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mother hopes to tell me more about

tree-root trails, melodies woven out of winds

roaring down our ricefields on winter afternoons

& the soft pattering of a dying fawn’s hooves.

—Abhijit Sarmah in the May issue of POETRY.
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做夢 漿果在尖叫
告別鄉愁的盡頭是早晨
找到鑰匙孔的真理

in a dream berries are screaming
bidding farewell to the end of homesickness is morning
finding the truth of the keyhole

—Bei Dao (trans. by Jeffrey Yang) in the May issue of POETRY.
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Where are all the children?
The tunnel howls. The Mother
reads to them, timetables and maps.
If they could only be deciphered she could go
and see them, wherever they live now.

—Martha Sprackland in the May issue of POETRY.
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At thirty-four I have ticked every box I set out to.
My mistake was thinking I could be loved
in little white squares.

—Elizabeth Metzger (@anelizabeth2) in the May issue of POETRY.
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The more the story gets retold, the more goes

missing. A mother to only the imaginary.

—Kush Thompson (vaseline dion.) in the May issue of POETRY.
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Is it the wind that shakes inside me, too?—
I should know. Weeks or a day. Watching the quiver

in my hands.

—David Baker in the May issue of POETRY.
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I was born happy, not knowing about what.
Like Ahab’s hat, I ought to be shrunk
to a speck and dropped by beak into the sea.

—Chris Forhan in the current issue of POETRY.
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Cheer on all 9 of these incredible finalists, and find our who will become our 2024 National Champion!

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Let my memory-depleted memory

preserve all this joy:
restricted fragile materials.
Who can stop me?

—Catherine Barnett in the May 2024 issue of POETRY.
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Nothing waters the bole,
the stone wastes nothing.
Speech could not cobble the swamp,
And so you dance for a brighter silence.

—Paul Auster (1947–2024)

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#PoetryIsForLife and spring days that shouldn’t feel like summer Year 4, Day 29: “Avenue of Plane Trees” by Jodie Hollander in the latest Poetry Foundation magazine

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Melvin [Dixon] was a vivacious man—one of the most alive people I’ve ever known—and had a wonderful blend of cosmopolitan erudition, blazing humor, and down-home wisdom.

—Cyrus Cassells Cyrus Cassells in the April issue of POETRY.
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Walker mingles washes of watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite to create a series that calls forth a past at once mythological and real, ancient and contemporary.

—Curator Katie Geha on the Kara Walker folio in the April issue of POETRY.
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fortschrittsschlacke. eine parallel-

welt, die dich machtvoll anzieht, in beschlag nimmt,

the ash of progress, some proxy

world that forcefully attracts you, holds you,

——Jan Wagner (trans. by David Keplinger) in the April issue of POETRY.
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This woman is no different. Look:
her gaze plunged into echo, mid-
night specter looking back, black.

—Krista Franklin Krista Franklin in the April issue of POETRY, after Kara Walker’s “Blue,” 2020.
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