Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: 1970s
The Recollection-Hole
By Richard Pearse
The middle-aged man decides to cut a hole in his breakfast table, to stick his finger in and so carry around with him that table, his breakfast-recollection.
The Visiting Distinguished, or Do Your Own Weeping
By Richard Pearse
Because you are the Visiting Distinguished, and because our whole city is celebrating your illustrious Treatise On Weeping, I am giving a party in your honor and discussing with you some prominent instances of weeping
In Jackson’s Study (A Year After He Has Gone)
By Fredric Matteson
What correspondence there is
between his eyebrows:
looking at his fragile face
Gabby’s Bathing Cap
By Fredric Matteson
(for my grandmother as a young woman)
There is no sun
for it can not be remembered:
Hubris
By Aileen Grumbach
Lake Time Lake Space
By Aileen Grumbach
Letter From The Magician
By Philip Graham
Toe
By Philip Graham
Railroad Man
By Philip Graham
Writing with the Radio On
By Larry Zirlin
every song on the radio reminds me of you
each one seems to be the story of our lives
yet i believe nothing is like anything else