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October 2016

Marion Kadi, "Mille et Une Nuits," 2015

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

Cynthia Zarin
Carolyn Forché
Jessica Greenbaum
Thomas Lux
Kaveh Akbar

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Poetry Magazine Cover for October of 2016

From this Issue

- poem
  
  Sunday
  
  By Cynthia Zarin
  
  i early morning
  
  The rain, gray god with its huge hands
  has shredded the roses, and clapping,
  kept us up all night, the bridge washed out,
  the troll waiting to gobble a goat.
  How long has he been there, wet and cold,
  impatient, starving, his coat
  rent...
  
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- poem
  
  The Boatman
  
  By Carolyn Forché
  
  We were thirty-one souls all, he said, on the gray-sick of sea
  in a cold rubber boat, rising and falling in our filth.
  By morning this didn’t matter, no land was in sight,
  all were soaked to the bone, living and dead.
  We could...
  
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- poem
  
  Days I Delighted in Everything
  
  By Jessica Greenbaum
  
  I was listening to a book on tape while driving
  and when the author said, “Those days I delighted in everything,”
  I pulled over and found a pencil and a parking ticket stub
  because surely there was a passage of life where I...
  
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Table of Contents

Poems

Cynthia Zarin
- Sunday
Carolyn Forché
- The Boatman
- Mourning
Jessica Greenbaum
- Days I Delighted in Everything
Thomas Lux
- Ode to the Electric Fish that Eat Only the Tails of Other Electric Fish,
Kaveh Akbar
- Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus
- River of Milk
Lani O'Hanlon
- A Copper Basin in Florence
Henry Gould
- Cedar Replica
Marianne Boruch
- The No-Name Tapestries
- The Anti-Grief
Isabel Rogers
- Watching the Perseids
- Grave robbing
Patrick Cotter
- Time Traveler
Daisy Fried
- No God in Us but Song
Yuki Tanaka
- Death in Parentheses
Yusef Komunyakaa
- Our Side of the Creek
- Blackamoors, Villa La Pietra
Kerri Webster
- Hermeneutics
Laurie Clements Lambeth
- Cusped Prognosis
Joshua Bennett
- Owed to Pedagogy
Michael Robbins
- Know It All
Rosebud Ben-Oni
- Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7
Michael Symmons Roberts
- Nativity Scene in Bullet-Time
Calvin Forbes
- The Card Players
- Shakespeare and the Blues
S.J. Fowler
- The Robin Hood Estate
David St. John
- The Last Troubadour
Victoria Chang
- Barbie Chang’s Tears
Randall Mann
- Dolores Park
Elise Paschen
- Lear’s Wife
Drew Swinger
- Sonnet for Brett Foster
Lisa Gill
- Post-Traumatic Rainstorm
- Fig, Folded
Clare Pollard
- Pinocchios
- Leviathan
Wayne Holloway-Smith
- Some Waynes
Ken Chen
- You May Visit the Cosmos but You May Not Speak of It (or on the Tackiness of Elegy).

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