These poems and the essay following will appear in the anthology On the Endless Horizon: A Poet’s Field Guide to Literary Translation, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2014.
Category: New Work
Poetry: 2012 Omnidawn Open Contest Finalists
This month we feature new work from the five finalists for the 2012 Omnidawn Open Contest: Emily Abendroth — Exclosures Jenny Drai — Visitors, Cavaliers Craig Dworkin — Alkali Brandon Lussier — Mary Doll Strings Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer — Clarkston…
Poetry: E. Tracy Grinnell
from All the Rage THE HORROR OF APARTMENTS Watchwords of another life, fade one into the other. In my own dream. In captivity. If desire to escape, could escape but it builds around it in sequences of robes, bougainvillea chambers…
Poetry: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The Easement The street’s black with drifted snow & it’s what’s to fold night around, the hunger of the motel sleeper the entaxied talker searching for a good curb to piss at in shadow— some laughter under owls, some old…
Poetry and Translation: Wong Yoo-Chong
One 一 Trading in “Cosmic Opulence” for “One?” My grandfather did just that by dropping the name given to him by his father in favor of “Emulating One,” the name he composed for himself, when he snipped off his braided…
Poetry: Renee Ashley
[because I am the shore I want to be the sea]
Poetry: Molly Bendall
Spectacle His rumble, the way he tears at the carrion, then leaves a hive for listening. Tusks bang and glimmer in the sunlight. Can’t stoop to interpretation. I press my mascaraed face to the fence and see my relation— he’s mangey,…
Poetry: Lisa Fishman
from 24 Pages The frog kite flips over itself makes a loop of itself Recall tying a chair to a kite & sitting there for it to fly Migration patterns askew in the hot March blue herons also pass over…
Poetry: Brian Mornar
from FIREBIRD NOTEBOOK (2) May 27 The sky is dotted with bright stars. As I just wrote the word “star,” I almost forgot what a star is. They become bright as the eyes adjust to the dark. I am not used to this kind of…
Poetry: Noah Eli Gordon
For Expression Sing a song of utterance. I mutter to you. Sing a song of expression. —Gertrude Stein For the feel in my palm of an apple fresh from the market Against the viscous transparent skin of marketing For the…