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To withdraw a poem or send an inquiry, please email [email protected].

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“[“I knew almost for certain…”]” by Vasyl Stus (translated by Alan Zhukovski)

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from Elisa Gabbert’s “Random Assignment”:

You can't ever get what you want,
You can't please any of the people
Any of the time.

Time just lies there,
Not fast or slow,
Any more than a line.

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in the January issue of @thenation

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from “Stay-at-Home” by Matthew Buckley Smith:

“Bedtime grows later. There is always hope
For sex if we’re not tired. We’re tired a lot.
My wife works hard. I do the best I can.
No one who looks at me can see a man.”

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in the September issue of @thenation

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Our language, just like every other catch phrase and dance move, taken,
appropriated, pop-culturalized into a tweetable talking point. Now we're “woke.”

—from January O’Neil’s “Woke Ghazal”

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“Here lies Antoinette and

a facsimile report on the dearth of

formula water milk toilet paper bread

all gone during a juicy-sesh of self-care

slash thoughts and prayers. Headless,

we got carried away.”

—Jessica Q. Stark, “Royal Pardon”

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“Cousin Rust,
with your look of blood
and sunset,

I’m almost in love
with the lace you’ve made

of metal”

from “Witch” by Rae Armantrout

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in the latest issue of @thenation

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“some day the night curved as a sky sinking inside an eye”

from Michael Wasson’s “Of Historical Significance

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in the latest issue of @thenation

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excerpts from L. Lamar Wilson’s “Missionary”

https://t.co/BuiM3o4V6q

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May 30, 2024

L. Lamar Wilson’s poetics appears in two collections, Sacrilegion and Prime; the stage production The Gospel Truth; and the film The Changing Same, a Rada Film Group collaboration.

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“My mother is my favorite immigrant.
After her? The sonnet.”

—Eduardo C. Corral, “To a Blossoming Saguaro”

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Happy Mother’s Day!

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“I had been lied to. Women, too, were violent.”

from “Sapphic Fragment” by Madeleine Cravens @madeleinecrave_

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May 2, 2024

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Happy national poetry month!

On the first day of April, we offer you this excerpt from “Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina?” by Brandy Nālani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, and No’u Revilla

For a full experience of this polyphonic poem: https://t.co/6KE5aSjD86

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“Because I was terrified, I learned nothing.”

—Paul Guest, “Walking the Land”

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Camille Dungy’s latest poem “Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook our dinner at the feet of Colorado’s Front Range” below:

https://t.co/Htnkukbis3

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“I admitted am not a good man. I am selfish.
I have my father’s dentition, his regalia of shame.”

—Akpa Arinzechukwu, “Sentencing”

Read poem here: https://t.co/dSCz3Fv0MO

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new poem in the march issue of @thenation--thanks @NationPoetry 💜💜

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“Come REM, come starry comas sopped in sepia,
how come you keep on slipping past my sleepier
defenses, the walk-on cameo of my dreams?”

from "A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You" by Christopher Spaide

#latest in print #poem from #thenation

March 2024 issue

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“Sputnik in the news. Mother in her vestal suit,
clutching the whimpering canine,

both of them orphans, inscrutable.
Stray

smiles emerging. Did I imagine it?”

—Safiya Sinclair, “After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, II (Laika)”

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“Night Watch” by Catherine Barnett:

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"Don't worry, I will return," were not his dying words.
He had no dying words.

There was no pretense, no implosion.
11:00 p.m.

He was quiet, remote, dying,
sheer as a curtain.

exc. from Catherine Barnett’s “Night Watch”

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