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“I’ll Settle for a Moment of Glory”: Lesbian-Feminist Poetry in Washington
“What was it like?”
“You have a beautiful voice”: snippets of a laureateship
😶, 💩, 😞: Ravi Shankar
2012
26 | Sandy Hook*
5AM Blues
8Rock Collective
be loving ourselves/be sisters
: Lucille Clifton Reminds Us that We are American Poetry
A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance
A Blizzard Blues
A Brother, A Neighbor, A Washingtonian: Gil Scott-Heron
A Hindu Prayer
A Hip-Hop Sonnet
A Jewish Cemetery in Büdingen, Germany
A Present
A Small Tribute to Philip Levine
A Splendid Wake Issue
A Sterling of a Man
A Writing Assignment from Rita Dove
Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia
Affinity with Orwell
After I Xeroxed the Sky
After Memo Writing
After the Mammogram
Against the Wall
Ahmos Zu-Bolton’s Poetry of Invention
Alain Ginsberg Portfolio
Alchemy; House: Grace Cavalieri
Alice
Ammi, A Prayer: Adeeba Shahid Talukder
An Accounting
An Area of Possible Encounter: William Stafford in Washington, DC
An Interview with James A. Emanuel
An Old Man Listening to a Young Man Listening to Whitman
Andrea Carter Brown: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Anna Nicole’s Dream
Annie Finch Portfolio
Annual Report
Ante Sandy
ARGUMENT, DOLE V. ARCO – 921 F.2d 484 (3d Cir. 1990)
As Powerful as a Gun
At the Emlekpont Remembrance Museum
At the One Step
At the Trolley Museum
At Watergate
autobiography
Autumnal
Back to the Woods
Baltimore Sun
Barbara Goldberg Translates Moshe Dor
Because I Could Mumble Some Words
Betty’s Book
Big Bang
Billy Collins Interview
billy eckstine comes to washington, d.c.
Birdland
Black Hawk Waltz
Black Schist
blues poem
Bones
Bound
Brag: Karl Carter
Brian Gilmore on “May Miller, The Silence”
Brian Gilmore: Tenth Anniversary
Brothers
Burgi Zenhaeusern Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Busman
Cabinet of curiosities; Far Planet: Marc Vincenz
Cacayo Ballesteros
Careless Love
Case Statement
Cecelia Was Born in Chicago And This Imprinted on Her Life
Cemetery
Charles Wright Interview
Chopin in Exile; Playing Brahms’ Intermezzo in A Major: Carol Jennings
Christina Daub Translates Blanca Wiethüchter
Christmas Day in Washington
Chronicling Our Splintered Age: Patricia Spears Jones; Reviewed by Luther Jett
Citizen’s Arrest; Pine Hollow Convict; Fertility Doctor: Margo Taft Stever
Claim Our Chaos
coffee with a married woman
Coming Home To A Mangrove Forest, Diana Woodcock
Constellations
Corona Contemplations: Beth Wolfe
Cotton Farm Blues
Cratchit’s Christmas
Crossings
Cycles
Dan Vera on Sterling A. Brown
Dan Vera: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Danielle Badra Portfolio
Danielle Evennou Portfolio
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka Translates Lidia Kosk
David Keplinger Translates Jan Wagner
DC Poetry Anthologies
DC Slam History
Dear Eastern: Don Berger
Deborah Sobeloff Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Decoration Day Poem
Deep in These Woods
Deferment; Count: Luther Jett
Delicious, New Edition, 1986
Detective Lennie Briscoe: This is His Story
Didn’t We…
Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Dig, Find, Make Way
Down the Aisle
Dream Variation
Drowning; Family Dinner: A Metaphysical Check-In; Escape and Loss; Eyes of the Dead: Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Early Cinema
Elisavietta Ritchie Translates Anna Akhmatova
Erg
Excerpt from
Graffiti Calculus
Facebook Message
Failed Sonnet After the Verdict
Festival of Season Words
Fingering the Past
First Books II
First Books III
First Freed
First Fruit (And Aftermath)
Five Poems
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Five Poems by Anne Lynch Botta
