The Limits of What We Can Do
By Natalie Eilbert
Poetry: “Neutrality is a privilege. The rocks we throw / ourselves onto are a privilege.”
The Poem of Self
By Stanley Moss
Poetry: “Looking back, God is a verb, adjective, / article, contraction, infinitive, any part of speech.”
Previous Issues
Selfie
By Frieda Hughes
Poetry: “As a commitment for life on the Internet / Repeated, retweeted.”
Destination
By Hester Knibbe
Poetry: “Then the women pushed a daughter inside. / Learn to be hot, they said.”
A Threshold
By Don Paterson
Poetry: “This place again. It’s where / I wake up and recall I have no daughter.”
Encyclopædia Britannica
By Jane Shore
Poetry: “But you couldn’t pick a fight with the Encyclopædia Britannica. / Even saying its name upped my I.Q.”
The Snowdrops
By Michael Longley
Poetry: “Candlemas bells / For soldiers who come here on leave / And rest against rusty railings.”
Some Say
By Maureen N. McLane
Poetry: “Some say a host / of horsemen, a horizon / of ships under sail / is most beautiful.”
The Small Country
By Ellen Bass
Poetry: “What is the word that fuses this freshness / with the pity of having missed it?”
Dissolution
By Eileen Myles
Poetry: “And I just hand you this damp / coloring book / I say there. That’s my model.”