THE WOVEN MESSAGE come hide near me I’ll count however long I need to count the insects in the web— I like the still living… Read more “Poem of the Day: Christine Garren”
Category: Poem of the Day Series
Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz
SELF-PORTRAIT I did not want my body Spackled in the world’s Black beads and broke Diamonds. What the world Wanted, I did not. Of the… Read more “Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz”
Poem of the Day: Claudia Rankine
/ You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire… Read more “Poem of the Day: Claudia Rankine”
Poem of the Day: Allan Peterson
THE INEVITABLE To have that letter arrive was like the mist that took a meadow and revealed hundreds of small webs once invisible The inevitable… Read more “Poem of the Day: Allan Peterson”
Poem of the Day: Ross Gay
BURIAL You’re right, you’re right, the fertilizer’s good— it wasn’t a gang of dullards came up with chucking a fish in the planting hole or… Read more “Poem of the Day: Ross Gay”
Poem of the Day: Chad Forbregd
CAPGUN Imagine a boy holding a capgun. Now, instead of a boy, imagine a man holding a portrait of a boy with a capgun. There’s… Read more “Poem of the Day: Chad Forbregd”
Poem of the Day: Robert Hass
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING Many are making love. Up above, the angels in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing are braiding one another’s… Read more “Poem of the Day: Robert Hass”
Poem of the Day: Larissa Szporluk
LADYBIRDS Brilliance is a carcass on a snow-white beach. Envy never sleeps. I tell my children truthfully: a long red beard is breaking from the… Read more “Poem of the Day: Larissa Szporluk”
Poem of the Day: Norman Dubie
TROMBONE There were carols on the kitchen radio, a late cold night, entering the room while straightening the blistered Navajo rug, I remembered suddenly what… Read more “Poem of the Day: Norman Dubie”
Poem of the Day: Bill Rasmovicz
THE MOON’S HIND LEGS The moon’s hind legs are invisible. Its bastard ear-boring cry is only fully heard by infants. Bright as the starchy pharmacist’s… Read more “Poem of the Day: Bill Rasmovicz”