Five Poems by Anya Creightney
Five Poems by Audrey Wurdemann
Five Poems by Carolyn Joyner
Five Poems by Gregg Wilhelm
Five Poems by Jona Colson
Five Poems from
Between Gods
Five Poems from
Drift
Five Poems from
How to Prove a Theory
Five Poems from
Lion Brothers
Five Poems from
Meanwhile
Five Poems from
Meeting Bone Man
Five Poems from
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Five Poems from
The Heart of a Comet
Five Poems from
Umberto’s Night
Five Poems from
When the World Breaks Open
Five Poems in Response to “Julius Caesar”
Five Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”
Flamenco: Alexis Soto (translated by Allyson Lima)
Floricanto
Fly
For Ann Darr at the Air and Space Museum
For Léon Damas
For My Beloved
For My Cross-Dressing Friends
For Peace in the Valley
For The Freddies (And Curtis Mayfield): Bernardine (Dine)Watson
Four excerpts from
Scar Tissue
Four excerpts from
The South Orange Sonnets
Four Poems
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Four Poems by Carlo T. Paul
Four Poems by Kimberly A. Collins
Four Poems by Natalie Clifford Barney
Four Poems by Rasha Abdulhadi
Four Poems by Ryan Wilson
Four Poems from
Blue Skies
Four Poems from
Boyishly
Four Poems from
Compass
Four Poems from
Day of the Border Guards
Four Poems from
Elegies for New York Avenue
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Four Poems from
Immigrant
Four Poems from
In the Company of Spirits
Four Poems from
La luz de la tormenta/The Light of the Storm
Four Poems from
Loose Weather
Four Poems from
Monster
Four Poems from
Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown
Four Poems from
Stronger Than Cleopatra
Four Poems from
The Invented Child
Four Poems from
The Silent Art
Four Poems from
Words Facing East
Four Poems from
Words We Might One Day Say
Four Poems in Response to “Julius Caesar”
Four Poems in Response to “Mary Stuart”
Four Poems in Response to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Four Poems in Response to “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
Fourteen Poems by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Frac/tions
Friday Night
Friend
From
Sonnets from E
From Dung Beetles to Bingo
From Friends to Griots: The Modern Urban Griots
From June 2015 in LGBTQ History
Full Moon on K Street
Gallery at the Tate
Gerry & Ray; A Hive; School Bully Song: John Wall Barger
Godmother; Sheet Music; Microelectronic Sonnet: Terence Patrick Winch.
Golem Event
Good Friday
Goodbye Bouquet; New York in Our Hearts; Alone: Jennifer Rathbun
Grace Cavalieri: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Grass
Gravity
Gray Jacobik
Great music: Dmitry Blizniuk
Grief
Guilford Courthouse
Gypsy Girls
Harlem
He Couldn’t Swim; The Year Before The Virus; Small Wars: Mervyn Taylor
Henge
Hilary Tham: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Holly Karapetkova Translates Dostena Lavergne
Holly Karapetkova Translates Kiril Merjanski
Homage
Homeward endlessly homeward (sigh): Kirk Greenway
Homing; Come and find me; Singularity: Anne Casey
Honest Hope: Stephen Paul Miller
Hong Kong: Anonymous
House Musicians: Allyson Lima
How the Past Appeared
How To Speak American
How to Visit Baba Yaga
How We Crumble: Jalyce E. Mangum
How We Were, How We Are
Howard Nemerov
Hunted
i come to the city
I Woke from the Dream
I’m In Love with the Morton Salt Girl
Impossible Bottle
In Every Dream an Orphan Builds a House
In Siberia
In the Garden
In the Magnificent Region of Courage: An Interview with Louise Glück
In the Weeds; What I Had and What I Lost; What Remains: Susana Case
Indigo
Indran Amirthanayagam
Inner Light; What do you make; What are you drinking; Not traveling: Joan Mazza
Interludes at Union Station; Colony Collapse Disorder: Raga Ayyagari.
