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  • Poem
    By Dorothy Parker
    Unto seventy years and seven,
       Hide your double birthright well—
    You, that are the brat of Heaven
       And …
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    I was thinking of some of the messages Rilke will never receive: — dentist called abt your appt tomorrow…
  • Poem
    By Carol Ann Duffy
    At childhood’s end, the houses petered out
    into playing fields, the factory, allotments
    kept, like mistresses…
  • Poem
    By Ama Codjoe
    What if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand
    grenade—I mean, what if after
    the loaded gun that takes two hands
    to fire, I lay down the splintered broom
    and the steel so cold it wets
    my cheek? What if I unclench the valleys
    of my...
  • Article
    By Daegan Miller

    Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Hannah Arendt facing the camera while holding a lit cigarette.
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff in the words of people who loved them.
  • Poem
    By Margarita Engle
    Taíno in our blood
    and on our tongues
    stirs, yawns, rises,
    no longer lost.

    We ignore old historians
    who tell…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineElementary Magic

    By Allison Swenson
    I remember first hearing rumors
    of the atom. We are all made up
    of crumbs, Q told me
    when we were kids.…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower
    and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
    enough…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Caleb Femi on parties, golden pavements, and the downside of self-awareness. 
  • Poem
    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Article
    By Jackson Davidow

    Fifty years after it was published, Elsa’s Housebook remains an intimate photographic document of the literary avant-garde.

    A black-and-white self-portrait of Elsa Dorfman sitting on a couch.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    CODEX©

    By Nick Makoha
    SAMO© first appears as a tag on a New York
    City wall in 1978 two blocks down from Aswad
    bookstore…
  • Poem
    By Richard Blanco
    After my third shot of tequila / chased by a lime
    sour as my rant: fuck this-fuck that-fuck them-fuck…
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