"The Man in the Mirror" by Mark Strand is really so amazing. A poem I read and reread always.

Another poem from The Iowa Review

my my, this is stunning

I'm in love with this. When an interviewer for The Paris Review asked the poet James Wright (1927-1980) about the process of creation, he gave the wildest answer ever:

This poem is everything. 'Such Silence' by Mary Oliver

About 6 months on this one I think.

Grateful to have a poem in the latest issue of the The Iowa Review. Gratitude to the editors and thankful to be in such terrific company with Kathryn Nuernberger, C. L. O'Dell, and so many others! ⭐️

“If anyone had told me then that this was childhood, I would have said no; it was just hours and days, endless hours, the sweet days of June” Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanaugh

the way we remember in one whole piece darkness

HORSES The way their eyes stare, sometimes I wonder if we are really hollow inside. —Victoria Chang

Robert Duncan

solitude communicates like hearts do

Huge thanks to The Sun magazine for taking this poem.

Yehuda Amichai

Bly

It will always be the poems I don’t get and will never get that I love the most.