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Introduction
Poems and Essays:
“Not for Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet” by Martín Espada
$80,000, The Panic Room: Louisa Schnaithmann
😶, 💩, 😞: Ravi Shankar
…And Time Said to Me: Nadine Ltaif, translated by Christine Tipper
1/6/21 early impressions: David G. Lott
By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital
, Edited by Kim Roberts (University of Virginia Press, 2020)
A complete and perfect silence; Stick to intention; We are not separate: Peter Grandbois
A NON-FICTION POEM: Jaime Manrique
A Tree; Green Hat; What the Dog Says, Goes: Yu Xinqiao, translated by Anne Henochowicz
A Villanelle after Trump: Kimiko Hahn
After the Election, Oakland Burns Down; Reading a Carl Phillips Poem Days after the 2020 Election from an Unread 2002 Issue of the Indiana Review, I Fall in Love, All Over, Again; Rock, Scissors, Paper, the Anniversary Edition, 11 September 2020; Why Law and Order Will Never Be Cancelled: Sandra Yannone
Agoraphobia, Mannequin, Dear Vovo: Serena Agusto-Cox
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess’s Complaint; Hopper’s Summer: Luis Francia
Angular Unconformity, Luster, Rain Shadow, Wrapped: Carole Greenfield
Anniversary Elegy; Landscape in December; Rebuttal: Maurya Simon
Antigone in Haiti: Sarah Thilykou
Arrivals: Dominique Hecq
Art in Times of Crises, Volume I
Art In Times of Crises, Volume II
Back Nine Back Story; Boom-Boom In The Uber Room; Unfunded Phrenology Mandates; Rates of Exchange; Dirt Devils: Marc Nasdor
Beginning of the Shifts; Another Morning the Heat Has Us; Corvid Teachings: Chad Norman
Bharata; Kashmir Sequence; Nightcap: Amit Majmudar
Bhaubeej Blessing For Our Brother: Ujjvala Bagal Rahn
Blue Coronet, Grey Area, Eighteen, Il passagio della morte (Passage of Death): Dawad Philip
Butterfly; Rain, Star & Moon; Rainbow: Mari Kashiwagi, translated by Takako Lento
Cabinet of curiosities; Far Planet: Marc Vincenz
Citizen’s Arrest; Pine Hollow Convict; Fertility Doctor: Margo Taft Stever
Come Si Dice Sponge:Jim Petterson
Corps Lumière / Body Light: Siham Bouhlal, selections translated by Lulu Norman
Crooked Time; Meme; Lucky e Zorba: Antje Stehn
Deferment; Count: Luther Jett
Del buen sentido (Of Good Sense), Poema dos (Poem 2), Las muertas de Juárez (The Dead Women of Juarez): Carlos Aguasaco, translated by Carol O’Flynn, Pilar González
Destino (Destiny), Desalojo (Sweeping Out), Estrellas (Stars), Mirar el sol (Look at the Sun), Natacha Feliz Franco, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Disorder
El Sueño del Mundo (Dream of the World): Ada Zapata-Arriarán, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Epiphany: Beth Dulin
Estiletes (fratura 1)/ Daggers (Fracture 1); Ordem da horda 1/The Way of the Horde 1; Ordem da horda 2/The Way of the Horde 2; Vulto 1/Shade 1; Vulto 2/Shade 2; Vulto 3/Shade 3: Jose Salgado Maranhão, translated by Alexis Levitin
Everything All at Once: A Dialogical Review of Ravi Shankar’s The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1998-2018; Lisa Pegram and Paul T. Corrigan
Four Poems Listening to Music (Blues In The Night, Piece of my Heart, Gymnopedies, Night Train), February 1981: The Systematic Murder of Black Children–Dick Lourie
From ” The Damage Done”: Selections, Susana H. Case
From Thinaimayakkam allathu Nenchodu Kilaruthal (“Binary Overlapping or Speaking to the Heart”): R. Cheran, translated by Anushiya Ramaswamy & Geetha Sukumaran
Goodbye Bouquet; New York in Our Hearts; Alone: Jennifer Rathbun
Graph; Thickness: Marie-Ange Claude
Hand-me-down Hymnal; Superego: Oak Morse
Harbinger; At The Museum;Neighborhood Holiday Party: Terence Winch
He Couldn’t Swim; The Year Before The Virus; Small Wars: Mervyn Taylor
Himen Natural (Natural Hymen), De mi terciopelo bajan duendes con agallas magníficas. (From my velvet genies step down with magnificent desires.): Pauline Le Roy, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
History (redux); Walk on All Fours; Sirens in Queens: Andrei Codrescu
Honest Hope: Stephen Paul Miller
Hong Kong: Anonymous
icarus, a vampire sees the sunrise for the first time: Emma Jo Black
Inner Light; What do you make; What are you drinking; Not traveling: Joan Mazza
Instrucciones de uso (Usage Instructions): Chema Paz Gago, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Introduction
Introduction to Some Of Us Press Issue
Introduction to the Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue
Introduction to the LGBTQ Issue
Introduction, “Poets Respond to Shakespeare”
