Section
Poetry
New poems, sequences, and translations. Work that attends to form as a political and ethical question.
Cosmic Looping contemporary
The dreams of youth, the lists of fairness and justice, stand beside thunder, leaves, animals, and children. Through every turn the poem keeps one instruction: never believe, never trust, but never give up or give in.
ReadIsland Confessions contemporary
Three poems: Angel, Beaver, and Ni’ihau expose the island as an ideological machine where colonial violence, exclusion, and dispossession are transformed into myth, mystery, and picturesque lore. What looks like geography becomes a technology of power, revealing how history is buried beneath the stories we tell about place.
ReadGot My Mojo Workin’ and East Broadway Rundown contemporary
Passage is administered so that conquest and the canon become one movement. The tariff marks every crossing; what it cannot price keeps a time of its own.
ReadMidnight Hammer and Other Poems contemporary
Five poems: Midnight Hammer, Sizing Up Utopia, The Starter Cord, Larking in a Cafe, and Into the Arena.
ReadPortrait of Thelonious Monk as a Puritan in a Haptic Capotain contemporary
A late-night search for a rhythm section, a quarter note, and a haptic capotain.
ReadTale of Pearl-Grain Rice and Other Poems contemporary
Five poems: Tale of Pearl-Grain Rice, Rescuing a Brother-in-Law, Picture This, No Ethnic Identity, and Deflation.
ReadHerself and Other Poems contemporary
Five poems: Herself, Ode to a Utility Infielder, Parting Such Orderly Sweet, From Nebula #46, and Evening | Toned | Wings.
ReadUnder My Umbrella and Other Poems contemporary
Four poems: Under My Umbrella, Musical Treetops, Valley Mist, and Low Spots.
ReadBody in Total Time contemporary
Three poems: Body in Total Time, For Alejandra Pizarnik, and Postscript to He Resigns.
ReadLetter to Rwanda and Other Poems contemporary
Letter to Rwanda, Lady-flute’s cantilena, In the palm of her hand, and excerpts from In Search of a Face.
Readfrom The Fecundating Dread Rotational Cluster contemporary
Poems from The Fecundating Dread Rotational Cluster, a Hinge kinetic densifying the particle ‘dread.’
ReadOn the Clock and Other Poems contemporary
Five poems: On the Clock, Tweed Cap, An Olive or a Purple Haze, Emoticon, and The Making of Herdsmen.
ReadAstronomical Winter and Other Poems contemporary
Five poems: Astronomical Winter, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow and Badger Teapot, The Last Hotel, Candy House of Compassion, and The Empress of Void Leads the Parade.
ReadFrom So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain contemporary
From the forthcoming book So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain. Translated by Kurt Beals and Aimee Chor.
ReadSons of Belial earlier voice
Written in 1920. A poem of the mob across history — from Gilead to Alexandria, from Rosa Luxemburg to Missouri.
ReadTasting the Earth earlier voice
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth — a poem of grief turned toward the ancient heart of the world.
ReadFour Poems earlier voice
Four poems: the collapse of Kali Yuga, New India, the liberation of women, and praise of the Goddess of Learning.
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