A guide for making fragments from diaries

Joshua Beckman’s new book, A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, gathers poems found or made in various forms—chapter summaries of non-existent books, body poems, an assemblage of his mother’s remarks while painting his portrait, lists of thoughts and things (one of all the uninvited animals...

Barbarossa

Floral mutter

A math teacher living 1,000 miles from the literary center of Beijing offers daring, restless nature sonnets, free verse, and genre-bending prose poems.

Rain inscription

Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting.

The casanova chronicles

Voices chafe against circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing with sometimes humorous, sometimes disasterous results.

Transitions

New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin). Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to ...