MECHANICAL PENCIL by Duy Đoàn
"Every variation I try has that line under it: red, squiggly, foreboding failure." — Duy Đoàn
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
“Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.” — Robert Hass
Learning Italian Slowly by David Shumate
“Sometimes I feel my new Italian self growing inside / me. He’s a little man who gesticulates as he speaks.” — David Shumate
Rituals of Language by Nur Turkmani
“If only I leave it alone. / If only you ask where it hurts.” — Nur Turkmani
Night Journal by Charles Wright
“Abstracted as water glints, / The fields lion-colored and rope-colored, / As in a picture of Paradise,” — Charles Wright
Who Is a Poet by Tadeusz Rozewicz
“one who has been inclined to fall / and one who raises himself” — Tadeusz Różewicz
soil by Irène Mathieu
“maybe there is soul under everything, / even when we strike rock first.” — Irène Mathieu
Grief by Victoria Chang
“The grief remains but is changed by / what it is covered with. A picture of / oblivion is not the same as oblivion.” — Victoria Chang