Interrupted transmissions
Interval
Interview with Danish Kroner
Interview with Josephine Jacobsen
Interview with Kim Roberts
Interview with May Miller
Interview with Richard Wilbur
Interview with Sterling A. Brown
Interview with Ted Kooser
Intraducible/Untranslatable
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction and Table of Contents: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue
Introduction and Table of Contents: Plan B Press Issue
Introduction to Some Of Us Press Issue
Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue
Introduction to the Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue
Introduction to The Jewish Issue
Introduction to the LGBTQ Issue
Introduction to the Poetry in Translation Issue
Introduction to the Slam Issue
Introduction to the Sonnet Issue
Introduction to the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
Introduction to U.S. Poets Laureate Issue, Part II
Introduction, “Poets Respond to Shakespeare”
Introduction: Envisioning the Future
Introduction: Poets in Federal Government Issue
Isabel’s Corrido
It is a Living Coral
It’s Possible I’m Too Bougie to Be Free
J. Edgar Song
James Dickey: In Touch with Darkness
January 21, 2013
Je suis Paris, Never Haiti: Luz Stella Mejía
Job 62
John Guzlowski Translates Henryk Cierniak
Jona Colson Translates Miguel Avero
Judgment of Paris
Julia Leverone Translates Francisco Urondo
July in Washington
Kaleidoscope
Karl Shapiro, Poet and Anti-Critic
Karl W. Carter, Jr.
Kateema Lee Portfolio
Katie Davis: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Keith Cohen Translates Joseph Polius
Kennedy Center
Kim Roberts on Georgia Douglas Johnson
Kindness
Kwame Alexander: Tenth Anniversary Issue
La Petite Amie
Lake Rosseau, Canada
Larry Neal: In Service of Art
Lately
Leda in Red Sneakers: A Remembrance of Mona Van Duyn
Leeya Mehta Portfolio
Literary Organizations Issue
Lives Like Otters, Seen by Angels
Looking at Buds
Love Among the Ruins
Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices
Love’s Testament
Macomb Street Workshops
Mapping the City
Marching On; Sophia Naz.
Mary Timony is the Neighbor I Hate the Least
Mathematics of a Storm Surge
Maureen Thorson: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Max and Frieda’s Guide to Fine Dining for Sexagenerians
Mea Culpa
Mercy
Merrill Leffler on Ernest Kroll (1913-1995)
Merrill Leffler: Tenth Anniversary
Messages from the Other World
Metal Anniversary
Michelangelo’s David
Migraine; ‘America is Dead’: Serena Agusto-Cox
Minus the Body
Mirrors
Misty Friday Morning
moneymaker
Montana Terrace
Monumental Merrill
Moonlight Dries No Mittens: Carl Sandburg Reconsidered
Moonrise Over Washington
More A’s B’s C’s & D’s, or The President Is About To Grab Victim’s Money Like It’s Pussy
Morning with Butter Sky
Mother Night
Multitasking
Mural for the Heart
My Jacob
My Mother’s Belly
Mycophobia: Jeannine M. Pitas
Myra Sklarew on William Stafford
Nafas in the Kitchen; To the Israeli Officer Who X-rayed and Swabbed Our Mother’s Ashes: Zeina Azzam
Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Pham Lê Translate Lê Pham Lê
Naomi Ayala: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Natasha Trethewey Interview
Natural
Necessity; Lines In A Time of Lockdown; When You Are Called; Does Not Your Experience…: Bonnie Naradzay
Ned Balbo Translates Georg Trakl
Never
New York
Nine Poems by Charlotte Forten Grimké
Nine Poems by Gwendolyn Bennett
Nine Poems in Response to Richard III
No Crying in Baseball
No Longer Disastrous
Not a Ghazal: Snapshots from the Museum of Life
Not Thirst. Preparation.
