New in PIOnline
Announcing the publication of our 25th Anniversary Issue! Available for purchase in print and pdf here. Browse a complete table of contents here.
FEATURED: Broadsides showcasing poems from Pablo Neruda, Kay Ryan, Hashim Shafiq, and others from our new issue.
REVIEWS: Robert Dunsdon reviews Donald Platt’s Swansdown.
POETRY: New poems from some of our 2022 PI Prize Finalists—Emily Portillo, Daniel Zeiders, and Emily Leithauser
…and much more!

from our 25th Anniversary Issue
- Floods“The poor live on low ground waiting for the river/ to rise one night and sweep them out to sea.” | by Pablo Neruda
- The Mountain” I have washed the pebbles/ and the wind that clings to the trees” | by Hashim Shafiq
- Fatal Flaw“Most/ people never bend/ in the fatal instant,” | by Kay Ryan
Dispatches
- Ukrainian Feature: Words for War“For many of the poets, the war is not some distant event one hears about in the papers. It is part of their personal history”| poems from Ukraine, edited by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky
- In Praise of Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)“For years now, as my plane begins its descent toward the airport outside of Kraków, the city where I was born and raised but left years ago, I recite them quietly” | by Piotr Florczyk
- Yulya Tsimafeyeva’s Poetry of One-Legged Wonder“Between these poets of cultural affirmation and the poets of silence… comes a voice of a woman—and a woman in a patriarchal world is always somewhat of an immigrant” | by Valzhyna Mort
Interviews
- Of Things Never Told BeforeOn myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
- Other People’s VoicesHow sound can bridge the past and present and what books of poetry have in common with websites | Zach Bernstein and Paisley Rekdal talk about her digital project West: A Translation
- Poetry UnboundOn the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar Mike Chasar
- Celebrating the Natural WorldThe human, the nonhuman, a love of revising, and the sorrow necessary in celebrating the natural world | Tami Haaland talks to Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Reviews
- A Kind of BlessingSwansdown by Donald Platt | reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
- Remembering the ForbiddenA Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
- Life Endures Nourished by ItselfCold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker
Poetry
- Light“I have apprenticed myself to light,/to the way it moves through the world” | by Emily Portillo
- Duck Pond“The pond rises and sways, wind-rippled/a gelatinous mirror ball waiting to fall” | by Daniel Zeiders
- Sunporch“Our house was a seabed of alien vines/reaching to touch the windowsills.” | by Emily Leithauser
- The Daughter“Yet, to love her this way is to love the blue of distances” | by Jody Rambo
From the Archives
- Kings“Those were days when I walked around a little hungry” | by Adam Zagajewski
- The War Works Hard“The war works hard, day and night. / It is a muse for the tyrant’s / long speeches, / it hangs medals around generals, / it blesses poets with themes, / it makes the makers busy—” | by Dunya Mikhail
- 128“In this huge town of mine—night. / the sleepy home I leave—behind. / And people think: wife, daughter— / But I’m aware of just this—night.” | by Marina Tsvetaeva
- Decked Out at Night“They stand apart in this world, / each one with his night, / each one with his death, / morose, bareheaded, hoarfrost-covered” | by Paul Celan
- We Have No Sleep “We think of tomorrow, / as we feed the swans / with yesterday’s bread.” | by Nikola Madzirov
- You and I and the World“Place the scale on the kitchen table / and let reality weigh itself. / Put your coat on. / Turn the light off in the hallway. / Close the door.” | by Werner Aspenström