Introduction: Issue 22.3. Elegies/Lamentations/Prayers
Introduction: Issue 22.4 Rooted
Introduction: Poets in Federal Government Issue
Is Anyone Listening? Love that Cannot Live Long Enough: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Landscape: Fabricio Estrada, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Landslide; Turbulence: S.B. Merrow
Let Them Not Say, Vest, She Breathes in the Scent, Heels, My Hunger: Jane Hirshfield
Long Time Coming, Alien Creature at the Door, Christmas at Grandma’s, Teflon, Coming In Off the Farm: Donald Krieger
Los Amantes/The Lovers, Hablando con mi padre/Talking with my Father: Marilia Peceros Valencia, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Lost Day: Carolyn Tipton
Lot fala com o anjo (Lot Speaks to the Angel), Folhas Novas (Fresh Leaves), Através da chuva e da névoa ( Through Rain & Fog), Um dia não muito longe não muito perto (One Day Not Too Far Off and Not Too Soon): Ruy Belo, translated by Alexis Levitin
Malach HaMavet; Egg, Seed, Pupa, Spore; Labor: Lisa Rosinsky
Mama, Who’d Have Thought: Zilka Joseph
March 21, 2021; Patricia Spears Jones
March 23:1 Introduction
Mientras nacen las ciudades (While cities are born), Natalia Gomez, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Migraine; ‘America is Dead’: Serena Agusto-Cox
MTA MONOLOGUES: Berra Akcan
My Body, My Choice? Anum Sattar
Necessity; Lines In A Time of Lockdown; When You Are Called; Does Not Your Experience…: Bonnie Naradzay
Nephophobia: Jeannine Pitas
No Modifier at All: Margo Berdeshevsky
Our Situation By W. Luther Jett: Reviewed by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Poem in Which I Dream of Ice; Hippo River: W. Luther Jett
Poem, Valentina Rojas: Translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems, Lilian Silva: Translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems, Renato Sandoval: Translated by Roxana Peramás
Postcard: Lake Calhoun, Minnesota*; Barbed Wire in the Desert*: Anya Achtenberg
Preface to the Some Of Us Press Issue
Prose Poem Issue Introduction
Reconstitute: Introduction, Issue 22.2
Retrato (Portrait), Vento (Wind): Astrid Cabral, translated by Alexis Levitin
Review of Indran Amirthanayagam’s The Migrant States; by Jonathan Harrington
Rien (Nothing), Veuillez m’excuser pour ce retard (Please Excuse Me for Being Late), Mon ventre (Womb), Katia-Sofia Hakim: translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Rules for the Direction of the Maid: Dawn Potter
Salute to a Snail in Jail; The Anatomy of Melancholy; Twenty Six Factorial; “Sulmo Mihi Patria Est”; M Theory; God Botherers: Şebnem Şenyener
Selected Haiku from The Magic of Madagascar: Abhay K.
Self Portrait In A Laundromat Mirror; Passport to Equality; Don’t I Wish I Was Taking Giant Steps: Karthik Purushothaman
Self-Driven: Ariel Montoya, translated by Silvia Rafti
Shock, Enrique Bernales Albites: Translated by Sarli E. Mercado and Lori DiPrete Brown
Soy un río (I Am a River), Una idea en el comienzo (An Idea In the Beginning), Poética (Poetics): Jorge Contreras Herrera, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Subh-e-firaaq: Morning of Separation; at West 4th; Until; Image: Adeeba Shahid Talukder
Sunday, Jack Tar Hotel, Room 773, Three O’clock: Kevin Grauke
Syrian Refugee at the Dental Clinic; Traveling with the Speed of Light: Zeina Azzam
Take me to the light – where: Antigoni Katsadima
Take, If I Saw You Now, Other Fish: Karina van Berkum
The Dream Returned: Introduction
The Patent Lawyer Had It Wrong; Listen to the Drums; All the Stops; Shifting Planktons of Later Joy; I Was Always On An Aeroplane: Marc Vincenz
The Pure: Adeeba Shahid Talukder
The Screeching Of Cats In Thessalonica: Jennifer O’Riordan
The Snooker Room, Winter Freezes Trees In Tortured Positions: Willa Schneberg
Under the Umbrella, Silent Scream, Traveling Light: Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Under; At your window; Sylvie Poisson, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Unstitched threads; Earthworms; Changing: Antje Stehn
Viral Dream: Rana Bitar
Vodka in the Freezer; puddles: Caleb Knight
We Snowed to Show our Intention; Rings; Doubt Is Never the Burden; Banishing Creature Fear: Sara Cahill Marron
When We Lose Poems, Mario Murgia; Barbarians, Antonio Rodríguez Jiménez; Catalogue of Bones, Cesar Vallejo: translated by Alfred Corn
Why I couldn’t sleep until morning: Tara Campbell
Word Associations: Clinical Global Impression: Lela Hannah Ross
You Say We’re Like Magnets; The River: Kristin Ferragut
Your Lotus Gaze; I am a Shrine: Kashiana Singh