Volume 20, no. 2
POETRY
Oksana Maksymchuk
A Guest from War
Duck-Rabbit
Unverified Footage
Centipede
Revisions
Wave and Particle
Alex Averbuch
Translated from the Ukrainian by
Oksana Maksymchuk
“trees are budding with war”
“when you finally make it”
“how do you return to a town which does
not exist”
Yulia Fintiktikova
Translated from the Russian by
Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky
Welkam to Paradize
Ostap Slyvynsky
Translated from the Ukrainian by
Oksana Maksymchuk
Home
The Last Letter
Lyuba Yakimchuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by
Oksana Maksymchuk
The New Coastline of Ukraine
D. Nurkse
Carriers
A Moment Ago
Leaving Redeemer
George Szirtes
Landmarks
Maternal
Dialogue
Exhibitionists
(The poems Landmarks, Maternal, and Dialogue are the products of an ongoing book-length collaboration with the Singaporean poet Alvin Pang.)
Saadi Youssef
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled
Mattawa
Elegy
Falsehoods
An Invitation to Hibernate
Opium
To a Girlfriend
Poem Beyond Meaning
Pascale Petit
Beast of Bodmin
Roe Stag
Song Thrush
The Moor Horses
Marion McCready
The Branches of my Heart are Steel Wire
Philip Gross
Paul Klee: The Later Angels
Porcelain
Transient
William Palmer
A Short History of Aerial Warfare
Last Acts
Toon Tellegen
Translated from the Dutch by Judith
Wilkinson
One Morning in March
List of Brilliant Things
Twittering House Sparrows Made of Paper
I Will Miss My Dog Terribly
The Opposite of Me and You
At the Cutting Edge
To a Baseball Game with Walt Whitman
Did You Have Time for Me?
To Be Outside, Singing
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Afterlife with Father
You Really Ought To
Summer Ghazal
Table Four
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Peter Krumbach
F Train
Outside the Bungalow
The Drip
George Kalogeris
Baby Hercules
Flying Saucers
Colander
Procrustean
Jacob Glatshteyn
Translated from the Yiddish by Marc
Kaminsky
You’ve Laid Waste
To the One Who Believes and Waits
The Bratislaver Rebbe to His Scribe
Note on The Bratislaver Rebbe to His Scribe
Without Jews
A Word in Your Mouth
Note: The Holy and Hidden Word in
Glatshteyn’s Mouth
Martyn Crucefix
Derudet and Son
Harry Clifton
A Woman Drives Across Ireland
Atacama Clothes Dump
Amergin
Anne Fitzgerald
Georgian Sugar Tongs
Kate Farrell
Philosophical Sonata
Fantasia on a Line by Tomas Tranströmer
Joshua McGuire
Sibelius, Symphony No. 5 in E♭ Major,
Movement III, Rehearsal D
Why the Guitar?
Shane Neilson
Why we make altars
Sacred technician
John Brehm
The Things We Tell Each Other
Bomb Pops!
Steady Going
Design
Daniel Lawless
Once
from Photographs and Captions from the
Polio Ward, 1943–1947, the Courier- Journal,
Louisville, Kentucky
Phyllis Pleasant, 14, a“Sweet” Surprise
Anonymous Girl, Aged 17, “Cured” Awaits
Her Departure from St. Anthony’s Hospital
Richard Hoffman
32 Feet per Second per Second
Barry Wallenstein
The Moment
Kasey Jueds
Catechism with Doorknob and the River
Frozen Over
Catechism of Trees Darker Than the Sky
Mina Gorji
Field notes from the edge of a volcano
Variations in white
REVIEWS and ESSAYS