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Jennifer Maiden

...century share the stage with politicians, terrorists, dissidents and fictional creations from our continuous present. Combining a free-wheeling, meditative style with crisp, lucidly elegant lines, Maiden’s philosophical verse investigates the...

Ghassan Zaqtan

...swims and gates open in the brush and where someone is talking down the slope and bells are heard and the rustles of flapping wings resemble the forest passing over...

Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner’s Pond which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was...

Anne Carson

...see it coming / well didn’t you / what I saw coming was the atomic essence of the Visible brought to such density its Incandescence left no place for anyfuckingthing...

Tomasz Rรณลผycki

...turn to ash, dust, coal, compost where insects live and snails leave tracks you ask about at dawn. Once, at the world’s end, I threw a stone into the open...

Mira Rosenthal

...can come out, it’s over. And the ground, and moles and earthworms in it, shifted, shook, kingdoms of ants came crawling, bees began to fly from everywhere. I said come...

Brenda Hillman

...for Poetry. Hillman serves as a professor and poet-in-residence at St. Mary’s College in Morago, California. She is also on the poetry staff at Community of Writers and Napa Valley...

Russell Thornton

...after page, in line after line, we hear the ancient, communal music of language sung through a consciousness of maturity, loss, and restless spiritual hunger. The poems in The Hundred...