i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s drop

The poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, ...

and it was in these bare sands / that you fell, / beloved.

When John Baglow's partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of ...

take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack.

A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In ...

Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything.

Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation ...

Here the long edge / of town Low / winter fog / … My breath / my offering We are / our bodies burning

Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely ...

Injury the guide explained / is what / guides explain

Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. This unauthorized chronicle ...

For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest air

In New Songs for OrpheusJohn Reibetanz updates Ovid’s ...

the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers all

In Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and ...

a keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a child

With vivid imagery and endless compassion for her subjects, ...

Here we stand between one breath / and death asking to be light.

What happens when someone we love dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss.

In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies ...