February 24, 2026
Board of Game
Read “Board of Game” from Joan Naviyuk Kane’s with snow pouring southward past the window published March 3, 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press. you who did not expecther to […]
November 7, 2025
Don’t Look Away
the black bear crossing the road on all fours, weightless as a shadow — the child, maybe five or six, standing safely in front of the red pears (limbs intact, two […]
November 7, 2025
stone butch sonnet
The Kenyon Review · “Stone Butch Sonnet” by Aishvarya Arora to say each curl & wavethat crowns my freshly shaved fadedraws hands to mehow outside the library on jackson avekernels […]
November 7, 2025
Self-Portrait as Philosophy
The Kenyon Review · “Self-Portrait as Philosophy” by Jane Yeh After three paintings by Soheila SokhanvariThe bagel of the afternoon is split down the middle — beforeAnd after. Tapping and tapping my […]
November 7, 2025
Self-Portrait as Proximity
The Kenyon Review · “Self-Portrait as Proximity” by Jane Yeh After two paintings by Soheila SokhanvariIt is 3:30 in the afternoon of my life. Things aren’t black and white anymore,The […]
November 7, 2025
Vox Humana with Fire
The Kenyon Review · “Vox Humana with Fire” by Donald Platt All I’ve ever wantedis for the great pipe organ of the English language to keep playing its fanfares,preludes, hymns, […]
November 6, 2025
Seasonal Plots (III)
November 6, 2025
Seasonal Plots (II)
November 6, 2025
The Sava, the Danube
A letter from my translator all the way in Serbia: about death — the kindthat sends a fox ahead of it, sickness — but above all she goes onabout life, about the stubborn translation […]
November 6, 2025
Eyeteeth
The Kenyon Review · “Eyeteeth” by Laura Marris And I have seen the wolves the dead send,running in their dioramasunder the northern lights, and the youngdeer in the velvet of […]
November 6, 2025
East Line Train
For Barry McKinnon and Kent Sedgwick and Ranjit Gill (The East Line towns — Shelley, Willow River, Giscome, Newlands, Aleza Lake, Upper Fraser, Hansard, McGregor, Dewey, Sinclair Mills, Hutton, Longworth, and Penny — along […]
November 6, 2025
Wiscasset Train
Called, having been understood to be familiar with some characteristics of the territory, called from the state of Maine itself, and asked to comment on James Weldon Johnson’s death there — railroad […]