Poetry

Poetry

The Poets Awoke

m. nourbeSe philip
Poetry

Falso Cognato

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Poetry

Wild Garlic

Jen Hadfield
Poetry

Flip Screen

Jen Hadfield

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Poetry

Lester Young and Billie Holiday talk to each other. Credit: Lester Young and Billie Holiday, public domain.
Poetry

Deep Song

Cornelius Eady
July 1, 2019
Raphaelle Peale, Still Life with Cake, 1818
poetry

Easier Done

Constantine Contogenis
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
poetry

Eight Radioactive Tableaux (with Venus and Adonis)

Justin Quinn
July 1, 2019
Poetry

Eleanoir and Huff’s New Blues and Gospel

Nathaniel Mackey
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Poetry

Finalists

Geoffrey Hill
July 1, 2019
Men play pool in a bar at night. The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888.
Poetry

Five Prose Poems

Charles Baudelaire
July 1, 2019
A bronze sculpture of a boy. Augusta Savage, Gamin, 1929.
poetry

Four Days

Cornelius Eady
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
poetry

Loose Talk

Katie Donovan
July 1, 2019
A rorschach inkblot. Ninth blot of the Rorshach inkblot test by Hermann Rorschach, 1921.
poetry

My Enemy

David Danoff
July 1, 2019
A shadow of a face underneath water. Philosophy by Gustav Klimt, 1907.
poetry

Oracle

Warren Slesinger
July 1, 2019