Poetry

MAY 2008
	Featured Poets Jane Hirshfield The Decision Read >>	Seth Abramson Provincetown Fourth Read >>
	Liz Waldner Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis Read >>	Cathy Park Hong Ensor Read >>
	Featured Prose Eavan Boland Islands Apart: A Notebook There has been a gradual, perhaps calcifying professionalism which requires of a poet a standard of behavior and communality which poets were once exempted from. I was never uncritical of that exemption. But now, somehow, I wish I saw more of it. Read >>
UPCOMING: June 2008 An all poetry issue featuring new work by A.R. Ammons, Charles Simic, A.E. Stallings, Tom Sleigh, Geoffrey Brock, Harry Clifton, Nance Van Winckel, Sophie Cabot Black, W.S. Di Piero, Robert VanderMolen, Joel Brouwer, Roddy Lumsden, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Meghan O’Rourke, Landis Everson, Todd Hearon, Marianne Boruch, D.A. Powell, Ange Mlinko, Charles Bernstein, Peter Cole, Rae Armantrout, Donald Revell, and Glyn Maxwell. Subscribe today >>


	Translation Issue: this special issue features poems translated from eighteen languages, including new versions from Anna Akhmatova, Håkan Sandell, Yves Bonnefoy, Miroslav Holub, Rainer Maria Rilke, Olav Hague, Ho Xuan Huong, and Ovid, among others; translated and with commentary by Mary Kinzie, Forrest Gander, Marilyn Chin, Don Paterson, Eavan Boland, Robert Bly, Frederick Seidel, Peter Cole, Menna Elfyn, Daryl Hine, and many more. Table of Contents >>

	New poems—each accompanied by a Q&A with the author—from Campbell McGrath, Jánoz Pilinsky (translated by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri), H.L. Hix, Karl Kirchwey, A.E. Stallings, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Ange Mlinko, W.S. Di Piero, and Heather McHugh; and prose from Joel Brouwer. Table of Contents >>

	New poems from Louise Glück, Samuel Beckett, Heidy Steidlymayer, Lynn Emanuel, Jeffrey Schultz, Lisa Williams, Jorie Graham, Larissa Szporluk, and George Szirtes; and prose from Peter Campion, Alexei Tsvetkov, and D.H. Tracy. Table of Contents >>

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