Note to An Old Friend: Nancy Lefenfeld
Notes on Debridement
Now Let the City Slumber
Ode to Urban Dictionary
Of Course, Volcanic Activity Has Nothing To Do With Climate Change
Of Thee I Sing III – America You Deserve
Offbounce: Jules Desroches
Office Suicide
Old Coat
Old Egg
On Archibald MacLeish
On Sensitivity: A Brief Philosophy of Political Choice
On the Bus with Rita Dove
On the Incoming Tide
One Poem
One Poem from
These Days
Ooth Jazz
Oracle of the First Kiss
Orphan of Silence: Charles Simic
Our Situation By W. Luther Jett: Reviewed by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Outerspace
Paperwork, Your Name is Martha
Passer domesticus: Mark Pawlak
Patricia Davis Translates Francisco de Oraá
Patricia Davis Translates Juan Garrido Salgado
Patricia Davis Translates Lucia Robles
Peer Review
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Federal Worker
Père Lachaise Cemetery, 1991: William Notter
Periplum
Perspective from My Parents’ Bed
Peter
Peter Montgomery on Eugene McCarthy (March 29, 1916, Minnesota – December 10, 2005, Washington, DC)
Pioneers of a New Breed
Poem, Valentina Rojas: Translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems, Lilian Silva: Translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems, Renato Sandoval: Translated by Roxana Peramás
Poetic Ancestors
Poetry and Happiness
Poetry Behind the Scenes at the Library of Congress
Prawn Woman
Preface to the Some Of Us Press Issue
Preserve
Prizes
Prom
Prose Poem Issue
Prose Poem Issue Introduction
Puppeteer
Queer Currency
Queuing for Lenin
Randall Jarrell in Washington
Randi Ward Translates Guðrið Helmsdal
Reasons for Poetry
Red Cabooses
Red-Winged Blackbird at Gettysburg Field
Regie Cabico on Essex Hemphill
Regie Cabico: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Reinaldo Arenas and Roberto Valero: Friends and Exiles in Washington, DC
Relax, Relate, Release
Remembered by Name
Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
Resurrection Issue
Returning
Reunion/
Teshuvah
Revisionist History
Rick Black translates Rachel Bluwstein
Rita Dove Interview
Robert Hayden on the Art of Saying What Cannot Be Said
Robert Pinsky Interview
Rochester and Jane on the Kiss-Cam
Rod Jellema Translates J.D. DeJong
Rod Jellema Translates Tjitte Piebenga
Rod Jellema Translates Tsjêbbe Hettinga
Rodeo, North Dakota
Roland Flint and Siv Cedering Fox
Ryan Wilson Translates Horace
Sam Allen, aka Paul Vesey
San-San Tin Translates San-San Tin
Sarah Browning: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Saundra Rose Maley Translates Rainer Maria Rilke
Saundra Rose Maley: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Saxophone Lesson
Scars of Last Year’s Leaves
Schmaltz
Selected Haiku from The Magic of Madagascar: Abhay K.
Selektion (1943): Michael H. Levin
Self-Driven: Ariel Montoya, translated by Silvia Rafti
Self-Portrait with Ball; Lament for an Accountant (1959); A Memorable Occasion: Opening the Doors; At the orphanage Lee told another kid that; On a Contemporary Locution: Baron Wormser
Sergio Waisman Translates Yaki Setton
Seven excerpts from the DC Sonnets
Seven Poems
Seven Poems
Seven Poems
Seven Poems
Seven Poems by Elinor Wylie
Seven Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”
Shake, Alabama
Shallows II
Shard
Shelter in Place
Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Caddo Parish
Shoes of the Dead
Six Poems
Six Poems
Six Poems
Six Poems
Six Poems by Anthony Hecht
Six Poems by Reed Whittemore
Six Poems from
A Language the Land is Inventing
Six Poems from
The January Children
Six Poems from
The Mustard Seed
Slack Tide, Massey’s Landing, David Salner
Sleep and go tidal
Slow Through the Dark
Snowbound
Some Notes on Form
Some of My Favorite Jokes
Sonnet
Sonnet 130; Sonnet 129: Liza Achilles
Sonnet 57
Sonnet for a Namesake
Sonnet for This Week’s Terror Alert
Sonnet on an Old Comic Strip
Sonnet, for Alice
Sonny Boy Williamson I: Clifford Bernier
Spacer
Spectacles
Spender on Political Poetry in the 1930s and Auden’s Poetic Brinksmanship
Stanley Kunitz: Naked in His Prose
Startled
sterling brown’s house, washington dc 1990’s
Storm Crossing Key Bridge
Subject to Change
sunset from the cliffs; when it drops you gonna feel it: Karren LaLonde Alenier
Survivor’s Song
Swing It
Tea in the Late Afternoon
Tender Days
Tenth Anniversary Issue
Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown
Teri Ellen Cross: Tenth Anniversary Issue
The “Thinghood” of Monuments
The arc of the rainbow has only one arrow: Kirk Greenway
The Baby
The Ballad of Alice Hortense
The Bard of Main 903: M.L. Rosenthal Revisited
The Bee
The Blue Years; When The Sky Is Upside Down: E. Ethelbert Miller
The Boatman: Carolyn Forché
The Collector; Global Warning: W. Luther Jett
The Columbiad
The Commuter
The Correction
The Correspondence of Louise Bogan
The Curse
The Day of the Gwendolyn
The Elephant in the Room: Kay Ryan
The Facts of Life
The Field at Potts Camp
the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.
