“A dark theme keeps me here” A poem by Theodore Roethke.

“The rapid music fills in the spaces of the leaves.” A poem by James Schuyler.

“Most of all I miss you playing in the five-cent booth.” A poem by Sabrina Orah Mark.

“In field there is no time at all” A poem by Erin Belieu.

“Chairs are ruined for you.” Part of a poem by Lee Ann Brown.

“Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world” A poem by John Berryman.

“In this quiet made of mirrors and light” A poem by David Tucker.

“The knife in your hand brimming rain” A poem by Nick Flynn.

“What you want will burn you.” A poem by Jean Monahan.

“The tips of my fingers are stinging” A poem by Audre Lorde.

“I am a water-logged ledger dripping testimony” A poem by Cate Peebles (from the new issue of PostcardLit)

“This is a poem about ice cream.” (And it is also a poem by Andrew Motion.)

“Like railroad tracks that cut the bracken” A poem by Lisa Williams.

“A human being without old age is not a possibility”A fragment of Sappho’s, translated by Anne Carson.

“& blue lips, like waving grasses” A poem by Michael Joseph Walsh

“Guess the question. Dream the answer.” A poem by Harryette Mullen.

“Yes, it is hard, but there are gifts.” A poem by Betsy Sholl.

“Between the heaves of storm.” A poem by Emily Dickinson.

“I make myself no image” - getting local in time and space with a poem by Bernadette Mayer.

“The poetry of the earth never ceases ceasing.” A poem by Dan Beachy-Quick.