange flower on green passion-vine covered
fence in right foreground [...]
07.08.04
Summer Letters
06.01.04
The Skirmish
by Kira Henehan
“… and then I died and went to France.”
Thus, the story of your life wrapped up and pensive. [...]
Thus, the story of your life wrapped up and pensive. [...]
04.17.04
Two Poems
02.17.04
The Library of Seven Readings
Because its material substratum remains transcendental
the freedom of the subject, which the transcendental is designed to rejuvenate,
allows us to inhale and exhale refreshing drafts just as we approach the summit. [...]
the freedom of the subject, which the transcendental is designed to rejuvenate,
allows us to inhale and exhale refreshing drafts just as we approach the summit. [...]
01.22.04
Two Poems
by Brian Swann
It drew in my eyes, a slab, on it a huge white fish
just landed, or beached, a beluga, intact, naked [...]
just landed, or beached, a beluga, intact, naked [...]