The Generous Spirit of American Poetry: An Interview with Joseph Brodsky
The Goldfinch
The Happy Genius of the Household
The Howard Poets
The Howard Poets in Perspective
The Immigrant Museum
The Imperial Cockroach; The South, Entropy: Jonathan Harrington
The Joke
The Library and its Laureates: The Examples of Auslander, Williams, Dickey & Kumin
The Lyrebird
The Makers of Memorials
The Marital Bed
The Mechanical Jew
The Meeting
The Melancholy Sound Of Fog Horns; To Merope, Somewhere In The Sky: Stephen Dunn
The Neighborhood, Changing
The Neon Distances
The New Normal: Gillian Thomas
The Poet and the Mule
The Poetry Office: A Photo Essay
The Sick Person
The Snake
The Snares of This World; Walking the River: Roberto Christiano
The Summer Without a Bug, Bruce Spang
The Switch
The Tecata Dances on Park Road
The Tenaciousness of Spark Matsunaga
The Uncontrollable Elements: An Interview with Mark Strand
The Viscosity of Corona Time: Carol Jennings
The Woman’s Wardrobe
The Writer Who Changed the Future: On Gwendolyn Brooks
There are No Black Bears in My State, Ron Riekki
Things I never want to hear again about race and racism
Things My Mother Taught Me
Thinking of James Wright
Thirteen Moons: Mark Pawlak
Thirteen Poems by Leonora Speyer
Three Anecdotes About Anthony Hecht
Three Ghazals
Three Lessons Lawrence Wheatley Dropped on Spanish Joe
Three Minutes Apart
Three Poems
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Three poems from
Blocks
Three poems from
Edge
Three Poems from
High There
Three poems from
Ice Fishing
Three Poems from
Moving Violation
Three poems from
Rocks and Chairs
Three Poems from
The Ultimate Double Play
Three Poems in Response to “Richard III”
Three Poems in Response to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug
Three Translations of Poems About Moscow
Three translations of poems by Gerardo Diego
Three translations of poems by Rene Char
Three untitled poems
Three Winter Poems
Ting Wang Translates Chen Li
To Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Crusader
To John Brown
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké
To My Laundress
To the Dunbar High School
Toad
Toni Asante Lightfoot: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Trimming Plastic Flowers
Two Poems
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Two Poems from
A Little Truth on Your Shirt
Two Poems from
Boning Up
Two Poems from
Lamplights Used to Feed the Deer
Two Poems in Response to Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Prose Poems
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Two Sonnets
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Unfurl the Flags of April
United and the PBGC
US Landscapes
Variety in Poetry
Vegan
Vestiges
Visiting the Convent at San Marco; On Expecting a Notice of Eviction: Catherine Gonick
Visits to St. Elizabeths
Vodka in the Freezer; puddles: Caleb Knight
W.S. Merwin and Eco-Justice
Walt Whitman Visits the Civil War Hospital in the Patent Office (Now the National Portrait Gallery)
Walt’s Notebook
Washington Migrants
Watch Your Ears
Watching Godzilla in 3D
We repeat our names to each other
Whale Songs
What Part of Me Will Die Today?
What to Call Her
When I’m Gone, I’ll Come Back as a Window; You Won’t Know This Love; Love in the Arctic: Claudia Serea
While in Pursuit of the Perfect Summer Purse
White
Why I Don’t Write Nature Poems
Wiedergutmachung
Woman’s Home
Work Song
Working for the Government
Yoga
Your Favorite Number
Your Poem
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher Translate Maria Teresa Ogliastri