
The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North Korea is a collection of piercing poems from the author Bandi, who writes under the pseudonym that means “firefly.” Ironically, Bandi used…
Poetry International 5
“Feral”
Poetry International 15/16
“Evidence”
Poetry International V
“Smell of Rain or Poem of M.”
“The Man Who Came Back”
Poetry International V
“Pair of Shoes”
Poetry International 13/14
“Restored to Blue”
Poetry International 22/23
“Cremation”
Poetry International 5
“Good”
“Fifth Grade”
Poetry International 5
“A House Made of Smoke”
Poetry International 22/23
“The Blue Vein”
Poetry International 20/21
“On Falling Leaves”
Poetry International 7/8
“The Dead Man’s Pain”
Poetry International 15/16
“The Child and the Stairs”
Poetry International 10
“The Wedding”
“Intimate Disasters”
Poetry International Weblog
“Greek Blood”
“Nights in Panciu”
Poetry International 12
“Welcome to My Foolish Dreamland”
Poetry International 20/21
“You and I and the World”
Poetry International 22/23
“The Craft Talk”
Poetry International 6
“Priscilla Atkins”
Poetry International 6
“Driving to Cincinnati”
Poetry International 11
“Six Thousand Prayers”
Poetry International Weblog
“Six Thousand Prayers”
Poetry International 5
“Invitation To a Poet”
Poetry International 6
“Hungry Ghosts”
Poetry International 17
“A Nineteenth-Century Portrait”
Poetry International 12
“Questions and Answers”
Poetry International 17
“Camel”
Poetry International 20/21
“Elliptical Poem”
Poetry International 20/21
“Experimental Poem”
Poetry International 20/21
“Lost Poem”
Poetry International 5
“Woman Behind Genoa and Elsewhere”
Poetry International 22/23
“Lines from the Throne of Old Ideas”
Poetry International 5
“The Mourning Doves”
“November”
Poetry International 5
“Landscape with Silos”
Poetry International Weblog
“Godzilla in Mexico”
“Lisa”
Poetry International 1
“My Muse”
Poetry International 5
“Sweets”
Poetry International 6
“When You Are Old”
Poetry International 10
“Prince Charming’s Confession”
Poetry International 18/19
“Where They Burn Books”
Poetry International 20/21
“Found: Messiah”
Poetry International 5
“Catechism of the Sea”
Poetry International 5
“Sky/Branches/Sky”
“When You Ask About Your Native Country”
Poetry International 10
“Picnic in Stone”
Poetry International 20/21
“Winter”
Poetry International 6
“Ring of Fire”
Poetry International 6
“Pomegranates”
Poetry International 7/8
“Caliban”
Cathleen Calbert was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International Weblog
“IN MEMORY OF PAUL ELUARD”
“YOU TOO SPEAK”
Poetry International 20/21
“The Bridge over the Border”
Poetry International 7/8
“20th Century History”
Poetry International Issue 5
“Ad Nauseam”
“The Unexpressed”
Poetry International 15/16
“Somebody walking over my grave”
Poetry International 10
“Contemporary”
Poetry International 7/8
“The problem with words”
Robert Cooperman was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
from KEEL II. The past survives inside my mind: somehow they are still alive: all their bodies side-by-side surface, blister sea to breathe azure. Above, below, above their eyes sunk…
Poetry International 5
“The Gyre”
“In The Camargue”
Poetry International 12
“Nice”
Poetry International Weblog
“Nice”
Poetry International 12
“Dogwood”
Selections from Canti di un luogo abbandonato
Songs of a World Abandoned
Translations by Kayla Rodney and Janel Spencer
Poetry International V
“Poem for the Year of the Buffalo”
Poetry International 13/14
“Untitled”
Poetry International 1
“Speechless”
Poetry International 7/8
“Goddess I Am Lonely Now”
Poetry International 13/14
“She Didn’t Come”
Poetry International Weblog
She Didn’t Come
Poetry International V
“I Wasn’t There”
Poetry International 17
“In the Brief Time We Have Left”
Carl Dennis was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Joanne Diaz was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 6
“The Girl In The Forest”
Poetry International 20/21
“Asylum Seekers”
Poetry International 10
“Leaving the Ceremony”
“The Magus”
Poetry International 20/21
“Larksong”
Poetry International 15/16
