Poetry
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“Everything only connected by ‘and’ and ‘and’”: On Elizabeth Bishop and Disappointment
In prose that’s erudite and accessible, former Editor-in-Chief of At Length, Jonathan Farmer, explores why…
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Whistlejacket
“[W]hat am I to do / about beauty, about / my fear that beauty //…
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Sarracenia
“[H]ow do they bear this heat Who / knows who can say what will change,”…
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Small Essays on Disappearance
“All / my life sacrificed to the arrogance of cities, / their empires of skin.”…
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Tarot/Death
“I have to invent him as a little boy / because loving him was grief-stained.…
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Irma
“When I say ‘te amo,’ I bend a border to you.” Shifting from word to…
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Nonnus of Panopolis’s Dionysiaca: Book 7
From a new translation of the longest surviving poem from Ancient Greece, the story of…
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Wrong
“It’s not just you who has it wrong./It’s not just people. It’s every song.” Out…
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Four Poems on Sally, Dick, and Jane
“Sometimes Dad naps on the sofa. / Pray is like play is like sleep. /…
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Abyssal
“From your flesh I’d grow a garden, / I’d make a forest of your bones.”…
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The Cats of Old San Juan
“The cats are here because of the rats. / The rats are here because of…
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Three Dramatic Monologues
Three new poems from Matthew Buckley Smith present a medieval mother reckoning with forebodings of…
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Cicada Meditation
“the most isolated / simply settled anywhere, everywhere / else, making grass blades into cat…
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