Essay
By Colin Dickey
Gray Barker helped create UFO mythology from his home in rural West Virginia. In his poems, he channels the repression and paranoia that stalked postwar America.
Poem
From the magazine:Something Like We Did IV
Something Like We Did IV
By Tim Seibles
Wind in the leaves
of the live oak next door
and the June bugs
click-click
hard bodies
hitting the screen.
Couldn’t tell how much
time had passed.
Light from traffic
on the ceiling.
Late that sound
in the sky soft.
Thinking out loud
then inside my head:
they were still there—
the way they walked
that...
of the live oak next door
and the June bugs
click-click
hard bodies
hitting the screen.
Couldn’t tell how much
time had passed.
Light from traffic
on the ceiling.
Late that sound
in the sky soft.
Thinking out loud
then inside my head:
they were still there—
the way they walked
that...
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
In the final episode of season 2, Marie Howe invites listeners to find what’s praisable.
Poem
From the magazine:Sir
By Carl Phillips
You with your crown
of days for headdress,
your promises, for safe-
keeping. You hovering
as usual distantly…
of days for headdress,
your promises, for safe-
keeping. You hovering
as usual distantly…
Poem
By Jeni Prater
& we hold our bodies tight like a gaze.
Is it gall or instinct that I know
my stone’s-throw titties could…
Is it gall or instinct that I know
my stone’s-throw titties could…
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First, there was the horse.
Imagine creatures as majestic...
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