“Poetics”
Poetry International Weblog
“Prayer of a Man in Snow”
“Untitled”
“A Prayer in Nineteen Forty-Three”
Poetry International 20/21
“If I started selling candles…”
Poetry International 7/8
“The Blaskets”
“How We Will Live: A Manifesto”
“The Planetary Crisis”
“The Moutherland Oration”
“Creature”
Poetry International Weblog
“A Poet Among Us”
Poetry International 20/21
“Earth”
Poetry International 20/21
“Flags”
Poetry International 22/23
“Alias City”
Poetry International 17
“The Chase”
Poetry International 17
“Sublime Moments on Hold”
Poetry International 22/23
“‘Second Eden'”
Poetry International 20/21
“The River”
Poetry International 22/23
“[It could be just this…]
Taylor Graham was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 13/14
“Teaching Paradise Lost”
Poetry International 12
“The Lights Are Coming On in a Small Industrial City”
Poetry International 6
“Feet”
Jeff Halbert was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 12
“Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, Returns”
Nancy Hall James was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Charles Harper Webb was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International Weblog
“Mourning and Other Activities”
Poetry International Weblog
“Tankas For Toraiwa”
Poetry International 7/8
“Sorry”
Poetry International 6
“Angelus”
“Lingua”
Poetry International 17
“The Bear”
Poetry International Weblog
“Left to My Own Devices”
“Psalm of Filling the Rental Car”
Poetry International 22/23
“I Was Never Able to Pray”
Poetry International 18/19
“Openly Worrying Song”
James Hoch was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 12
“Anchor”
Joan Houlihan was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
NOT the whispering branch,
Nor the cool wind
Nor the weak heart
But a voice saying: go
Poetry International 22/23
“Untouched”
Poetry International 20/21
“Rain”
Poetry International 20/21
“The Chair”
Poetry International 6
“Anniversary”
Poetry International 13/14
“Prayer to a Farm Worker”
Poetry International Weblog
“Prayer to a Farm Worker”
Poetry International 5
“Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale”
Poetry International 7/8
“A Warm Day”
Hédi Kaddour is a Tunisia-born French poet. His work, translated by Marilyn Hacket, was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 18/19
“Leopards in the Temple”
Poetry International 20/21
“In the Pictures”
Poetry International 22/23
“Almost Invisible”
Poetry International 7/8
“Come Close”
“Overblown Roses”
from Babyn Yar
Poetry International 1
“A Man from Mars”
Poetry International 10
“Children”
Poetry International Weblog
“Children”
Poetry International 17
“The Mosquito”
Poetry International V
“Women Writers”
Jan Lee Ande was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 20/21
“Murmur”
“Silence”
Poetry International 20/21
“Honeymoon Suite”
Poetry International 20/21
“Beyond”
Larry Levis was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 6
“Inlet, Duluth”
Poetry International 13/14
“Still lifes with one or more persons”
Poetry International 151/6
“Other Secrets of the Empty and the Full”
Suzanne Lummis is a Los Angeles-based poet featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International V
“Night Train”
Poetry International 12
“There Are Spaces”
Sarah Maclay was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
“Uterus”
“Yard Work”
Poetry International 20/21
“the year’s tree”
Poetry International 20/21
“We Have No Sleep”
Poetry International 20/21
“The Dog”
Poetry International 20/21
“Stone”
Poetry International 22/23
“peace offering”
Poetry International 18/19
“And I Was Alive”
“Black Candle”
Poetry International 7/8
“The Road”
Poetry International 22/23
“How to Say I Love You”
Poetry International 12
“The Snow Outside”
Poetry International 13/14
“Things”
Poetry International 6
“The Edge of the World”
Poetry International 7/8
“The Rock”
Poetry International 9
“Sad Stories Told in Bars: The Reader’s Digest Version”
Poetry International Weblog
“Sad Stories Told in Bars: The Reader’s Digest Version”
Poetry International 20/21
