Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Poetry
Come, Thief
COME, THIEF IS A LARGE and compassionate gift to the reader. Such a gift comes at great cost,…
Radial Symmetry
FOR KATHERINE LARSON, science is a lover she embraces and betrays. The poems in her first collection,…
Lucky Fish
EDITORS like dark poems better than joyful ones, I have heard. Or, some writers may believe, cynicism…
Beautiful Country
THE OTHER WEEKEND, on a plane from Denver to Minneapolis, my sixteen-month-old son sleeping fitfully…
World Enough
EACH DAY I READ the e-mailed Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Most of the featured poems…
The Common Man
IN KENTUCKY, the muse might be an older boy who says, “Take ye a slash / o’ this—hit’ll…
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
TONY HOAGLAND is not a poet who sees himself as above anything. Rather, he is inside it all: “I…
Black Nature
“JUST IMAGINE / No dead birds because of / No dead trees because of / No dead people because…
Sestets
THE POEMS in Wright’s astonishing nineteenth collection of poetry serve as a loyal lighthouse…
Wayfare
“YOU WILL REMEMBER afterward / that you were simple at first, / two-dimensional, static, unremarkable.”…
