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Poet Margot Kahn on Why She Left One Particular Poem Out of Her Collection
“One of the poems I put in my stack involved my father’s dick.”
By
Margot Kahn
| September 18, 2025
“The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter,” a Poem by Alison Lubar
From the Collection “The Other Tree”
By
Alison Lubar
| September 17, 2025
“
BOY
COMING OUT
GAY
GOING FAR TO
LADY
WAY TO
QUEER
,” a Poem by Rickey Laurentiis
From the Collection “Death of the First Idea”
By
Rickey Laurentiis
| September 15, 2025
“Night Terrors,” a Poem by Sharon Olds
From the 45th Anniversary Edition from “Satan Says”
By
Sharon Olds
| September 10, 2025
An Excerpt From “All Souls,” by Kevin Young
From the Collection “Night Watch”
By
Kevin Young
| September 8, 2025
“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni
From the Collection “The New Book”
By
Nikki Giovanni
| September 3, 2025
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Richard Siken
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“Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan
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Nima Hasan
| August 15, 2025
“Blood Moon,” a Prose Poem by Anne Waldman
From the Collection “Mesopotopia”
By
Anne Waldman
| August 14, 2025
“Black History Minute,” a Poem by Harryette Mullen
From the Collection “Regaining Unconsciousness”
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Harryette Mullen
| August 6, 2025
“Reading,” a Poem by Emily Skillings
From the Collection “Tantrums in Air”
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Emily Skillings
| August 4, 2025
“On Bilocation,” a Poem by Remi Graves
From the Collection “coal”
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Remi Graves
| July 29, 2025
“How Much We Died...”
A Poem by Nasser Rabah
“nothing left in the day’s haggard pockets / but dizzying hunger and rows of rubble”
By
Nasser Rabah
| July 1, 2025
“The Burden of Words,” a Poem by Fatemeh Shams
“They say to write poetry after atrocity is barbaric / but what else remains?”
By
Fatemeh Shams
| June 30, 2025
“Thermal Imaging,” a Poem by DeeSoul Carson
From the Latest Issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review
By
DeeSoul Carson
| June 26, 2025
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"Mackintosh has a spare and confident hand Her work is sometimes described as dreamlike certainly…"