“Copying the Master”
Poetry International 20/21
“Crying With Glasses On”
Poetry International Weblog
“Solids and Non-Solids”
Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi-American poet. Her work was translated by Liz Winslow in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International Weblog
“The War Works Hard”
Poetry International 15/16
“When my Father Died my Forehead Died”
Poetry International 13/14
“To See Him Again”
Poetry International Weblog
“To See Him Again”
Poetry International 6
“A Woman in Three Volumes”
Poetry International Weblog
“Xenia”
Poetry International 7/8
“Heritage”
David Mura was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Leonard Nathan was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International Weblog
“Verb”
“The Heavenly Poets “
Poetry International V
“My Stepmother”
Poetry International V
“My Stepmother”
Poetry International V
“Gifts”
“The Soldier”
Poetry International 20/21
“Death Notice”
Poetry International 22/23
“[The truth and I are flatmates]”
Poetry International 6
“Woman Emerging From The Closet”
Poetry International 10
“the issue of euthanasia”
Poetry International 12
“Untitled”
Ed Ochester was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
John Olivares Espinoza was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
I was not the sick but the prophet
And I was not the prophet
But the twofold person
Who held his hands in front of him
Now and then someone stroked my arms
It was my mother and my father and they smiled
Because inside my eyelids a congregation stood ready
To lay me down or lift me up
Poetry International 22/23
“Film Viewed on Coney Island”
Poetry International 20/21
“My Versions: Medieval Acrostic”
Poetry International 12
“A Painting of Grey Seas”
Poetry International 13/14
“A Prisoner”
Poetry International 15/16
“The Husband”
Poetry International 18/19
“Wild Youth”
Poetry International Weblog
“The Pilgrim”
“The Tablets”
Poetry International 1
“Woman Holding a Balance”
Poetry International 6
“Wind, Water, Rock”
Poetry International V
“Meadow”
Poetry International 12
“The Messenger”
Poetry International 12
“Frontier”
Poetry International Weblog
“unfortunately typical song lyric”
Poetry International 18/19
“Holding My Breath”
Poetry International 18/19
“Song of Love”
Poetry International 18/19
“Solo”
Poetry International 7/8
“Forty Full Seasons Gone Like Yesterday”
Her Lap I’m complaining again about the time my mother went to France and left me alone with the stewardess. I was only ten but she made me feel like…
Poetry International 12
“You Are Walking Circles in the Desert”
Adrienne Rich was featured in Volume V on Poetry International.
Poetry International 11
“The Women Of Kismayo”
Poetry International Weblog
“The Women Of Kismayo”
Poetry International 18/19
“A Small Poem”
Len Roberts was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Ars Domestica The key to this life is surprise. Don’t say my whole life is spent trying to reunite socks. Say instead, surprise! Here is Eleanor’s white cotton undershirt. Surprise!…
Poetry International 6
“The Near Side of Language”
Poetry International 15/16
“Equations of Daffodil”
Poetry International 7/8
“My Gentle Dog”
Poetry International 22/23
“The Heat Is”
Poetry International 12
“Moan of the Mirror (Ahe Ayeneh)”
Poetry International 6
“Assisted Living”
Poetry International 22/23
“Self-Portrait in Black and White”
Poetry International 7/8
“Sell-By Date”
Poetry International 20/21
“Snow”
Poetry International Online
“TESTIMONY”
‘PRAYER”
“THE ARRIVAL”
Poetry International 20/21
“Lumpen Literati”
Poetry International 15/16
“Old Grief”
Poetry International 22/23
“Field Guide”
Poetry International 18/19
“from a love note to a brothel”
Poetry International 22/23
“Poems Without Order”
Poetry International 17
“Shakespeare”
Poetry International 12
“Advice”
Poetry International 18/19
“My Daughter”
Poetry International 15/16
“Bread”
“Raisins”
Poetry International 22/23
“[March 5, 1878]”
Occasionally, I Remove Your Brain Through Your Nose: A Book of Poems
“Just Married”
“Home Movie”
“Chicken”
