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Back to the Swing
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for Ella
“Now let’s pretend I’m a pink dog with wings
Who rescues Pop.” You make a whirring sound
For your brave mission, high on the ol...
Lulu
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My dog has habits now ingrained
because I never properly trained
her not to pull and yank my shoulder;
while she’s still wild, I’m much older...
On the Ideology of Lettrisme Considered as an Apotropaic System
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Amor itself is morning—every blade
of grass dew-covered, an idea unsevered
from song, whose light pursues the fleeing shade
in every nook to...
Floating World
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Who took that photograph: a group
Of nuns, the origami folds
Of their white headdress from above
It seems that only light upholds?
S...
Living Will
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Pneumonia shoulders, scooping for air or splayed,
erode the profile. He could barely walk, then dress,
then sit. It goes that way. They call it p...
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Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.
Scholar, translator and poet living in Paris.
David Lehman wrote the 1991 book "Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man." His books of poetry include "Ithaca" (February 2026) and "When a Woman Loves a Man." He is the editor of "The Oxford Book of American Poetry."
Pedant. (Also the author of six books of poems, with a seventh forthcoming. Winner of a couple of prizes. Fond of mouthing off about other people's poems.)
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022). He has translated and edited many volumes of prose and verse, and his work has appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere.
I am an independent writer and poet.
Midge Goldberg received the 2026 New Criterion Poetry Prize for The Whole Gray Lake's a Sky. Her second book, Snowman's Code, received the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award. She is also the editor of Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press).
Posts at https://111-words.ghost.io/
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Stephen Edgar is an Australian poet living in Sydney. He has published fourteen collections of poetry, the most recent being Imaginary Archive (Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, 2025). His website is www.stephenedgar.com.au
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