“Sometimes I Hear Husband”
Poetry International Weblog
“Donkey”
Poetry International 7/8
“Consider”
Poetry International 15/16
“Untitled”
Poetry International 6
“Haiku”
Virgil Suárez is a Cuban-American poet featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International V
“Beautiful Woman”
“Standing Before You”
Terese Svoboda was featured in Volume V of Poetry International
Poetry International 17
“Building the Barricade”
“Said the Major”
Poetry International 13/14
“Farewell to the Führer”
Poetry International 22/23
“Headlines from the United States”
Poetry International 1
“Eleven Parts of Feeling” (Translated by Martha Collins
Poetry International 22/23
“A Love Song”
Poetry International V
“Lap Zuy”
Poetry International 15/16
“I know the truth”
Mariana Tsvetayeva was one of the most gifted Russia poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Her work, translated by Vittoria Bradshaw, was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 12
“Pete Tells Me Things”
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Egypt-born Italian poet. His work was translated by Gilbert Wesley Purdy in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 6
“What Separates Us from the Humans”
Poetry International 6
“The Silver of Our Moment”
Poetry International 13/14
“Earth and the Librarian”
Poetry International Weblog
Poetry International 18/19
“Two Gods”
Poetry International 15/16
“My Gold-Toothed One”
“Reply”
Poetry International 17
“[a woman loves to see her man with his]”
Poetry International Weblog
“Homecoming: Anse La Raye”
Poetry International 1
“Dogs”
Poetry International 12
“How It Is New”
Bruce Weigl was feature in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 10
“An Ordinary Life”
Poetry International 12
“Friendship in Translation”
Poetry International 7/8
“Cross Roads”
Mary Winters was featured in Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 20/21
“The Fallacy of Snow”
Poetry International 20/21
“The Hypocrisy of Snow”
Poetry International 20/21
“Discussing Death with Death Row Inmates”
Saadi Youssef’s work was translated by Khaled Mattawa for Volume V of Poetry International.
Poetry International 20/21
“A Room of My Own”
Poetry International 20/21
“Night and Morning of Spring”
The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North Korea is a collection of piercing poems from the author Bandi, who writes under the pseudonym that means “firefly.” Ironically, Bandi used…
In award-winning Canadian poet Russell Thornton’s The Broken Face, he expertly intertwines themes of memory and place with the metaphysical and natural world, often through deeply personal portraits of his…
Chet’la Sebree, in her premier collection, Mistress, offers an astonishing parallel between the 19th and 21st-century woman and the challenges of navigating Black womanhood at the intersection of men, sexuality,…
In this online post for the Poetry Society of America, Rick Barot reflects on one of the poems in his collection, The Galleons, noting how it is “ostensibly about one…
Summer Snow is a rich and substantial new collection from the acclaimed poet Robert Hass. As the former Poet Laureate’s first new collection in ten years, and the length and…
What Does Not Return by Tami Haaland is a book filled with light. Haaland’s language is as simple and expansive as a prairie, her words rendering beauty in even the…
One should never judge a book by its cover, they say, but one look at the sumptuous cover and lovely Urdu title of Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s Kundiman Prize-winning poetry collection…
À Propos Ravens The Flying Raven, Édouard Manet, Ex Libris for The Raven (Le Corbeau) by Edgar Allan Poe, French Edition, Trans. Stéphane Mallarmé, (1875) You take the folding chair…
To be an orphan inside of “blackness” —is the condition of it (us). We can love it, sure, cradle its beauti- ful head, and…
“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World,” wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s Confessions, Book X. In a revision of Wilbur and Augustine, the speaker in…